Photo Flash: Great Balls of Fire! Get a First Look at Paramount Theatre's MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
By: BWW
News Desk Sep. 16, 2017
Paramount Theatre is tuned up for its rollicking 2017-18 BroadwaySeries opener Million Dollar Quartet, the wildly popular rock and roll musical that played more than 2,500 performances in Chicago. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Travel back in time to Memphis's Sun Records recording studio on December 4, 1956, when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins played together their first and only time and created an explosive album that has yet to be matched. Million Dollar Quartet tells that story with all the raw energy and monumental talent everyone has come to expect from these music giants.
Paramount Artistic Director Jim Corti, the man responsible for the past two Jeff Award-winning Best Musicals (Large), Les Misérables and West Side Story, stages Paramount's rockin' opener.
Playing the Quartet are Adam Wesley Brown as Carl Perkins, Kavan Hashemian as Elvis Presley, Gavin Rohrer as Jerry Lee Lewis and Bill Scott Sheets as Johnny Cash, with Nicholas Harazin as Sam Phillips, Zach Lentino as Brother Jay, Courtney Mack as Dyanne and Scott Simon as Fluke.
The production team is Kory Danielson, music director; Trent Stork, associate director; Ethan Deppe, associate music director; Kevin Depinet, scenic design; Sally Dolembo, costume design; Jesse Klug, lighting design; Adam Rosenthal, sound designer; Katie Cordts, wig, hair and makeup design; Amanda Relaford, properties design; Susan Gosdick, dialect coach; Maggie O'Donnell, stage manager; and Matthew McMullen, assistant stage manager.
Don't miss Paramount's high-spirited, nostalgic new take on the three-time Tony Award nominated musical, featuring some of the biggest and best songs of all time like "Peace in the Valley," "Blue Suede Shoes," "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line," "Hound Dog" and "Great Balls of Fire."
The show is currently in previews for a press opening tomorrow, Saturday, September 16 at 8 p.m. Performances continue through October 29: Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Thursday at 7 p.m.; Friday at 8 p.m.;Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Single tickets are $36 to $64. Million Dollar Quartet is rated PG. For information, go to ParamountAurora.com, call (630) 896-6666, or stop by the Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd. in Aurora.
Photo Credit: Liz Lauren
Adam Wesley Brown as Carl Perkins
Chicago set designer Kevin Depinet has recreated Sam Phillips's original Sun Records studio in Memphis - where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins played together their first and only time on December 4, 1956 - for Paramount Theatre's MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
Great Balls of Fire! Gavin Rohrer plays Jerry Lee Lewis
Adam Wesley Brown plays Carl Perkins, Kavan Hashemian plays Elvis Presley and Bill Scott Sheets is Johnny Cash
Kavan Hashemian plays Elvis Presley and Adam Wesley Brown (right) is Carl Perkins
Courtney Mack as Dyanne, Adam Wesley Brown as Carl Perkins, Kavan Hashemian as Elvis Presley and Bill Scott Sheets as Johnny Cash
Nicholas Harazin plays 'the father of rock and roll,' Sam Phillips, seen here under the classic image of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, shot at Phillips's Sun Records studio on December 4, 1956
Bill Scott Sheets plays Johnny Cash
Chicago set designer Kevin Depinet has recreated Sam Phillips's original Sun Records studio in Memphis - where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins played together their first and only time on December 4, 1956 - for Paramount Theatre's MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
(front) Kavan Hashemian as Elvis Presley, with (back from left) Courtney Mack as Dyanne, Bill Scott Sheets as Johnny Cash, Zach Lentino as Brother Jay, Scott Simon as Fluke and Adam Wesley Brown as Carl Perkins
Gavin Rohrer as Jerry Lee Lewis, Kavan Hashemian as Elvis Presley, Adam Wesley Brown as Carl Perkins and Bill Scott Sheets as Johnny Cash
Gavin Rohrer as Jerry Lee Lewis, Kavan Hashemian as Elvis Presley, Adam Wesley Brown as Carl Perkins and Bill Scott Sheets as Johnny Cash
Great Balls of Fire! Gavin Rohrer as Jerry Lee Lewis leaps from his piano
Courtney Mack as Dyanne and Kavan Hashemian as Elvis Presley
Gavin Rohrer as Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Scott Sheets as Johnny Cash, Kavan Hashemian as Elvis Presley and Adam Wesley Brown as Carl Perkins
Gavin Rohrer as Jerry Lee Lewis, Adam Wesley Brown as Carl Perkins, Kavan Hashemian as Elvis Presley, Bill Scott Sheets as Johnny Cash, Courtney Mack as Dyanne and Nicholas Harazin as Sam Phillips
Bill Scott Sheets as Johnny Cash, Adam Wesley Brown as Carl Perkins and Kavan Hashemian as Elvis Presley
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