August 14 - All Shook Up Soundtrack review in LA Times

Today's Sunday Calendar sectin on the LA Times had a review of All Shook Up:

Elvis is found, now the play is missing

"All Shook Up"
Original Broadway cast (Sony BMG)* 1/2
WOW, check out the songs: "Hound Dog," "Blue Suede Shoes," "Jailhouse Rock," "Burning Love." Sounds like a great Elvis compilation, right? Just one problem: There's no Elvis.
Oh, sure, he's the organizing principle here. His recording catalog has been ransacked to provide the score for this Broadway musical, for which playwright Joe DiPietro ("I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change") devised a Shakespeare-meets-"Footloose" story line. Twenty-five songs associated with the King have been divided among the inhabitants of a stuffy little 1950s town and the leather-jacketed, motorcycle-riding stranger who teaches them how to wiggle their pelvises.
"Love Me Tender" is sung in the shimmering soprano of a young woman (Jenn Gambatese) yearning for romance. "Heartbreak Hotel" is performed by a choir of townspeople lamenting their lonely lives. "I Don't Want To" is delivered by the stranger (Cheyenne Jackson) once he realizes he's in love with Ed — who's really the soprano in disguise.
Little of this context is evident in the recording, however. The listener just hears familiar songs being performed by unfamiliar voices — nice voices, mostly, especially Jackson's propulsive rock baritone, but unfamiliar nevertheless.
Some of the musical settings — by Stephen Oremus — feature new combinations of '50s-era sounds, but with the exception of those numbers now pumped full of gospel energy, the results do little to help us hear the songs afresh.