Stage
In the New York Times article about Cher’s musical, I learned these productions are called “jukebox bio-musicals” and the September 10, 2017 NYT reported that there has been a written but aborted Bruce Springsteen musical, (his one man show sold out in October but he nixed a musical based on his songs), and a list of artists with juxebox bio-musicals:
- Jersey Boys (The Four Seasons)
- Beautiful (Carol King)
- Mama Mia! (ABBA)
- Movin’ Out (Billy Joel)
Upcoming:
- Escape to Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffet)
- Donna Summer
- The Temptations
- Cher
- Tina Turner
The Rolling Stone article about Cher's jukebox bio-musical.
Book Memoir
Yes! A new Cher memoir is now officially a thing. Publisher HarperCollins has just won the rights to the book. We don’t know if a book actually exists yet or if it will take a few years to exist, but what great news. I was worried the Broadway show would be the only self-interpretation of Cher’s life we might get. Not that I’m complaining about that. But as a book nerd…yippee!
And I’m sure the book has the potential to have lots of salacious stories about Hollywood. And that’s always fun. But I really think the existing books (including her own The First Time) are mostly lacking evidence of her childhood and ancestry, both which have much more bearing on a person than backstage run-ins with Raquel Welch and Red Foxx. Although that is interesting too. There’s the cake and there’s the icing.
