Overview
This crowd-pleasing musical is inspired by and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley®. It’s 1955, and into a square little town in a square little state rides a guitar-playing young man who changes everything and everyone he meets in this hip-swiveling, lip-curling musical fantasy that’ll have you jumpin’ out of your blue suede shoes with such classics as “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”
Casting & Production
Casting
NATALIE HALLER — Early 20’s, a mechanic.
CHAD — 20’s, a great-lookin’, motorcycling, guitar-playing, leather-jacketed roustabout.
JIM HALLER — mid 40’s-50’s, Natalie’s widowed father.
SYLVIA — mid 40’s, the no-nonsense, African-American owner of SYLVIA’S HONKY-TONK.
LORRAINE — Sylvia’s 16 year-old daughter.
DENNIS — a young, awkward, aspiring dentist.
MISS SANDRA — the beautiful, intellectual caretaker of the town’s museum.
MAYOR MATILDA HYDE — mid 40’s-50’s, the town’s conservative mayor.
DEAN HYDE — Matilda’s 16 year-old son. He has grown up at a military boarding school.
SHERIFF EARL — mid 40’s-50’s, the law in town. A man of not many words.
CHORUS
Opportunities for flexible casting in the expandable ensemble.
Setting
The Place
A small you-never-heard-of-it town somewhere in the Midwest
The Time
A twenty-four hour period, during the summer of 1955.
Orchestral Information
12 Musicians
Piano/Conductor (Keyboard 1), Keyboard 2, Reed 1 (Flute, Alto Sax), Reed 2 (Clarinet, Tenor Sax), Reed 3 (Bass Clarinet, Baritone Sax), Trumpet 1 (Trumpet, Flugelhorn), Trumpet 2 (Trumpet, Flugelhorn), Trombone, Guitar 1 (Electric, Telecaster), Guitar 2 (Acoustic, Electric), Bass (Acoustic, Electric), Drums
Credits
ALL SHOOK UP
Inspired by and featuring the songs of ELVIS PRESLEY®
Book by JOE DIPIETRO
Originally Produced on Broadway by Jonathan Pollard, Bernie Kukoff, Clear Channel Entertainment, Harbor Entertainment, Miramax Films, Bob & Harvey Weinstein, Stanley Buchthal, Eric Falkenstein, Nina Essman/Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Jean Cheever, Margaret Cotter, in association with Barney Rosenzweig, Meri Krassner, FGRW Investments, Karen Jason, Phil Ciasullo Conard. Originally produced for Goodspeed Musicals, Michael P. Price, Executive Producer, Sue Frost, Associate Producer.
Sets Props & Costumes
Sets & Props
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Media
- Jailhouse Rock
- Love Me Tender
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Roustabout
- One Night With You
- C'mon Everybody
- Follow That Dream
- Hound Dog/Teddy Bear
- Teddy Bear Dance
- That's All Right
- Devil in Disguise
- It's Now or Never
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Don't Be Cruel
- Let Yourself Go
- Can't Help Falling in Love
- All Shook Up
- It Hurts Me
- A Little Less Conversation
- The Power of Love
- I Don't Want To
- There's Always Me
- If I Can Dream
- Fools Fall in Love
- Burning Love
- C'Mon Everybody Encore