All Shook Up: School Edition

Casting

NATALIE HALLER – A young woman and an excellent mechanic. She’s much more at home in greasy overalls than in a dress.

CHAD – A great-lookin’, motorcyclin’, guitar-playin’, leather-jacketed roustabout.

JIM HALLER – Natalie’s widowed father. Middle-aged and messy, he still longs for his wife.

SYLVIA – The no-nonsense, African-American owner of SYLVIA’S HONKY-TONK.

LORRAINE – Sylvia’s teenage daughter. Pretty, smart and a total romantic.

DENNIS – An awkward young man. He aspires to be a dentist.

MISS SANDRA – The beautiful, intellectual caretaker of the town’s museum.

MAYOR MATILDA HYDE – The town’s very conservative mayor.

DEAN HYDE – Matilda’s teenage son. He has spent his youth at military boarding schools, and he has never disobeyed his mother.

SHERIFF EARL – The law in town and a man of not many words. He loyally follows the Mayor wherever she goes.

HENRIETTA – A townsperson, one of NATALIE’S friends.

MALE & FEMALE ENSEMBLE play an assortment of TOWNSPEOPLE.

Note: The author has provided options to permit ALL SHOOK UP to be performed either by an ethnically diverse or ethnically homogeneous cast. The places where substitutions are permitted are enclosed and are followed by an asterisk*. The optional lines can be found in the ADDENDUM.

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

Reed 1, Reed 2, Reed 3, Trumpet 1, Trumpet 2, Trombone, Guitar 1, Guitar 2, Piano-Conductor (included in Rehearsal Set), Keyboard 2 (Organ), Drums, Bass

Please note, the Reed parts require each player to play several instruments. If your Reed players are not experienced in this method, you may wish to order additional Reed books to divide the parts among multiple players.

Credits

ALL SHOOK UP
School Edition

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.

NOTE: You must include the song credits, in accordance with the attached song credits list, in all programs. The names of the Elvis Presley and Bookwriter shall be equal in size, type, coloring, boldness, and prominence. No billing shall appear in type larger or more prominent than the billing of Elvis Presley and the Bookwriter except for the title of the play.