‘The high voltage encore to Jonathan O’Boyle’s production gets the audience to their feet’
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‘Packed with outstanding musicianship, timeless songs and a cast operating at the top of their game.’
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Million Dollar Quartet
The West End and Broadway smash-hit musical, Million Dollar Quartet returns to London for 12 weeks only.
On the night of December 4, 1956, four musical icons walked into a recording studio in Memphis and made musical history. Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley were brought together by pure chance for a jam session which would go on to shape the trajectory of rock ‘n’ roll music globally. Now, 70 years
after that legendary meeting, celebrate the anniversary of the night the Million Dollar Quartet came together and changed music forever.
Featuring the hit songs Blue Suede Shoes, Fever, Walk The Line, Hound Dog, Great Balls of Fire, and many more, experience that once-in-a-lifetime event, in an electrifying 3x Tony Award-nominated musical where rivalries ignited, friendships were tested and rock ‘n’ roll was born.
Starring stage and screen favourite, Darren Day (Hollyoaks, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Chicago) as Sam Phillips, the visionary producer who discovered the sound of rock ‘n’ roll, alongside a sensational cast and live band, don’t miss this exhilarating celebration of legendary artists.
Playing a strictly limited London season at The Arts at Marble Arch, from September 2026. Book now for the greatest rock ‘n’ roll jam session in history!
Cast
Darren Day’s career on stage and screen began in 1988 when he won BBC1’s Bob Says Opportunity Knocks, hosted by the legendary Bob Monkhouse, who later said he was proud to be the first to introduce Darren on television.
His major breakthrough came in 1993, starring as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at the London Palladium. The role established him as a leading West End star, and he went on to reprise it in numerous West End, UK, and international productions.
Following Joseph, Darren recorded the role of Jesus on the official London cast recording of Godspell at Abbey Road Studios, conducted by Stephen Schwartz. That same year, he performed at the Royal Variety Performance before Her Majesty The Queen and Prince Philip, returning the following year as host.
His extensive theatre credits include leading roles in Great Expectations (Theatre Clwyd), Copacabana (West End), Summer Holiday (West End & UK Tour – breaking box office records and earning him ‘Performance of the Year’), Grease (Danny Zuko, West End), The Rocky Horror Show (Frank n Furter, 25th Anniversary Tour), Carousel (Billy Bigelow, UK Tour), Les Misérables (Jean Valjean, West End), We Will Rock You (Khashoggi, UK Tour), Beauty and the Beast (The Beast, UK Tour), White Christmas (Bob Wallace, West Yorkshire Playhouse), Priscilla Queen of the Desert(Tick, UK Tour), Chicago (Billy Flynn, multiple UK Tours), and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Hugo/Loco Chanel, UK Tour).
Other notable stage work includes The Last Session (Best Actor Award), Footloose (Rev. Shaw Moore, UK Tour), Mame (Beau, Salisbury Playhouse), Close-Up – The Twiggy Musical (Menier Chocolate Factory), and Muriel’s Wedding (Bill Heslop, Leicester Curve). Darren has also appeared in over 20 pantomimes, earning a nomination for Best Male Villain at the Great British Pantomime Awards for his role as Captain Hook.
In music, Darren signed with Simon Cowell’s Arista and RCA Records in 1994, achieving a Top 20 hit and winning Best Male Singer at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. His singles and albums charted in the UK Top Ten, and he was a frequent performer on Top of the Pops.
On television, Darren hosted ITV’s prime-time hits You Bet and Don’t Try This at Home (with Davina McCall), both achieving record viewing figures. Acting roles include appearances in Doctors (BBC1), Hollyoaks (E4), Stella (BBC), Holby City (BBC), Crime Stories (ITV), The Bill (ITV), and Mile High (Sky One).
He was a finalist on Celebrity Big Brother (Channel 5) and an early participant in ITV’s first I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!. He has also appeared in French and Saunders’ Cold Turkey and Harry Hill’s Extreem Soap.
