Rock `n´ roll thrills fill theater with `Million Dollar Quartet´
(WorldNews Music)

Four terrific performances — or at least 3 ½ — thrilled the audience at Lucie Stern Theater in Palo Alto on Saturday as the foot-tapping, heart-pounding, hand-clapping musical “Million Dollar Quartet� roared onstage under the steady hands of Palo Alto Players and director Jeffrey Bracco. And there’s a blonde bombshell who can belt out a song with the best of them (and knows how to accentuate her curves in a form-fitting red dress). The audience lapped it up. Though the storyline of the 2010 musical by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott is slight, that’s not the purpose. It’s simply to highlight one — Dec. 4, 1956 — when four dynamos of...