All Shook Up: Play Analysis

For the second review, my daughters and I watched the play, All Shook Up, on July 30th 2:30 p.m. at our very own Baker University Broadway Theatre. The musical play by Joe DiPietro find inspiration and features the Songs of Elvis Presley. The play All Shook up, takes place in 1955, and into a little square town with a little square state rides a guitar-playing roustabout who changes everything and everyone he meets. In this hip-swiveling, a lip-curling musical fantasy that’ll have the audience jumping out of their blue suede shoes with such classics as “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Don’t Be Cruel” (Baker University). What is unique about the play is that it happens at Baker University Baldwin. Furthermore, what is unique about the play is Baker University collaborates with the Music Theatre, Kansas City, the area’s top professional preparatory training program, for the 25th summer on Broadway at Baker. Together, they offer a unique musical theatre intensive where 55 campers will cast in, rehearse, and perform a full-scale Broadway musical in just seven days. (Baker University). The characters in the play is students from all over the nation. The students at the Baker Academy share a
The story happens in the era of Elvis Presley rock in roll. Altogether the performance is interesting as it shares songs by Elvis, but the story the play All Shook Up outline is unrelated to Elvis Presley. The musical is about love and marriage. In the play, the characters fall in love with the most unlikely of persons. The character Natalie is a tomgirl who is in love with a visiting Elvis look-a-like character named Chad. Chad, however, is in love with the librarian, but he lacks the intellectual savvy to stimulate the librarian's interest. Meanwhile, another young intellectual like Natalie. However, Natalie shows no interest with her male intellectual