All Shook Up Musical at the Morgan-Wixson Theater through April 2nd, 2016
Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre is proud to present
ALL SHOOK UP
Inspired by and featuring the songs of ELVIS PRESLEY ® Book by JOE DIPIETRO
March 5th through April 2nd, 2016
Inspired by and featuring the songs of ELVIS PRESLEY ® Book by JOE DIPIETRO
March 5th through April 2nd, 2016
Santa Monica, CA – All Shook Up is a 2004 American jukebox musical with Elvis Presley music and with a book by Joe Dipietro. The story is based on William Shakespeare’s 1602 play Twelfth Night. According to writer Joe Dipietro, the process of writing involved hearing these songs in a different way. Elvis sang them so distinctly and so brilliantly that they didn’t want an Elvis imitator up there. They wanted to put the songs in a new story and have them heard in a different way. When you have all these disparate songs, you need a concept to hang your hat on. The bottom line with Elvis’s music is that it makes a lot of people very happy, even 50 years after it was recorded. And Dipietro thought, what other type of entertainment form does that? And that’s when he came up with the Shakespeare comedies, which are very much about love and finding your joy, marriage, passion and all the good stuff of life. Elvis was a white guy singing rhythm and blues music for the first time, which really helped R&B cross over to the mainstream, or to white America. Elvis took rhythm and blues music and really helped to popularize it, and Dipietro thought they really needed to stay true to where that music came from, which is obviously the African American community, especially in the South. So that’s very much why it takes place in 1955. In All Shook Up, this music unleashes the uptightness of these people in small town America and certainly applies to inter-racial dating and same-sex dating. It’s all about loving someone no matter who they are. That’s what the show’s about. Nell Teare directs for the first time at the Morgan-Wixson. Nell began performing with her mother as a child, and she attended The High School for Performing and Visual Arts and then went on to study Musical Theatre at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Nell has performed on many stages in NYC, LA and abroad. She collaborates with choreographer Kristi Slager and musical director Anne Gesling.
Santa Monica’s Morgan–Wixson Theatre
2627 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405 310–828–7519 www.morgan–wixson.org
JUST THE FACTS WHAT:
ALL SHOOK UP Inspired by and featuring the songs of ELVIS PRESLEY ® Book by JOE DIPIETRO
ALL SHOOK UP Inspired by and featuring the songs of ELVIS PRESLEY ® Book by JOE DIPIETRO
WHEN:
March 5th through April 2nd, 2016. Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm.
March 5th through April 2nd, 2016. Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm.
WHERE:
Morgan-Wixson Theatre, 2627 Pico Boulevard (Pico @ 27th Street), Santa Monica, CA 90405 Accessible by Big Blue Bus #7 and #8.
Morgan-Wixson Theatre, 2627 Pico Boulevard (Pico @ 27th Street), Santa Monica, CA 90405 Accessible by Big Blue Bus #7 and #8.
HOW:
Reserved seats start at $28 online at www.morgan-wixson.org or call the theatre box office at 310-828-7519.
Reserved seats start at $28 online at www.morgan-wixson.org or call the theatre box office at 310-828-7519.
WHO:
Directed By: Nell Teare Musical Directed By: Anne Gesling Choreographed By: Nell Teare & Kristi Slager Produced By: Larry Gesling & Meredith Wright
Directed By: Nell Teare Musical Directed By: Anne Gesling Choreographed By: Nell Teare & Kristi Slager Produced By: Larry Gesling & Meredith Wright
WEBSITE:www.morgan-wixson.org