"There's my dream! Quick, follow it!"

Welcome to a little town in the middle of the 50's, the middle of nowhere, and the middle of what's about to be one of the craziest 24 hours you've ever seen. 'Cause when traveling troublemaker Chad rides in on his motorcycle, he revs up a whole lot more than an engine.

Tomboyish Natalie falls for him, but her nerdy friend Dennis is secretly in love with Natalie. On the other hand, Chad's gone ga-ga for curvy museum curator Miss Sandra--and so has Jim, Natalie's dad, despite the warnings of jaded African-American barkeep Sylvia. Then there's Sylvia's starry-eyed, teenage daughter Lorraine, who just met Dean, the fair-haired boy of her dreams. Too bad Dean's mother, Matilda, is the repressive town mayor, who has the Mamie Eisenhower Decency Act and the menacing Sheriff Earl on hand to quash any hanky panky, especially of the inter-racial kind.

"I really don't think I can dance like that, Mr. Roustabout"

While the roustabout runs around firing everyone's longing for rebellion and "burnin' love," Natalie does the only sensible thing a girl can do: she dresses up like a guy to play sidekick and get the inside track on how to land Chad. Too bad it looks like she's landed Miss Sandra instead.

And we haven't even gotten to intermission yet!

Sprinkle liberally with pelvis-swiveling rock numbers and power ballads by The King himself, and what other title can there be than "All Shook Up"?

Where: Manatee Players at the Riverfront Theatre
When: April 3 – 20, 2008
Tuesdays – Saturdays 8pm
Sundays 2pm
Double performance Saturday, April 19 (2pm and 8pm)
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Tags: hype, theatre