“Million Dollar Quartet” is the debut production July 10-Dec. 29 in Paramount Theatre’s new Stolp Island Theatre in downtown Aurora.
The cast of “Million Dollar Quartet,” from left, Bill Scott Sheets , Christopher Wren , Garrett Forrestal and Alex Swindle take a stroll along the Fox River, right in front of Paramount Theatre’s new Stolp Island Theatre in downtown Aurora.
Stolp Island Theatre is the Paramount’s third live theater venue in downtown Aurora, along with the 165-seat Copley Theatre. With just 98 seats, the space is specifically designed for live theater, said Jim Corti, Photos of the performers and the history of Sun Studios will be included. Audiences will enter “Sun Studios” and sit on either side of the recording studio, Corti said. The action that occurred on Dec. 5, 1956, will take place right in the middle. That’s the night when music legends Presley, Cash, Lewis and Perkins were by happenstance in the same place at the same time and a quick-thinking sound engineer recorded one of the most historic jam sessions in rock ‘n’ roll history.
“Now, it’s like you’re really watching them play off each other,” he said. “They’re really superb artists. The musicianship is off the charts. It’s thrilling how they play and how they play off each other and sing these songs and capture this very authentic presentation of how we remember these songs.”“People love remembering these songs and where they were when they first heard them,” he said.
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