{"id":117986,"date":"2024-07-05T21:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/05\/pat-benatar-neil-giraldo-reworking-musical-invincible\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T21:01:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:01:10","slug":"pat-benatar-neil-giraldo-reworking-musical-invincible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/05\/pat-benatar-neil-giraldo-reworking-musical-invincible\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Benatar &amp; Neil Giraldo reworking musical &#8216;Invincible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-05\/Getty_PatBenatarNeilGiraldo_070524_0.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Michael Tullberg\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Pat Benatar <\/strong>and husband<strong> Neil Giraldo<\/strong>\u00a0are offering up an update on\u00a0their musical <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Invincible<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, a\u00a0retelling of Shakespeare\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Romeo &amp; Juliet\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">using their\u00a0music catalog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The musical\u00a0originally opened in late 2022 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, and after mixed reviews, Benatar now tells<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\"> <\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rock\/pat-benatar-neil-giraldo-stage-musical-invincible-1235725376\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0they are planning to totally rework the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe place we\u2019re at right now is about tearing it to shreds and starting over,\u201d Benatar shares. \u201cWe have the liberty to do that because we haven\u2019t gone to even off-Broadway or anything like that. So we\u2019re tearing it apart, doing a similar show but with a lot of different elements to it.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Giraldo adds that after the changes, the musical will be \u201cdifferent and the same at the same time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt will take it in a little different direction, maybe go back to the very beginning,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I think we got too far in the weeds with it and it started getting a little messy.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to the title song, the show features such classic Benatar\/Giraldo tunes as \u201cLove Is a Battlefield,\u201d \u201cHeartbreaker,\u201d and \u201cWe Belong\u201d and despite the setbacks, Benatar says the process has been \u201cexciting\u201d and \u201cfun.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">She notes, \u201cYou just keep evolving \u2019til we get to the place we feel like it\u2019s time to put it out there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So far there\u2019s no word on when or where exactly they plan to put it out there, although Benatar suggested it could\u00a0open next in Giraldo\u2019s hometown of Cleveland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. 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The musical\u00a0originally opened in late 2022 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, and after mixed reviews, Benatar now tells Billboard\u00a0they<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/05\/pat-benatar-neil-giraldo-reworking-musical-invincible\/\">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],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pat Benatar &amp; Neil Giraldo reworking musical &#039;Invincible&#039; - Magic 104.9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/05\/pat-benatar-neil-giraldo-reworking-musical-invincible\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pat Benatar &amp; Neil Giraldo reworking musical &#039;Invincible&#039; - Magic 104.9\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael Tullberg\/Getty Images Pat Benatar and husband Neil Giraldo\u00a0are offering up an update on\u00a0their musical Invincible, a\u00a0retelling of Shakespeare\u2019s Romeo &amp; Juliet\u00a0using their\u00a0music catalog. 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