Casting Announced for Off-Broadway Production of Million Dollar Quartet

Casting has been announced for the upcoming off-Broadway incarnation of rockabilly musical Million Dollar Quartet, which played its final performance at the Nederlander Theatre on June 12, 2011 and will reopen on July 28 in its new home at New World Stages. The off-Broadway cast will feature original stars Eddie Clendening as Elvis Presley, Lance Guest at Johnny Cash and Robert Britton Lyons as Carl Perkins, with Quartet vets James Moye as record producer Sam Phillips, Victoria Matlock as Dyanne and David Abeles as Jerry Lee Lewis.

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 Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl 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.”

In addition to the New York production, Million Dollar Quartet is currently running at Chicago’s Apollo Theatre, where the show began life in 2008 on a stage producers noted is equal in size to the one the show will occupy at New World Stages. A London production is currently on view at the Noel Coward Theatre, and a national tour is set to launch in October.