{"id":117870,"date":"2024-06-12T18:06:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/12\/dont-expect-to-see-a-bon-jovi-broadway-musical\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:06:32","slug":"dont-expect-to-see-a-bon-jovi-broadway-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/12\/dont-expect-to-see-a-bon-jovi-broadway-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t expect to see a Bon Jovi Broadway musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-12\/M_JonBonJoviABC_070524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Disney\/Chris Willard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While artists like <strong>Billy Joel<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong> and <strong>Tina Turner<\/strong> have had Broadway musicals written around their songs, it doesn\u2019t sound like you\u2019ll ever see one featuring the <strong>Bon Jovi<\/strong> catalog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been asked to do that 100 times,\u201d <strong>Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong> tells <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/podcasts\/bon-jovi-touring-future-taylor-swift-1236033365\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Variety<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0about the possibility of doing a jukebox musical.\u00a0\u201cEverybody wanted to write the story of Tommy and Gina [from &#8216;Livin\u2019 on a Prayer&#8217;], but I\u2019m going to guess that <strong>ABBA<\/strong> did it and <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Jersey Boys<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> did it, and they did it really well many, many years ago. So I have turned down that opportunity time and again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It seems\u00a0Jon feels like the band\u2019s story has already been told on the stage.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI do recall all those years ago when I saw <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Jersey Boys<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, and I went, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s our story.\u2019 That\u2019s every band\u2019s story. So our story isn\u2019t that unique,\u201d he explains. \u201cAnd then I thought, OK, if you take the characters of Tommy and Gina and build two and a half hours around the catalog and their life, then it\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Mamma Mia<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. So that\u2019s not unique.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Instead, Jon is working hard to get his voice back after having vocal surgery two years ago. And when he does, he hopes to get his band back onstage for a tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I know that none of us can achieve perfection, but I have to achieve excellence in order for me to do it on that level again, or I won\u2019t,&#8221; he says.\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t want to pretend to be something I was &#8230; I don\u2019t try to be that boy from 29 years ago, but I want to be the very best version of the 2024 version of me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney\/Chris Willard While artists like Billy Joel, Michael Jackson and Tina Turner have had Broadway musicals written around their songs, it doesn\u2019t sound like you\u2019ll ever see one featuring the Bon Jovi catalog. \u201cI\u2019ve been asked to do that 100 times,\u201d Jon Bon Jovi tells Variety\u00a0about the possibility of doing<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/12\/dont-expect-to-see-a-bon-jovi-broadway-musical\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}