PORTSMOUTH – As part of the 2015-16 season, the Southern Ohio Performing Arts Association and Shawnee State University present the Million Dollar Quartet at 7:30 p.m. on Mon., March 14, at the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts.
The production dramatizes many events of the day four of the most talented musicians, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, showed up at Sam Phillips’s Sun Recording Studio for a memorable jam session in December of 1956.
The production features iconic songs by these legends, including “Blue Suede Shoes,” “That’s All Right,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Walk the Line,” “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On,” and “Hound Dog.”
Unlike many Broadway musicals, the Million Dollar Quartet performers need to be able to play musical instruments, such as the guitar and/or piano, on top of acting, singing and moving like the well-known musicians to pull off the show.
60 years later, the influences of that day’s event still live on in today’s musical world. Jacob Tolliver, a Portsmouth native, portrays Jerry Lee Lewis in the Las Vegas production of Million Dollar Quartet.
Tickets are $55 for the general public, $50 for seniors, $42 for SSU students, staff and faculty, and $20 for children under the age of 12. Upper tier seating available at discounted prices. Tickets and additional information are available at the McKinley Box Office in the VRCFA or by phone at 740.351.3600, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets can also be purchased online at Ticketmaster at http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/41868.
For more information on the Million Dollar Quartet, visit http://milliondollarquartetlive.com. To check out a trailer for Million Dollar Quartet, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFrJZj4ELdU&feature=youtu.be.
The Million Dollar Quartet performance is sponsored by the Southern Ohio Medical Center and Suncoke Energy/Haverhill Operations.
The 2015-16 SOPAA/SSU season is presented in support of the Ohio Arts Council, an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Portsmouth, OH, The SSU Development Foundation, the Martings Foundation and the Scioto Foundation.
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