Broadway2004
All Shook Up
- Dates
- Mar 24 – Sep 25, 2005
- Performances
- 213
About
All Shook Up is an American jukebox musical with music from the Elvis Presley songbook and with a book by Joe DiPietro. The show concerns the repressed residents of an unnamed American town in the Midwest during the summer of 1955 who experience an awakening when a leather-clad guitar-strumming roustabout rolls into town. The story takes inspiration from the comedies of William Shakespeare, particularly Twelfth Night, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing. It explores themes such as authoritarianism, segregation, and homosexuality. The musical premiered on Broadway in 2005.