Musical - Million Dollar Quartet

Hi blogging world!  It's been a while! These boyfriends ;-)  they do take up so much time!  and then there was report writing...  But yesterday was the first day of the summer holidays - horray - and it's time to start getting caught up!

Thursday 2nd June - Half-term holidays

John and I had an exciting time planned going to an Adventure Stories evening at a pub in London to hear Dave Cornthwaite talk and to hear a phone conversation with Sarah Outen.  I suggested (surprise surprise!) that we try to see a matinee at the theatre.  I made a list of all the Thursday matinees - a surprisingly long list and on the journey there we managed to shorten the list down to 4 potentials (others included Shrek the Musical, Betty Blue Eyes and ...).  Million Dollar Quartet got lucky (or as I originally wrote in the post title Millionnaire Dollar Quartet) by being in the theatre closest to Leicester Square Tube Station where we got off and so was our first port of call.  I decided we would go to theatres and ask for their cheapest seats as opposed to doing a half price ticket booth as they tend to just be half price of the most expensive tickets.  They could do us £10 tickets, but they were restricted view apparently meaning if you leaned half way over you could see half the stage?!  But the next price bracket up was £15 for the balcony.  Sold!

While standing in line at the box office I read some of the info about the show.  It was set on one night, December 4th 1956, when four rock and roll legends had a jam session at sun records.  We returned wandered round London and returned to watch the show and were told they weren't opening the balcony and our tickets had been upgraded to the Stalls - cool!  The audience mostly seemed to have been there in 1956 and there was a lot of good shoulder bopping and even singing started in one song then seemed to continue to the end of the show!

It was a really fun show.  I didn't know all that many songs but I did know some.  The actors/musicians seemed great to me, playing it all live  John and I were eager to google about the event afterwards to find out how much was real.  I did cry at one point, when they recreated a photo taken on the night and then showed the original photo on a big screen.  There was a great encore bit and a lady in front of us got up looking as if she was leaving, but went to dance in the aisle instead and Elvis sang one of his encore songs to her which I liked.  Then Jerry Lee Lewis said something about God commanding us to dance so the audience got up and I loved that!  We bought the CD afterwards and have had many a car journey with it!