The best rock ‘n’ roll band now in the Lehigh Valley is holding forth at Northampton Community College.

They’re the Million Dollar Quartet and they’re rockin’ the Lipkin Theatre in the musical, “Million Dollar Quartet,” through June 15 in the Bill Mutimer Summer Theatre Series.

The musical is based on a one-and-only-jam session, Dec. 4, 1956, Sun Studio, Memphis, Tenn., with four of rock ‘n’ roll’s progenitors who recorded hits there.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index, $1 million in 1956 is today worth $11,757,316.18.

The four rock ‘n’ roll icons would make that and more.

Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977), who recorded his first Sun Records single, “That’s All Right,” in 1954, was already a huge star at the time of the session. By Dec. 29, 1956, Elvis Presley would have 10 songs on the Billboard Top 100 Chart, including “Hound Dog,” “Love Me Tender” and “Heartbreak Hotel.” Sun Records owner and producer Sam Phillips had sold Elvis Presley’s recording contract to RCA Victor on Nov. 21, 1955, for a reported $40,000.

Jerry Lee Lewis (1935 - 2022) first recorded his songs in 1952 and released his debut Sun Records single, “End of the Road” b/w a cover of Ray Price’s “Crazy Arms,” in December 1956. Jerry Lee Lewis’s first two hit songs, which he had been performing in concert, ”Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” went to No. 3 and “Great Balls of Fire” went to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in 1957.

Carl Perkins (1932 - 1998) recorded “Blue Suede Shoes” on Dec. 19, 1955, at Sun Studio, Memphis, Tenn. The record, released New Year’s Day, Jan.1, 1956, b/w “Honey Don’t,” went to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Elvis Presley covered “Blue Suede Shoes” on his first RCA Victor album, released March 23, 1956, and the single charted at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.

Johnny Cash (1932 - 2003) had several country chart hits recorded at Sun Studio, including “Hey Porter” and “Cry Cry Cry,” released in 1955; “Folsom Prison Blues,” which made the country Top 5 in 1955, and “I Walk the Line,” which hit No. 1 on the Billboard country chart and No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1956.

Looking ahead, Sam Philips refers to his next recording prospect, Roy Orbison as, to paraphrase, “some guy from Texas with a funny name.”

The Million Dollar Quartet was so-named from a headline in the Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper for an article written about the session by Bob Johnson with a photo of Elvis Presley at a piano with Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash.

It began as a Carl Perkins’ recording session with Jerry Lee Lewis on piano with Johnny Cash there when Elvis Presley and his girlfriend stopped by. A recording of the session was first released in 1981 with a more extensive recording released in 1990. The Broadway production of the musical opened in 2010.

The “Million Dollar Quartet,” with book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux, is ever-fascinating to fans of rock ‘n’ roll.

The NCC production, directed lovingly and convincingly by Clair M. Freeman, with music director Cason Day and choreographer Christina Sohn Williams, is scintillating fun with terrific singing and dancing and thoughtful performances about one of the most significant and somewhat fateful nights in the history of popular music. You will feel as if you were there.

The musical and the actors capture the raw power of rock ‘n’ roll (more or less rockabilly), an amalgam of rhythm and blues (black music, called “race records”), country and hillbilly music.

In the two-hour show with intermission, Act 1 has 10 songs. Act 2 has 13 songs, including one reprise. The June 8 performance was seen for this review.

Each actor sings and plays. The quartet is backed by two fantastic musicians, Kyle Lahr (Brother Jay) on standup bass (When we say “on,” yes, he sits right on the bass.), and Mike Lucchetti (Fluke) on drums, whose stick twirls and powerful drumming is eye-popping.

Brian Steinberg (Elvis Presley) has a pompadour that needs no introduction. Steinberg shakes, rattles and rolls his body as if he’s having a conniption. He has the Elvis slurred speech down. He sings like a house on fire on “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Hound Dog.”

Tommy Bergeron (Jerry Lee Lewis) is the class clown of the session, cutting up the ivories with his hands and feet. He plays stride piano astride the piano. He’s outrageously great on ”Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin.’”

Cason Day (Carl Perkins) is masterful on electric guitar. He sings sweetly on “Matchbox.” Day also creates a sympathetic character in his beef with Elvis Presley over “Blue Suede Shoes.” Who wore them best?

Bryant Cobb (Johnny Cash) is a languid presence who holds back just enough in one of the show’s plot point reveals. He sings “Folsom Prison Blues” and “I Walk The Line” with the right vocal inflections.

Travis Nugent (Sam Phillips) serves as a reliable and likeable narrator in the proceedings.

Lydia Walker (Dyanne, Elvis’s girlfriend) is rhapsodic as she prances around the stage with a coquettish strength. Her rendition of “Fever” is remarkable and hot. Her “I Hear You Knockin’” is sassy and solid.

The ensemble has wonderful harmonies on “Down By The Riverside” and “Peace in the Valley.”

The set by Brett Oliveira is impressive. The costumes by Brenda McGuire are great.

Here’s a BTDTGTTS (Been There, Done That, Got The T-Shirt) anecdote:

If you have the chance, visit Sun Studio, about the size of a two-car garage. I did on a trip to Memphis for interviews about the biopic, “Great Balls Of Fire” (1989), starring Dennis Quaid (Jerry Lee Lewis). I did purchase a Sun Studio T-Shirt.

At The Peabody Memphis hotel (Yes, I saw the march of the Mallards in the lobby), I interviewed Jerry Lee Lewis for “Hot Splices,” a movie star interview show I hosted on cable television. I was sitting almost knee-to-knee with Jerry Lee. I said, “Your cousin, Jimmy Swaggart, became a TV evangelist. You studied at a Bible college. Jerry Lee, why didn’t you become a minister?” Jerry Lee leaned toward me, looked me straight in the eyes and said, “Brother, if you can’t walk it like you talk it, don’t even try.”

The Bill Mutimer Summer Theatre Series production of “Million Dollar Quartet” walks it like it talks it. It’s the best rock ‘n’ roll show in town. If you’re a fan of the music, the rock ‘n’ roll quartet stars, and the 1950s era, it’s a must-see. And if you’re not a fan, this show will convert you.

“Million Dollar Quartet,” 7:30 p.m. June 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14; 2 p.m. June 8, 15, Bill Mutimer Summer Theatre Series, Lipkin Theater, Northampton Community College, 3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem Township. 484-484-3412, https://www.ncctix.org/