Pop Icon and Broadway Vet Darlene Love Will Join Million Dollar Quartet For One Night Only

Pop music icon Darlene Love will sit in with the Broadway’s Million Dollar Quartet for one night only on December 9. She will join Eddie Clendening (as Elvis Presley), Lance Guest (as Johnny Cash), Levi Kreis (as Jerry Lee Lewis), Rob Lyons (as Carl Perkins), Hunter Foster (as Sun Records’ Sam Phillips) and Elizabeth Stanley (Dyanne) on stage for a special performance during the show’s finale.

Love has appeared on Broadway in Hairspray, Leader of the Pack, Carrie and Grease, but she is best known for her recording career. Beginning in 1962, her string of hit singles includes "He's a Rebel," "Da Doo Ron Ron," "He's Sure the Boy I'm Going to Marry" and "Christmas Baby Please Come Home." Among her other notable credits are playing Danny Glover's wife in the Lethal Weapon movies and appearing in the musical Me and Mrs. Jones at the Prince Music Theatre. A feature film based on her autobiography, My Name Is Love, is expected to be released in 2011.

Inspired by the famed December 4, 1956, recording session that brought together four rock icons, Million Dollar Quartet recreates the historic day in the Memphis Sun Records studio when Presley, Cash, Lewis and Perkins took part in an impromptu jam session. The show includes some of the actual songs that were performed on the day as well as standards for the quartet including “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Who Do You Love?,” “Great Balls of Fire,” “I Walk the Line,” “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On.”