MASKS ARE REQUIRED

On Sale: January 25, 2022 at 8:00am. Check Ticketmaster or BJCC Central Ticket Office for Pricing and Availability. Doors open 1 hour before show time. Venue box office opens 2 hours before scheduled performance. For more information, visit Alabama Ballet.

Dennis Nahat’s Blue Suede Shoes, a full-length ballet danced to the music of Elvis Presley, combines classical dance with classic rock. The rock-and-roll ballet, with a good helping of jazz, follows three friends over almost twenty years, starting with high school in the 1950s (when they are first seen wearing their blue suede shoes). The scene evolves to the Hot Dog Drive-in, through graduation, into army life, then lonely streets and a disco concluding with a gold record finale. We meet Long Tall Sally and the Big Boss Man along the way, as the three young men roll through an age of innocence, the social changes of the 1960s, and into disco of the 1970s. The 90-minute ballet has 16 sets and 280 costumes, all designed by Bob Mackie.