<Li> 2010 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Musical </Li> <Li> 2009 - 2010 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical </Li> <P> Memphis is a musical by David Bryan (music and lyrics) and Joe DiPietro (lyrics and book). It is loosely based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s . It played on Broadway from October 19, 2009 to August 5, 2012 . This production won four 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Musical . The show was previously staged at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts and TheatreWorks in Mountain View, California during the 2003 - 04 season, as well as the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle during the 2008 - 2009 season . </P> <P> There's a party at Delray's, an underground black Rock and Roll bar in 1950s Memphis ("Underground"). Huey Calhoun, a white man, arrives on the scene . The regulars begin to leave, but Huey convinces them to stay, claiming he is there for the music ("The Music of My Soul"). Later, Huey is about to be fired from his job as a stock boy at a local department store, but he makes a deal with the owner, if he can sell 5 records by playing them over the speakers, he can have a sales job . Huey plays a rock & roll hit ("Scratch My Itch"). He sells 29 records in five minutes, but the store owner fires him anyway, incensed at the type of music being played . </P>

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