Million Dollar Quartet Production Photographs
I took the rehearsal and production photographs for Million Dollar Quartet and these images can currently be seen on tube, bus stop and press adverts.
I took all three images for the above poster at the Noel Coward Theatre during dress rehearsals.
Michael Malarkey plays Elvis Presley
Ben Goddard is Jerry Lee Lewis
Johnny Cash is played by Derek Hagen
When Million Dollar Quartet opened in February, Carl Perkins was played by Robert Britton Lyons who had starred in the Broadway production. The plan was that Oliver Seymour-Marsh would replace him six weeks after the show started, so the whole cast rehearsed together from the beginning. I took this image during the dress rehearsals - Oliver was present the whole time. Oliver has now started playing Carl Perkins full time, and from what I have heard is making an excellent job of filling some pretty big boots.
Francesca Jackson stars as Dyanne, seen here with Derek Hagen in the foreground
The four leads gather around the piano to replicate the original photograph taken in 1956
Please click on the above thumbnails to see larger images.
If you haven't already I would definitely recommend going to see Million Dollar Quartet. The cast do all the singing and playing themselves and the sound is absolutely fantastic. There isn't a weak cast member, but Ben Goddard is particularly brilliant as a very energetic Jerry Lee Lewis, and Derek Hagen manages to replicate Johnny Cash's deep gravelly tones perfectly.
