Million Dollar Quartet

Forgive us, readers, for we have sinned. It has been 16 days since our last post.

I think we were a little exhausted by election season, and we needed a little respite before the craziness of the holidays cranks up. But cranking up it is, beginning right now!

Tonight, the Empty Nesters really did Rock!

We went up to see this brand new musical which had gotten rave reviews and is moving off-Broadway when it closes in Chicago. Lori took the train in from work, I took it up from IIT, we met in the Loop, took the Brown Line up to Lincoln Park and were picked up at the station by Marlis and Glenn who had driven in. At the Apollo Theater, we parked under the L, then walked about 100 feet NW to Greg's Hoagie Hut--that's him, the owner and chief cook, right there. Glenn and I had his own creation, the Chicago Cheese Steak Hoagie, and it was truly a fine and unique sandwich, let me tell you. We walked back to the theater after dinner, and had a couple drinks before the show.

And what a show! It centered around the night in December of 1956 that Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley all showed up at Sun Studio in Memphis and had a jam session. The actors/musicians were simply incredible. The storyline was compelling--Sam Phillips' was its central character--and the song selection was, as you might expect, a mix of the early hits by each of the four artists plus some fun covers of songs by their contemporaries.

If any of you ever get a chance to see it, you should go. Too bad you won't get the sandwich, too.