Film credits include Rudy (directed by Shona Auerbach), White Island, The Krays, Dangerous Game, Demon Eye, Rough Cut, Hellbreeder, and Pinch of Portugal.
During the 2020 lockdown, Darren reprised his roles as Joseph and Jesus in online charity concerts for Acting for Others and narrated the comedy pilot The Fosse Forest Ballet, directed by Racky Plews.
TRAINING: The Royal Academy of Music, MA in Musical Theatre
THEATRE INCLUDES: Ruth: The Musical (Wilton’s Music Hall)
WORKSHOPS INCLUDE: Something in the Water (Teal Moon Productions)
CREDITS WHILST TRAINING INCLUDE: Assassins; A Man Of No Importance; The Last 25 Years; The Seagull and All The Children in a Row
Chris Erasmus is a London-based musical theatre performer and actor, originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised between Zimbabwe and South Africa. He trained in New York with Susan Batson and holds a Master’s degree in Musical Theatre from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
A natural storyteller with a rich baritenor voice, Chris developed a love for musical theatre early on, inspired by performing in Nicholas Nickleby and the timeless screen work of Gene Kelly. His work combines strong acting with a grounded musicality, drawing on influences from contemporary musical theatre, country, and rock.
His theatre credits include Winghaven Park (musical) and Beauty and the Beast (pantomime), alongside screen work for ITV and portraying Johnny Cash in a biographical production. He has also worked as a stunt performer and horse specialist on productions including The Witcher and Bridgerton, with real-world experience working as a cowboy in Montana informing his physical approach to performance.
Alongside his stage work, Chris is a Billboard-charting recording artist, currently writing, recording, and performing across the UK and USA with his band, Chris Erasmus & The Wayward Few. His music can be found on all major streaming platforms.
Joe is an actor and musician originally from East London.
Theatre Credits: Buddy Holly in ‘Rock & Roll Man’ (Wiltshire Creative); Cover Darcy/Wickham/Alveston in ‘Death Comes to Pemberley’ (No1 UK Tour / The Mill at Sonning); Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet (Barn Theatre)
Screen Credits: Apsley Cherry-Garrard in the Antarctic biopic ‘The Worst Journey In The World’ (Wild Films); Nev in ‘Deadline’ (Endless Pages); Joey in ‘Never Going To Beat You’ (Crispy Biscuit Films).
Voiceover Credits: Kyle in the ‘Invisible Fiends’ book series; Police Operator in ‘The Magnus Protocol’ (Rusty Quill podcasts).
Joey Bradick is delighted to be joining the cast of Million Dollar Quartet as Carl Perkins, one of rock ’n’ roll’s true pioneers.
Growing up in North London, the music of the 50s and 60s played an integral part in Joey’s musical upbringing, leading to recent theatre credits including Humbug (Waterloo Vaults, Nov–Dec 2025) and The Cavern Club Story (UK Tour, 2026), in which he played the frontman in both shows.
Since graduating with a degree in Music, Joey has spent the past decade developing a broad portfolio as both a solo musician, actor and collaborator. Recent highlights include performances in Austin and Nashville, as well as a European support tour in September 2025, alongside hundreds of performances in concert halls, theatres and live music venues across the UK and Europe.
Joey would like to thank his family, friends and agent for their continued support.
Training: University of Maryland College Park: Smith Excellence in Theatre Award Scholarship.
Theatre: Katherine and Rachel u/s in MJ The Musical (Prince Edward Theatre), Ardelia in Silence! The Musical (Turbine Theatre), Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard Musical (Theatre by The Sea), Celie and Shug Avery u/s in The Color Purple (US Nat’l Tour), Nansi in Three Little Birds (US Nat’l Tour), Radio One in Caroline or Change (Creative Cauldron), Dynamite in Hairspray (Mill Mountain Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Signature Theatre), Avenue Q (Constellation Theatre Company: Helen Hayes Award)
Concerts and Workshops: Whitney in The Best: Whitney V Tina (Adrian Grant Productions), Disney Victrophonics (Disney Cruise Line), Whitney Houston Tribute (Green Room 42), Sleepy Hollow: The Musical (New York, New Works), Sylvanna in The Talented Mr. Ripley (Kennedy Center)
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); The Lord of the Rings (The Watermill Theatre).
