All Shook Up, the jukebox musical inspired by and featuring the tunes of Elvis Presley, will end its run at the Palace Theatre on September 25. At the time it closes, it will have played 33 preview and 213 regular performances.
All Shook Up tells the story of a small town girl Jenn Gambatese who dreams of hitting the open road, and the guitar-playing stranger Cheyenne Jackson who brings romance, rebellion and rock 'n' roll into her life. Joe DiPietro I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change wrote the libretto. In addition to Gambatese and Jackson, Jonathan Hadary, Leah Hocking, Curtis Holbrook, Nikki M. James, John Jellison, Alix Korey, Mark Price and Sharon Wilkins star.
After a developmental production at Goodspeed Musicals and a pre-Broadway tryout in Chicago, All Shook Up, directed by Christopher Ashley, opened at Broadway's Palace Theatre to mixed reviews on March 24. In his Broadway.com Review of the tuner, William Stevenson wrote: "By the end of this assemblage of Elvis Presley tunes linked by a silly plot, all I could think was: Look what Mamma Mia! hath wrought. Like the hugely successful ABBA musical, All Shook Up weaves a lightweight, love-related story around a bunch of mostly upbeat songs. The good news is that the frothy show rips off Mamma Mia! more successfully than the woeful Beach Boys tuner Good Vibrations does. The bad news is that the Elvis numbers often feel wedged into the dopey plot."
All Shook Up has long struggled at the box office. Last week it made just $312,943 and filled the Palace to only 45.47% capacity on average.
