If you want a musical with some real soul in it, give this show a try. Memphis tells the story of 50s era music, pre-rock, just at the cusp when gospel and R&B coalesced with white pop to create a whole new musical and cultural genre. Centered around a ne’er do well white kid who falls in love with black (or “race” as it was called then) music that came from church and juke joints, the story unfolds the tension of mixing allowing black music in the white world, as well as the subsequent romantic relationship between the young man and a black singer. If you know a bit of the history of the times, it’s fairly easy to replace the fictional characters with the likes of Little Richard and Alan Freed, but the story holds up on its own rather well. Strong solo performances underlay the tension between working through cultural and social prejudices on both sides of the tracks, as the story shows, the problem wasn’t (and isn’t) SKIN, as much as SIN. Stax-styled music hits the stage!