All Shook Up

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.