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David Bryan and Joe DiPietro’s 'Memphis' arrived at the Shubert Theatre in 2009, running for an astonishing 1,165 performances and sweeping four major Tony Awards including Best Musical. Set inside the segregated rhythm-and-blues underground clubs of Memphis, Tennessee in the 1950s, the emotionally massive musical drama follows Huey Calhoun, an eccentric, fast-talking white radio disc jockey who risks institutional violence to broadcast Black music to mainstream teen audiences, falling into a forbidden romance with a club singer. Directed by Christopher Ashley with choreography by Sergio Trujillo, it starred Chad Kimball.

