Million Dollar Quartet (the Prof)

I'm sure some of you wonder if we've actually been doing any work at all, but we have a long weekend break starting today (Thursday).  We're taking advantage of it to see a couple of shows.  Last night we went to see "Million Dollar Quartet".  The show is about the day when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis all ended up at the Sun recording studios on the same day--and started to play together.  The sound man recognized that something special was happening and recorded a lot of it.

The show isn't exactly great drama nor is it especially accurate on the music (the original includes a lot of hymns and country that the guys seem to just enjoy doing together, and they rarely finish a song).  BUT the show is just a heck of a lot of fun with great music.  20 songs ranging from classics by the four guys to gospel greats to some covers of Chuck Berry and Little Richard.  What they do a great job of is capturing the essence of these young singers.  The guys playing Elvis and Jerry Lee were incredible, but all four were very good.  And the music had that raw, less produced sound that characterized early rock and roll.  And the songs were just fun.  It was all I could do not to get up and start dancing.  Hope's response was classic--about 3/4 of the way through she said "I guess you know I'm not going to be able to go to sleep tonight"  In truth, it wasn't easy for any of us.

Tonight is Mama Mia, so I'll probably let Teach write that up.