Million Dollar Quartet at The Kennedy Center

Million Dollar Quartet

The Kennedy Center
2700 F Street, NW Washington

Million Dollar Quartet is the smash hit Broadway musical, inspired by the true story of the famed recording session where Sam Phillips, the "Father of Rock ‘n' Roll," brought together Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. Don't miss Million Dollar Quartet DC.

Thru - Oct 6, 2013

Tuesdays: 7:30pm

Wednesdays: 7:30pm

Thursdays: 7:30pm

Fridays: 7:30pm

Saturdays: 1:30pm & 7:30pm

Sundays: 1:30pm & 7:30pm

Price: $59 - $120

Stage: Eisenhower Theater

Show Type: Musical

Running Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes with no intermission

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Washington Post - Highly Recommended

"... That’s all you can think, beholding the crazy-good vision of Elvis Presley currently gyrating around the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater stage. Cody Slaughter is a liquid Elvis, hips twisting and lip curling to perfection in “Million Dollar Quartet,” an enjoyably freewheeling re-creation of the impromptu 1956 jam session featuring Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis."

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- Nelson Pressley

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"... On a chilly night in December 1956, kismet brought together four music legends Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley for an incredible jam session that would live on in the history books. Million Dollar Quartet, directed by Signature Theatre’s Eric Schaeffer, is currently showing at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, and is the electrifying Tony-Award-winning musical inspired by that night."

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- Anne Tsang

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...It works simply because the music is, for the most part, fantastic—especially pseudo-Carl Perkins Robert Britton Lyons’ rangy, blasting guitar and pseudo-Jay Perkins Corey Kaiser’s fluid upright bass. Kelly Lamont, playing Presley’s girlfriend of the moment Dyanne, dilutes the testosterone a little with her vampy takes of “Fever” and “I Hear You Knocking.” The performance I saw featured Austin Cook, an understudy, as Lewis, and he was the most magnetic of the actor/musicans occupying the four faces of this early rock Mt. Rushmore."

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- Chris Klimek

Washingtonian - Highly Recommended

"...You don't have to be acquainted with their biographies or even be a long-time fan of their music (an energetic mix of gospel, country, R&B, and rock) to appreciate this show and the lasting impact these men had on American culture. The unlikely coming together of such talented artists in one place is what made the real "Million Dollar Quartet" (so dubbed by a newspaper article at the time about the get-together) so noteworthy. With this show comes another formidable union of performers and musical collaboration, but this time we're all invited into the intimate studio, too."

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- Gwendolyn Purdom

The Georgetowner - Highly Recommended

"...What's remarkable about this show is just how good the young musicians are-they're more musicians than actors at this stage. This realization leads you to see just how great that million dollar quartet really was, and why the music is laid so deeply in our veins-just as you recognize, beneath all the trivial contrivances in the show, what a great songwriter Irving Berlin was seeing "White Christmas" next door at the Opera House."

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- Gary Tischler

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

Do you know who wrote “Blue Suede Shoes”? I’ll give you a hint: it wasn’t Elvis Presley. No, that honor belongs to Carl Perkins. (known to all as Mr. Phillips), the founder and owner of Sun Records out of Memphis, TN., famously promised a Cadillac to the first musician on his label to score a hit. The natural assumption was Elvis Presley would end up with that car, and while Presley did perform “Blue Suede Shoes” on The Ed Sullivan Show, Perkins is the man who wrote it (thus the man to drive that Caddy).

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- Travis Andrews

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