{"id":117899,"date":"2024-06-18T18:01:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/18\/the-heart-of-rock-and-roll-flatlines-huey-lewis-musical-to-close\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T18:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:01:48","slug":"the-heart-of-rock-and-roll-flatlines-huey-lewis-musical-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/18\/the-heart-of-rock-and-roll-flatlines-huey-lewis-musical-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Heart of Rock and Roll&#8217; flatlines: Huey Lewis musical to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-18\/Getty_HueyLewis_061724.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Bruce Glikas\/WireImage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Heart of Rock and Roll may still be beating, but it won\u2019t be doing so on Broadway much longer.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/heart-of-rock-and-roll-to-end-its-broadway-run-1235925603\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, the <strong>Huey Lewis<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>and the News<\/strong> jukebox musical, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Heart of Rock and Roll<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">,\u00a0will close after its matinee\u00a0on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show features such classic Huey Lewis and the News songs as \u201cHip to Be Square,\u201d \u201cWorkin For A Livin,\u2019&#8221; \u201cDo You Believe In Love,&#8221; \u201cI Want a New Drug,\u201d \u201cIf This Is It\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Love.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">The Heart of Rock and Roll<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> opened April 22 at the James Earl Jones Theatre, and will have played 24 previews and 72 performances by the time it closes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But it may not be the last folks see of the musical. Producer <strong>Hunter Arnold<\/strong> said in a statement that they are in talks for a national tour and international productions of the show.\u00a0The Broadway cast recording is also\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ffm.to\/horrobcr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>streaming now<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Glikas\/WireImage The Heart of Rock and Roll may still be beating, but it won\u2019t be doing so on Broadway much longer.\u00a0 According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Huey Lewis\u00a0and the News jukebox musical, The Heart of Rock and Roll,\u00a0will close after its matinee\u00a0on Sunday. The show features such classic<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/18\/the-heart-of-rock-and-roll-flatlines-huey-lewis-musical-to-close\/\">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],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117899"}],"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=117899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}