Jukebox musicals are not this critic’s thing, but as they go, Million Dollar Quartet, now playing at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, is pretty good. The opening night audience didn’t go away disappointed.
Thanks are due to Tony Award-nominee Director Hunter Foster (who played Sun Records’ founder Sam Phillips in the original production on Broadway), the technical team at the Maltz who performed a show-saving move mid-song, and the insane and insanely over-the-top performance of Sean McGibbon as Jerry Lee Lewis.
The Maltz’s Producing Artistic Director/Chief Executive Andrew Kato knows his patrons and had no doubt that jukebox musical, or no jukebox musical, Million Dollar Quartet would be a guaranteed hit…