Theatre as Composer/Actor Musician includes: Fires Our Shoes Have Made (C Venues, Edinburgh/Warwick Arts Centre); Jigsaw/A Typical Sister (Bridge House Theatre).
Television includes: World On Fire
Training: Mountview Academy of Performing Arts.
Theatre credits include: The Buddy Holly Story (UK Tour); The Cavern Club Story (UK Tour); The Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (Upstairs at The Gatehouse); The Curse of Elizabeth Faulkner (The Charing Cross Theatre); Humbug! (Waterloo Vaults); Plus various Pantomimes across the country.
Most recently Josh has been touring with the comedy smash hit …Earnest? around the UK and Australia. Josh is also company director of Say It Again Sorry? The creators of ..Earnest?
Josh has played drums all over the world with various different bands, and is a founding member of critically acclaimed rock n roll outfit The Runaround Kids. Artists he’s played for include guitar legend Albert Lee, and 70s pop legend Jay Osmond of The Osmond’s.
Eiméar is a Singer-Actress and Musician from County Armagh in Ireland. Eiméar studied Classical Singing at The University of Manchester, before going on to complete her Masters in Musical Theatre at Royal Academy of Music London. Eiméar was a member of renowned Irish Ensemble Celtic Angels touring extensively cross the USA alongside Irelands top artists. She appeared on RTE’s The Voice of Ireland and also released her debut Irish folk album A Heart at Home. In 2022, Eiméar played the role of Carole King in Prestige Productions musical Carole: The Music of Carole King, bringing it to audiences all across the UK and was also the Music Supervisor.
Eiméar is absolutely thrilled to be joining the cast of Million Dollar Quartet at The Barn Theatre, and even more thrilled to be covering the role of the incredible Dyanne!
CREATIVeS
Author
Colin Escott
Born in England, Colin Escott lives near Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll, the first in-depth account of the Sun Records story. His book Hank Williams - The Biography has been adapted into the movie I Saw the Light, starring Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen. His multi-CD box set, The Complete Hank Williams, won a Grammy, and another of his productions, B.B. King - King of the Blues, was nominated for a Grammy.
Million Dollar Quartet received three Tony nominations, including Best Book and Best Musical.
Escott was part of the writing/producing team adapting the show for CMT/Viacom. The first season aired in 2016.
Author
Floyd Mutrux
Floyd Mutrux apprenticed at the Alley Theatre in Houston and worked at Second City in Chicago; he attended Columbia University. He has conceived, written, directed, or produced 50 films, including Dusty and Sweets McGee; Freebie and the Bean; Aloha, Bobby and Rose; The Hollywood Knights; American Hot Wax; Dick Tracy; American Me; Blood In, Blood Out; There Goes My Baby; and Mulholland Falls. With his wife Birgitte, he is preparing a new film Moon Over Memphis (a rock-and-roll Field of Dreams.) He also cowrote the musical Baby It's You! With Colin Escott and helped adapt Sun Records, the new television series based on Million Dollar Quartet. Million Dollar Quartet received three Tony Award nominations in 2010, including best book and best musicals.
Director
Jonathan O’Boyle
Jonathan trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and Birkbeck, University of London. He was previously Trainee Associate Director at Chichester Festival Theatre and Associate Director at Theatre503.
