The UK tour of Love Me Tender – a new musical inspired by and featuring the music of Elvis Presley – will open on Friday 5 June 2015 at the Manchester Opera House. Casting will be announced shortly.
From the producers of Hairspray, Jersey Boys and West Side Story, Love Me Tender is a feel-good musical featuring Elvis Presley’s greatest hits. In a small town in 1950s America, a guitar-playing, hip-swivelling stranger rides his motorbike into town. Is he ‘The Devil in Disguise’ or a ‘Hound Dog’ in his ‘Blue Suede Shoes’? The townsfolk are about to be ‘All Shook Up’ and could be headed for ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, but for Natalie, the love-struck, tomboy mechanic, it really is ‘Now or Never’.
Packed with 25 of the best-loved songs by The King himself, Love Me Tender, by the writer of the award-wining West End and Broadway smash hit Memphis, is a funny and moving tale of hope, second chances and the healing qualities of rock‘n’roll.
Producer Adam Spiegel said: “I’m delighted to be working with such a talented, awardiwinning creative team to bring the UK this fantastic feel-good musical featuring some of the best music ever written – the greatest hits of the King of Rock‘n’Roll, Elvis Presley.”
Love Me Tender is written by Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro (Memphis) and directed and choreographed by Olivier Award winner Karen Bruce (Saturday Night Fever, Dance ’Til Dawn, Pacific Overtures) with set design by Morgan Large (Flashdance, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof), lighting design by James Whiteside (Never Forget, Footloose), and costume design by Vicky Gill (Dance ‘Til Dawn, Strictly Come Dancing).
The musical is presented by Adam Spiegel Productions, Robert G. Bartner and the Ambassador Theatre Group.
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