Shortly
before Christmas in 1956 in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley (Cody
Slaughter), Johnny Cash (Derek Keeling), Carl Perkins (Lee Ferris) and Jerry Lee Lewis (Martin Kaye) are joined by Jay Perkins (Chuck Zayas), Carl's brother,  drummer Fluke (Billy Shaffer) and
Dyanne (Kelly Lamont), Elvis's girlfriend are in the Sun studios owned
by Sam Phillips (Christopher Ryan Grant) who recognized and nurtured the
talent of the first three and was about to make a star of the fourth.

What
Sam didn't know was that he would be responsible for an historic, one
time only, jam session by the 4 with Cash, Presley and Perkins all about
to leave his recording studio for better, more lucrative contracts from
Columbia and RCA Victor.

The
audience listens in on 23 songs sung, danced and played by the cast,
doing 'the Devil's music' along with spirituals, songs that made them
famous and some songs they probably never sung as most of these were not
done at that session.

The
drama is provided by Carl Perkins having written "Blue Suede Shoes" and
his feeling that Elvis stole his moment when the latter sung it on the
Ed Sullivan show. There is also the relationship between Sam and the
boys with his being unaware that they won't be going along with his
plans.

All
the actors are musicians who play their own instruments and sing their
songs in the manner of the guys they are portraying without trying to
mimic them. All stand out in their individual numbers and harmonize in
the quartet numbers but it is Martin Kaye, as Lewis,  in the persona of
the original, who brings the humor, sometimes laugh out loud moments to
the show.

Grant
brings across his affection for the boys while Lamont, the only female
in the cast, does a good job on "Fever" but it is the quartet singing
"Hound Dog", "I Walk The Line", "My Babe", "Down By The Riverside" and
the other classics that get the audience moving, especially the
'concert' at the end when they put on those sequined dinner jackets and
get a "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" going on, that gets everyone out of
their seats.

The
book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrex provides the lead-ins to the
songs while the direction by Eric Schaeffer, based on the original by
Floyd Mutrx, is fluid and gives each of the cast their moments to shine.

Running
time: 1 hour and 45 minutes without an intermission Strobe lights and
theatre smoke/fog   Tour Dates for January: Tampa, East Lansing, Grand
Rapids and Detroit in Michigan.
Coming
to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami: Twyla
Tharp's Come Fly Away March 20-25, 2012 and Disney's The Lion King May
15- June10, 2012