Million Dollar Quartet impresses bigtime...

The four guys playing the parts of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins are not the only super impressive, extraordinarily talents actors on the stage at Hale Center Theater in Orem in the Million Dollar Quartet production.
The other two guys playing bass and drums and the recording company manager and Dyanne (played by Ashley Gardner Carlson on T/Th/S) are talented as well.
The whole show is thrilling and well done.
David Paul Smith absolutely rocks as Jerry Lee Lewis from his facial expression to his piano playing to his singing and his irrepressible sense of humor.
Michael D Potter makes a fine Elvis Presley and Colin Summers adds presence and depth in his role as Carl Perkins who never quite collected his due as performer although he wrote signature songs for Elvis and other greats.
Benjamin D. Hale is a marvelous Johnny Cash, sounding just like and looking like the famous man in black while maintaining a real man kind of character.
This is a production that gets a hold of an audience and flies away.
It's musically rich.
It's clever and funny and it tells the story of these iconic characters with heart and emotion.
Hale Center is fortunate to have gathered these performers together on one stage.
There's something magic about it.
(It plays through Aug. 3rd.)