Overview
This crowd-pleasing musical is inspired by and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley®. It’s 1955, and into a square little town in a square little state rides a guitar-playing young man who changes everything and everyone he meets in this hip-swiveling, lip-curling musical fantasy that’ll have you jumpin’ out of your blue suede shoes with such classics as “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”
ALL SHOOK UP Younger@Part® is the authorised 30 minute edition of the Broadway musical for primary schools and youth theatres. Through a series of workshops with industry professionals and actual kids, Younger@Part® musicals are tailor-made for younger actors. Each Younger@Part® title keeps the spirit of the original Broadway show intact while making it as easy as possible to bring to your stage or classroom share. Songs and scenes have been edited for time and content with song keys changed when necessary. Every effort has been made to maximize the number of speaking roles and allow for an expandable ensemble/chorus.
Your Younger@Part® performance license package comes complete with Performance Tracks, Guide Vocal Tracks, Director’s Guide, 30 Student Scripts and more.
Casting & Production
Casting
NATALIE HALLER – Although she’s a teenager, she’s an excellent mechanic. She’s much more at home in greasy overalls than a dress.
CHAD – A great-lookin’, motorbike-ridin’, guitar-playin’, leather-jacketed roustabout.
SYLVIA – The no-nonsense owner of SYLVIA’S HONKY-TONK CAFE.
LORRAINE — Sylvia’s daughter.
DENNIS – An awkward young man. He aspires to be a dentist.
SANDRA – The beautiful, intellectual caretaker of the town’s museum.
MAYOR MATILDA HYDE – The town’s very conservative mayor.
Flexible casting and featured roles in the large ensemble of townspeople
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.
MALE & FEMALE ENSEMBLE play an assortment of TOWNSPEOPLE and are featured throughout the show.
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.
Music & Materials
Younger@Part® Materials Include:
Director’s Script – 1
Cast Script & Vocal Books – 30
Piano/Vocal Score – 2
Guide Vocals CD – 1
Performance Tracks CD – 1
*Additional materials and resources may be added a la carte.
Credits
ALL SHOOK UP
Younger@Part®
Inspired by and featuring the songs of ELVIS PRESLEY® Book by JOE DIPIETRO
Young@Part® Edition Adapted by Marc Tumminelli
Young@Part® Edition originally produced at Broadway Workshop in New York City.
Originally workshopped at Hoboken Children’s Theater Hoboken, NJ, Chase Leyner, Director
Media
Upcoming Productions
Thomas Russell Junior School
Barton Under Needwood, Staffordshire, UK
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