Directing credits include Barnum (UK Tour/Watermill Theatre); Fourteen Again (Victoria Wood Theatre); The Hunchback of Notre Dame: In Concert (Prince Edward Theatre); Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical (The Other Palace/UK Tour); Pippin: 50th Anniversary Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Hair (International Tour/Hope Mill Theatre/The Vaults); Calendar Girls, Rain Man (Bill Kenwright Ltd); Picture You Dead, Wish You Were Dead, Looking Good Dead (UK Tour/Peter James Productions); The Last Five Years (Garrick Theatre/Southwark Playhouse/China Tour); White Christmas, Top Hat (Mill at Sonning); A Guide for the Homesick, Rasheeda Speaking, Bash: Latter-Day Plays (Trafalgar Studios); The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre); Aspects of Love, Pippin (Hope Mill Theatre/Southwark Playhouse); This House (Headlong/UK Tour, co-directed with Jeremy Herrin); Dear Brutus (Southwark Playhouse); Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Cadogan Hall); Peter Pan (Park Theatre); Four Play, Sense of an Ending (Theatre503); The Surplus, All The Ways To Say Goodbye (Young Vic); Robin Hood, Cinderella, Dick Whittington (Crossroads); The Wedding Singer, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Season’s Greetings (Arts Ed).
Associate Director credits include: An American In Paris (Dominion Theatre); The Judas Kiss (Brooklyn Academy of Music/Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto); The Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic).
Awards include Off West End Awards for Best Director of a Musical and Best Musical Production (The Last Five Years); WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End Production (Hair).
Movement Director
Joanna Goodwin
Joanna has recently choreographed the hotly anticipated revival of The Kiss Of The Spiderwoman, which opened at Leicester Curve before transferring to Bristol Old Vic and MAST, Southampton. Prior to this, she choreographed Les Demoiselles De Rochefort which is currently playing at the Lido, Paris.
CHOREOGRAPHY AND MOVEMENT DIRECTION FOR STAGE INCLUDES: Extraordinary Women (Jerymn Street Theatre); Kiss Me Quickstep (Derby Theatre); My Fair Lady (Curve Leicester); An Officer and A Gentleman (UK Tour); The Cabinet Minister (Menier Chocolate Factory); A View From The Bridge (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Marie Curie (Charing Cross Theatre); Pippin in Concert, Love Never Dies in Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Crucible); I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical (Edinburgh Festival); Gypsy (Alexandra Palace Theatre); Sunset Boulevard (The Royal Albert Hall); Just So (The Barn Theatre) & Sondheim on Sondheim (Alexandra Palace Theatre).
SCREEN CHOREOGRAPHY INCLUDES:
Black Mirror (Netflix); The Performance Movie (Associate to Jared Grimes, Daniel Finkelman Films); Strike – Troubled Blood (BBC/HBO); Life After Life (BBC).
Set and Costume Designer
Libby Watson
Libby Watson is a set and costume designer based in London working across theatre and dance. Libby trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and holds a First Class Honours BA from Wimbledon School of Art.
Recent credits include: Manic Street Creature (Kiln Theatre, Southwark Playhouse); The Rat Trap, Daisy Pulls it Off (Park Theatre); The Gang of Three (Kings Head Theatre); Being Mr Wickham (Live stream & UK tour); Es & Flo (Wales Millennium Centre); Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] (UK Tour); Strike! (Southwark Playhouse), Bring It On: The Musical (UK tour); Toast by Nigel Slater (West End & UK tour); Glitterball (Watford Palace Theatre); The Fellowship (Hampstead Theatre); The Witchfinder's Sister (Queens Theatre);Dr Faustus (Sam Wannamaker Theatre); The Philanthropist (Trafalgar Studios West End), Single, A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, One Man Two Guvnors, Guys and Dolls (New Wolsey Theatre); Once (UK tour); Fences (West End, Theatre Royal Bath).
Lighting Designer
Alex Musgrave
Alex has been nominated for two Off West End Awards for Best Lighting Design for The White Factory at the Marylebone Theatre and You are Here at the Southwark Playhouse. Alex was also the Association of Lighting Production and Design Lumière 2019.
