Loosely based on real events, Memphis tells the love story of a white disc jockey named Huey Calhoun and a black singer named Felicia Farrell. Set in a segregated America in the 1950s, the musical comments on the politics of the era as the couple fights to stay together. Although Memphis debuted on Broadway in 2009, the show made its premiere in 2002 at the New Works Festival in California and was produced in theaters across the country before finally making its way to New York.
