CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, September 02, 2008

'Memphis' captures rock's roots at the La Jolla Playhouse

Los Angeles Times: "Now La Jolla has the not-quite-sequel: Jersey Boys, the partnership -- Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, a writer-composer team of 46-year-olds who, on the face of it, are one of the oddest theatrical couplings since Neil Simon thought up Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar.
Their show, 'Memphis,' tells how black rhythm and blues music began to reach white listeners on Southern airwaves during the early 1950s. First produced five years ago in Boston and the Bay Area, it's having a retooled staging in La Jolla."

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