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HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#25
Posted: 10/12/23 at 10:47pm
Voter said: "Has anyone heard any updates on this?"
Hopefully not.
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#26
Posted: 10/13/23 at 12:38am
Voter said: "Has anyone heard any updates on this?"
Not an official confirmation, but Gordon Greenberg does say he’ll be directing this show on Broadway in 2024 on his website.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/20
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#27
Posted: 10/13/23 at 7:08am
Call_me_jorge said: "Voter said: "Has anyone heard any updates on this?"
Hopefully not."
Honestly, I'd be surprised if they don't delay. The premature press release was put out in the hopes of confirming a theater. This coming season of musicals is going to be literally cannibalistic, and a show that isn't guaranteed to survive isn't worth the money risk right now... at least that's what common sense says
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#29
Posted: 10/31/23 at 4:06pm
April opening at the Jones is confirmed, just waiting on exact dates to be announced tomorrow morning.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#30
Posted: 10/31/23 at 4:25pm
I love Huey Lewis but I think they were waiting for the right time, and with Back to the Future doing well, I guess they thought they could capitalize on that. Let's see if it pays off. With a great cast it absolutely could work.
Stand-by Joined: 9/7/14
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#31
Posted: 10/31/23 at 5:05pm
In general, I'm not a fan of jukebox musicals, but I saw this in San Diego and loved it.
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#32
Posted: 10/31/23 at 6:07pm
If we have to have another jukebox musical why can’t someone write one for Blondie?
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/11
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#33
Posted: 10/31/23 at 7:36pm
we don't have to have another jukebox musical, but we're stuck with lazy producers these days
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#34
Posted: 11/1/23 at 9:46am
Huey Lewis will be on Morning Joe in a minute “with a big announcement”.
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#35
Posted: 11/1/23 at 9:51am
Previews start 3/29 at James Earl Jones.
Updated On: 11/1/23 at 09:51 AM
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#36
Posted: 11/1/23 at 9:51am
Just announced!
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HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#37
Posted: 11/1/23 at 11:20am
Jordan Catalano said: "Previews start 3/29 at James Earl Jones."
That puts to bed any speculation that GUTENBERG might extend past January.
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#38
Posted: 11/1/23 at 12:12pm
Possible Andrew has to go right to working on “Tammy Faye”?
Stand-by Joined: 8/3/23
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#39
Posted: 11/1/23 at 12:55pm
RUkiddingme said: "we don't have to have another jukebox musical, but we're stuck with lazy producers these days"
Didn't this get terrible reviews out of town?
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#40
Posted: 11/1/23 at 12:57pm
I have to think this’ll be critic-proof - like A Beautiful Noise - and have a solid run.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/27/21
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#41
Posted: 11/1/23 at 1:13pm
This doesn't start til end of March, I could see Gutenberg squeezing a extra week or two if sales demand it but kind of wild to push out a show thats making about a million a week for something like this
Stand-by Joined: 8/3/23
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#42
Posted: 11/1/23 at 1:14pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "I have to think this’ll be critic-proof - likeA Beautiful Noise- and have a solid run."
I don't know. Beautiful noise is solidly boomer crowd age group who are known to be a solid ticket buying crowd. While Huey Lewis was popular he only really had a couple of big hits. Yes, I'm a Gen Xer, so this was my teenage music.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/20
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#43
Posted: 11/1/23 at 1:56pm
For the life of me, I can't figure out why someone would want to produce another musical this season. Especially one that'll take the backseat to the ones with deeper pockets...
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#44
Posted: 11/1/23 at 2:27pm
Sammy232 said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "I have to think this’ll be critic-proof - likeA Beautiful Noise- and have a solid run."
I don't know. Beautiful noise is solidly boomer crowd age group who are known to be a solid ticket buying crowd. While Huey Lewis was popular he only really had a couple of big hits. Yes, I'm a Gen Xer, so this was my teenage music."
Huey Lewis and the News had twelve Top 10 hits (and another that topped out at #11), including three #1s. Even if you just use the songs that charted that high, you have enough for a full score with reprises and such.
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#45
Posted: 11/1/23 at 2:42pm
BoringBoredBoard40 said: "This doesn't start til end of March, I could see Gutenberg squeezing a extra week or two if sales demand it but kind of wild to push out a show thats making about a million a week
It's a limited run. It's not being pushed out.
Stand-by Joined: 8/3/23
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#46
Posted: 11/1/23 at 3:04pm
perfectliar said: "Sammy232 said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "I have to think this’ll be critic-proof - likeA Beautiful Noise- and have a solid run."
I don't know. Beautiful noise is solidly boomer crowd age group who are known to be a solid ticket buying crowd. While Huey Lewis was popular he only really had a couple of big hits. Yes, I'm a Gen Xer, so this was my teenage music."
Huey Lewis and the News had twelve Top 10 hits (and another that topped out at #11), including three #1s. Even if you just use the songs that charted that high, you have enough for a full score with reprises and such."
I'm not saying he doesn't have enough songs to fill a score (although truth be told I'm having a hard time naming that many hits, but I believe you). My point was, I don't see this age demo being a big ticket buying group - I'm definitely an outlier amongst my peer group but I was always a "theater kid." In that same time frame there were significantly bigger artists on the scene - some of which we've had broadway shows from current/recent - MJ, Springsteen, David Bryne, and some we haven't, Prince, Bon Jovi, Madonna, all artists that had decades of staying power.
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#47
Posted: 11/1/23 at 3:28pm
Can't find it anywhere, but who was in the cast of this on their pre-Broadway tryout?
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#48
Posted: 11/1/23 at 3:30pm
I feel like this will go the way of "Margaritaville". The story is so weak and the songs are shoe-horned in so poorly. It takes place in a box factory...hence...insert "Hip to be Square". Ugh.
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HEART OF ROCK & ROLL to open on Broadway this season?#49
Posted: 11/1/23 at 3:30pm
ACL2006 said: "Can't find it anywhere, but who was in the cast of this on their pre-Broadway tryout?"
Old Globe cast: https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/18-19-season/the-heart-of-rock-and-roll/#?startDate=2023-11-01&?endDate=2023-11-30
2023 workshop cast: https://playbill.com/article/jonah-platt-katie-rose-clarke-tamika-lawrence-manu-narayan-more-cast-in-the-heart-of-rock-roll-workshop
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