The Forsyte Saga – Parts 1& 2 (Swan Theatre, RSC) Home (Chichester Festival Theatre) Scenes From a Friendship (Nottingham Playhouse) Ottilie (Barn Theatre, Cirencester) Dracula (National Youth Theatre) Next to Normal (Mountview) The Wanderers (Marylebone Theatre) The Soon Life (Southwark Playhouse) The Seagull: True Story (Marylebone Theatre), Extraordinary Women (Jermyn Street Theatre) Opera Shorts (Buxton International Festival) The White Rose (Marylebone Theatre) Figaro: An Original Musical (London Palladium), A Christmas Carol (The Lowry, Manchester) The Forsyte Saga – Parts 1& 2 (Park Theatre, Finsbury Park) Stones in His Pockets (Barn theatre, Cirencester. Salisbury Playhouse, Bolton Octagon and Everyman Theatre, Cork), The White Factory, The Last Word (Marylebone Theatre, London) Unbound – a New Musical, A Concert (Hoxton Hall, London), Kin - The Musical (Teatro Technis, London), Before After and Romeo and Juliet (Southwark Playhouse, London), It’s a MotherF**king Pleasure ( North American Tour, SoHo Playhouse - New York City, Southbank Centre & Soho Theatre – London, National and European Tours), Sherlock and the Whitechapel Fiend, Treasure Island and Private Lives (Barn Theatre, Cirencester), The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), Rapunzel (The Watermill Theatre).
Sound Designer
Nick Lodge
Coming Up: Here Comes J. Edgar (Kings Head Theatre).
Sound Design Credits: Thespians (UK Tour); The Sound of Music (Leicester Curve); Dick Whittington (Plymouth Theatre Royal); Liberation (Royal Exchange Manchester); Nine in Concert (Lowry/Hope Mill Theatre); Spend Spend Spend (Royal Exchange Manchester); Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Hull New Theatre – Crossroads Pantomimes).
Associate: The Bodyguard (UK tour); Military Wives (York Theatre Royal); Create (Star of the Seas); Barnum (The Watermill); 2:22 (Gielgud Theatre & UK tour); Grease (UK tour); The Addams Family (London Palladium & UK tour); Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse); The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (Icon of the Seas).
Training: Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Musical Supervisor
Lee Freeman
Lee is a Musical Director, Composer, Arranger/Orchestrator and Vocal Coach. After studying at The BRIT School, he continued his training at the University of Surrey.
MUSICAL DIRECTOR CREDITS INCLUDE: The Choir of Man (Arts Theatre, West End), Pippin (Laine Theatre Arts), Cinderella (Norwich Theatre), Lightning Boy (Birmingham Hippodrome/NYMT), Our House (Southwark Playhouse), Cool Rider 10th Anniversary Concert (London Palladium), Jack and the Beanstalk and Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Cool Rider (West End), Ushers: The Front of House Musical, Copacabana (UK Tour), Spelling Bee (UK Tour), Lucky Stiff (Sadler’s Wells), The Last Five Years, Moby Dick The Musical, Prom Queen and more. He was also Musical Supervisor for Imagine This (Union Theatre).
COMPOSER CREDITS INCLUDE: Three Musketeers: Trois and Treasure Island (Barn Theatre), Proud (Turbine Theatre), Hot Wheels (BYMT), Signposts and Diversions (Off-Broadway), Chat! (Edinburgh Fringe) and Bent. Lee was a finalist for both the Stiles & Drewe Best Song Award 2024 and Mentorship Award 2023.
ORCHESTRATION CREDITS INCLUDE: Lightning Boy, Three Musketeers: Trois, Treasure Island, Cool Rider, Moby Dick The Musical, Chat! and West End Bares. He has also arranged for Proud Cabaret productions featuring Duncan James, Denise Van Outen and Claire Sweeney.
TELEVISION CREDITS INCLUDE: RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 6 pianist) and Even Better Than The Real Thing (BBC vocal coach). Lee is also a trained Vocal Health First Aider and teaches at leading drama schools including ArtsEd, Bird College, Laine Theatre Arts and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
