There's no story here. It's mostly a concert which is fine and the actors are all extremely talented at portraying their idols. But I expected more. I expected a play.
Also disappointing that the actors were not in the lobby after the show for photos.
This review says it all :
Sticklers for the "book" part of book musicals will be dismayed at how thin "Million Dollar Quartet" is, as will some students of rock history. But it's a jukebox musical that remembers to keep plugging in quarters, and Chuck Mead's terrific arrangements put serious turbo power in this particular Wurlitzer. With cast members doing their own well-studied, better-amplified singing and playing, it's difficult to imagine anyone except rock-knocker Steve Allen walking away from the show not wanting to spread the word that the Sun Records class of 1956 was, in fact, the Greatest Generation.
The four stars' meet-up at Sun's Memphis studio on Dec. 4, 1956 really did happen — as the show eagerly reminds us at the opening and close. In reality, they mostly crooned gospel and country songs around a piano. (Cash isn't even audible on the album eventually released of the crude sessions.) In the stage fiction, naturally, they all get around to go-cat-go rave-ups of their greatest mid-'50s hits.
The book's co-writer, Colin Escott, is an esteemed authority on these matters, yet even he has succumbed to the pressure to make "Million Dollar Quartet" a tribute-concert-times-four, instead of any kind of faithful take on what really went down that day. And can you blame him? Would you rather hear these legends rock out on "Great Balls of Fire" or the historically accurate "Blessed Jesus (Take My Hand)"? Thought so.