From listening to this cast recording, I get the impression the writers were trying to create a cute, fun, colorful 50’s musical like Hairspray based on some great music. I’ve never been a huge Elvis fan, but I do like some of his music, and I am certain that whatever All Shook Up is, it isn’t his music. It’s pretty much a massacre of all the Elvis songs you can think of. Even if you’re not a purist, these renditions are pretty bad. It took quite a few sittings to even get through the whole album, and from what I can tell, the cheesy story that goes along with the bad music isn’t any improvement. What I really want to know is, if it completely bombed on Broadway, why are all the community theatre’s on Long Island producing it, and worse, why do I have to do a lighting design for it this summer? :-(