{"id":119239,"date":"2026-01-15T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119239\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:40:08","slug":"million-dollar-quartet-at-music-arts-community-center-ft-myers-naples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119239\/","title":{"rendered":"Million Dollar Quartet at Music &#038; Arts Community Center Ft. Myers\/Naples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southwest Florida Theatre Company presents\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gulfcoastsymphony.org\/concert\/million-dollar-quartet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Million Dollar Quartet<\/a>\u00a0from Jan. 28 through Feb. 14 at the Music &amp; Arts Community Center (MACC) in Fort\u00a0Myers.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gulfcoastsymphony.org\/concert\/million-dollar-quartet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Million Dollar Quartet<\/a>\u00a0is a fictionalized retelling of the momentous occasion in music history when, on Dec. 4, 1956, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins \u2013\u00a0the eponymous Million Dollar Quartet \u2013\u00a0happened to be visiting the same Memphis recording studio at the same time. The four future legends recorded an impromptu jam session that would later inspire the musical, written by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux, which opened on Broadway in\u00a02010.<\/p>\n<p>This jubilant jukebox musical features familiar favorites from the 1950s, spanning rock\u2019n\u2019roll, rhythm and blues, country and gospel, from \u201cGreat Balls of Fire\u201d and \u201cBlue Suede Shoes\u201d to \u201cFolsom Prison Blues\u201d and \u201cHound Dog,\u201d as well as the beloved spiritual, \u201cDown by the\u00a0Riverside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAudiences will love the nostalgia of this show and seeing the interactions of these musical legends who just serendipitously ended up in the same room together, \u201d says Julie Carver, Music Director of the Southwest Florida Theatre Company. \u201cThe cast is talented and energetic, and they all have experience in these iconic roles \u2013 and they\u2019re not just acting and singing, they\u2019re also playing an\u00a0instrument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the show contains some mild adult language, Carver notes that it\u2019s appropriate for children, adding, \u201cThis production has created multi-generational curiosity in these four music icons \u2013\u00a0it connects people of every\u00a0age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For show times and to purchase tickets for\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gulfcoastsymphony.org\/concert\/million-dollar-quartet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Million Dollar Quartet<\/a>, call 239-277-1700 or visit MACCtickets.org. The\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gulfcoastsymphony.org\/venues\/macc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Music &amp; Arts Community Center<\/a>\u00a0is located off Daniels Parkway at 13411 Shire Lane in Fort Myers, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Southwest Florida Theatre Company presents\u00a0Million Dollar Quartet\u00a0from Jan. 28 through Feb. 14 at the Music &amp; Arts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-119239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}