{"id":2599,"date":"2010-03-03T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-12T07:12:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:12:05","slug":"what-s-the-next-rock-n-roll-themed-broadway-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-s-the-next-rock-n-roll-themed-broadway-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Next Rock &#8216;n Roll-Themed Broadway Musical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following topic was just phoned in by <strong>Townsman andyr<\/strong>. He apologized in advance for the sickening direction this thread is likely to take.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rjbCpXhTS00?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nBroadway&#8217;s latest rock &#8216;n roll-themed music is called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milliondollarquartetlive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Million Dollar Quartet<\/a><\/em>, which is &#8220;inspired&#8221; by &#8211; what &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Million_Dollar_Quartet\" target=\"_blank\">an hour or so of dicking around at a piano in Sun Studios<\/a> by <strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong>, <strong>Jerry Lee Lewis<\/strong>, <strong>Johnny Cash<\/strong>, and <strong>Carl Perkins<\/strong>. The results of this impromptu jam session, which sat in the can until 1981, were unwhelming, but unwhelming music didn&#8217;t stop the producers who decided to turn the career of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Movin'_Out_(musical)\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Joel<\/a><\/strong> into a musical stop the producers of <em>Million Dollar Quartet<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>What andyr wants to know is, <em>What&#8217;s the next rock &#8216;n roll-themed Broadway musical?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rth-exclusive-andrew-lloyd-weber-admits\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Previously.<\/em><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following topic was just phoned in by Townsman andyr. He apologized in advance for the sickening direction this thread is likely to take. Broadway&#8217;s latest rock &#8216;n roll-themed music is called Million Dollar Quartet, which is &#8220;inspired&#8221; by &#8211; what &#8211; an hour or so of dicking around at a piano in Sun Studios <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-s-the-next-rock-n-roll-themed-broadway-musical\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}