Jerry Lee Lewis News Archives

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2009 with 93 to follow. The moon is waxing.

Actress Anita Ekberg is 78. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 74. Actor Ian McShane is 67.

Today: Director Arthur Penn is 87. Singer-actor Meat Loaf is 62. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is 37.

Bobby Brown's first job back from St. Louis was at the Cotton Club. Northeast Arkansas in the 1950s was once the center of the musical universe.

Some say people are placed on earth for a reason. If that is true, one local musician came to know his reason as early as age 2. ------ Randy Gilkey's parents began to notice him being drawn to the piano as a toddler.

A Massachusetts regional music theater that has gone out of business will finally see one of its original musicals reach Broadway.

'Million Dollar Quartet,' a musical co-directed by Washington's Eric Schaeffer and based on the legendary 1956 jam session of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, is headed to Broadway.

The production, which has been playing for almost a year to solid-gold reviews in Chicago, will open in the spring, the show's producers announced Tuesday.

Schaeffer, 47, the co-founder and artistic director of Signature Theatre in Arlington, has developed an award-winning track record of work locally and outside the region. On Broadway, he directed 'Putting It Together,' a Stephen Sondheim revue, in 1999, and also 2008's 'Glory Days,' about four friends who reunite a year after high school. In addition, Schaeffer has directed the national tour of 'Big: The Musical,' an adaptation of the Tom Hanks movie, and the London debut of 'The Witches of Eastwick.'

The music of Johnny Cash , Elvis Presley , Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins is headed to the stage with the upcoming show Million Dollar Quartet , scheduled to run this coming spring.

Music icons celebrated in Broadway-bound musical Eds: APNewsNow. AP Photo NYET383 NEW YORK Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley together again.