Paper Mill ’ s production includes James Barry ( Carl Perkins ), Scott Moreau ( Johnny Cash ), and Jake Rowley ( Elvis Presley ) from the national tour of Million Dollar Quartet . Jason Loughlin ( Sam Phillips ), Nat Zegree ( Jerry Lee Lewis ), Bligh Voth ( Dyanne ), David Sonneborn ( Fluke ), and Sam Weber ( Brother Jay ) round out the cast . Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster is the director . Moreau is approaching his 800th show portraying Johnny Cash . He ’ s also a huge fan of the Man in Black . He says he grew up a fan of the music of the era ( everything from Elvis to the Everly Brothers to Neil Sedaka ) because those were the records his parents had . When he first got involved with Million Dollar Quartet , playing Cash was a natural fit .
“ For me , it wasn ’ t going back to find Johnny Cash , I had always known who he was even as a kid ,” explained Moreau . “ I became a big fan in the 1990s when Cash started releasing the American Recordings , which became the last records of his life . Once I got into that , I couldn ’ t get enough . I started buying everything I could find - bootlegs and demo records . I started buying books and reading them voraciously .” You could say Moreau was born to play Cash . Shortly after he became a die-hard fan , Ring of Fire headed to regional theatre . Moreau wound up being part of that show several times . In fact , he was directing a production of Ring of Fire in Indiana when he got the call for the national tour
For me , it wasn ’ t going back to find Johnny Cash , I had always known who he was even as a kid