MEMPHIS A REVIEW

The time is the 1950s. The place, Memphis Tennesee,the beginning of Rock n Roll. This is the setting of Memphis, and despite some roughness around the edges and a leveling off in the second act, it is a lively and enjoyable show.
Joe DiPietro's book concerns a white backwoods disk Jocky who comes to Memphis with a new kind of music,exploits and falls in love with a talanted black singer, and and becomes accepted in this mostly black area of music.
If the book is uneven there is some lively toe tapping music by David Bryan and fine choreography by Sergio Trujillo.
The cast is generally fine with notable performances by Chad Kimball and Montego Glover as the disk jocky and his singer girl friend. The rest of the cast is spirited and very adept as singers and dancers, and Christopher Ashley's direction keeps things going at a lively clip.
Is Memphis perfect? Not at all, but it is bright, good looking, tuneful, and worth seeing. I might ad that this looks like a real crowd pleaser because the audience I saw it with went crazy over it.
Go and enjoy.
At THE SHUBERT THEATRE 225 WEST 44th N. Y. C .