Memphis
- Music
Overview
Memphis is set in the places where rock and roll was born in the 1950s: the seedy nightclubs, radio stations and recording studios of the musically-rich Tennessee city. With an original score, it tells the fictional story of DJ Huey Calhoun, a good ole' local boy with a passion for R&B music and Felicia Farrell, an up-and-coming black singer that he meets one fateful night on Beale Street. Despite the objections of their loved ones (Huey's close-minded mama and Felicia's cautious brother, a club owner), they embark on a dangerous affair. As their careers rise, the relationship is challenged by personal ambition and the pressures of an outside world unable to accept their love. Originally shown in select theatres, then broadcast as an episode of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 39, episode 11).
Keywords
- musical
- filmed theater
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 28, 2011
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Broadway Worldwide
- Cast
- James Monroe Iglehart,Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines,Andy Mills,Todrick Hall,Tanya Birl,Chad Kimball,John Jellison,Montego Glover,Kevin Covert,Bryan Langlitzand 17 more
- Director
- Don Roy King
- Writer
- David Bryan,Joe DiPietro
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt1712191