NEW YORK (Elvis Fans Website) - An Elvis Presley musical, called Can't Help Falling In Love, looks to be Broadway bound. The show is set up like the successful ABBA musical Mama Mia, with a story built around more than 20 Elvis hits, including the title song. Other tunes to be featured are "Heartbreak Hotel," "Love Me Tender," and "Blue Suede Shoes" (which was written and first recorded by his 1950s Sun Records labelmate, Carl Perkins). The Elvis musical held its first reading on Monday night (March 24) at the off-Broadway Westside Theater in New York City. If all goes as the producers plan, it will become one of the latest stage shows based on pop music, including Billy Joel's collaboration with choreographer Twyla Tharp, Movin' Out; and the Mamas & The Papas musical, Dream A Little Dream. There are also productions in the works built around the music of the Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac, and the Bee Gees.
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