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What may also do well is ‘Million Dollar Quartet‘ – a show inspired by the day in 1956 that Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins met at Sun Studios in Memphis and recorded together. It opened on Broadway this past weekend. And ‘Memphis‘ – another musical – was suggested to be the ‘Michael Bolton of musicals’ by the NYT reviewer, but the readers/viewers are giving it 4/5.

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Far, far from Broadway is a staged reading of “All Over Alabama, The Lamps Are Out” (an adaptation of “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”) in Winston-Salem.

…and this Autumn, a play called ‘The Nacirema Society‘ is opening at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival as part of their Southern Writers’ Project. The ASF describes it this way:

Every year since Emancipation, the Nacirema Society of Montgomery, Alabama introduces six elegant African-American debutants to a world of wealth, privilege and social responsibility. This year, at its 100th anniversary, with young love brewing, old flames simmering and national media attention on hand. . . what would dare to go awry?

Pearl Cleage, award winning playwright of Blues for an Alabama Sky and Flyin’ West, and New York Times best-selling author of Oprah book club selection What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, invites you into this glamorous world where folks still dress for dinner…