My Broadway Review

Are you looking to looking to buy some theater tickets before the end of the summer? There is a cavalcade of wonderful productions currently on Broadway and on tour. Theater fans are buzzing over new shows like Memphis, Come Fly Away, American Idiot, and Rock of Ages, while shows like Wicked, The Lion King, Jersey Boys, and Chicago continue to pack them in at every performance. The action of Off-Broadway is just as exiting with the always entertaining Blue Man Group playing at the Astor Place Theater, a pulse-pounding production of Stomp running at the Orpheium Theater, and the foul-mouthed puppets of Avenue Q making audience laugh nightly at Stage Three at the New World Stages. There are productions of Jersey Boys, Billy Elliot, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, A Chorus Line, Grease, Hair Spray, Legally Blonde, South Pacific, Rent, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, and Mamma Mia are all touring the United States this year. Go see a show!

The story of the 1956 jam session involving Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley has made it all the way to Broadway. The Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott written musical, Million Dollar Quartet, has leaped from resounding success in Daytona Beach, Seattle, and Chicago to Broadway’s Nederlander Theater. The show bases around the four performers meeting at Sam Phillips’ Sun Studios and the performers break out renditions of “Blue Suede Shoes”, “Great Balls of Fire”, “Folsom Prison Blues”, and many more. Million Dollar Quartet was up for three Tony Awards, and actor Levi Kreis won a Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance as Jerry Lee Lewis. The musical taps into the careers of the four performers who want on to help define the musical genres of rock ‘n roll, country, rockabilly, and honky tonk. Their is still a troupe performing the musical at The Apollo Theater in Chicago.