Million Dollar Quartet Christmas
Suncoast Broadway Theatre Sarasota, FL
Lighting design for the 2025 production of Million Dollar Quartet Christmas at Suncoast Broadway Theatre, directed by Matt Cusack.
About the Lighting Design
Million Dollar Quartet Christmas lives in two overlapping worlds inside Sun Records. The first is naturalistic, the recording studio where the four musicians spend time between songs. The second is heightened, the place songs go when they start. When a song hits, the design shifts: color, intensity, and the kind of dynamic hits you’d expect at a concert rather than a studio session.
Between the two extremes is a hybrid space, mostly the softer ballads, where a subtle lighting shift suggests theatricality without fully committing to the concert side.
The design also had to work within Suncoast’s house plot. Most of the rig was repertory, fixed in position, built to serve a season of unrelated shows. Each existing fixture had to take on a new role inside the two-worlds framework, sequenced so the rep gear felt like it was picked specifically for this production.
- Book
- Colin Escott
- Created by
- Floyd MutruxColin Escott
- Director
- Matt Cusack
- Choreographer
- Elias Husgafvel
- Scenic Designer
- Tom Hansen
- Costume Designer
- Annie Le
- Lighting Designer
- Mike Wood
- Sound Designer
- Kurt Terrio
- Video Designer
- Eric Johnson
- Producer
- Charity & Kurt Terrio
- Props Master
- Brian Moran
- Production Stage Manager
- Abby Schneck
- Production Manager
- Henrick Ayala
About the Show
Million Dollar Quartet Christmas is the perfect sequel to the hugely successful Million Dollar Quartet, featuring an array of rockin' Christmas classics for a holiday celebration that will have audiences on their feet and dancing in the aisles. The show takes place at Sun Records, which serves as the set for the entire show, where the four legendary performers share stories of their Christmas experiences past, present, and future while performing one musical number after another.
Source: TRW
Cast
Alex BurnetteMatt StanleyNathan RobertsSage SpikerLandon ZwickJoey NuhferMac BuenidaBeth AndersonKaleigh Resco