Million Dollar Quartet

Million Dollar Quartet opened South Coast Repertory's 2025-26 season by returning to the December 1956 meeting of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins at Sun Records. Originally directed for SCR by James Moye and directed by Kim Martin-Cotten, the musical depends on the feeling that history is being made in a room small enough for everyone to hear one another breathe before the music lifts it into myth.

Designed by Brandon PT Davis and Efren Delgadillo Jr., the scenic world treated Sun Records as an intimate working studio with the pressure and electricity of a live concert space. Period recording equipment, wood floors, control-room windows, gold records, and an illuminated SUN sign let the room stay grounded while still opening toward rock-and-roll spectacle. This archive page connects the public production record to the portfolio project, where the images and walkthrough show how the studio became both a place of work and a stage for memory.