Huey Lewis' rom-com musical 'The Heart of Rock & Roll' finds a stage on Broadway in spring

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Huey Lewis, who with his band The News stormed radio in the 1980s with such rock-pop hits as “The Power of Love” and “I Want a New Drug,” is about to take his music to a Broadway stage. Lewis says the jukebox musical “The Heart of Rock & Roll,” constructed from Lewis’ songs, will play the James Earl Jones Theatre starting March 2024.

FILE - Musician Huey Lewis poses for a portrait in New York on Oct. 2, 2019. Lewis, who with his band The News stormed radio in the 1980s with such rock-pop hits as “The Power of Love” and “I Want a New Drug,” is about to take his music to a Broadway stage with “The Heart of Rock & Roll,” starting March 2024. FILE - Musician Huey Lewis poses for a portrait in New York on Oct. 2, 2019.

Lewis has tweaked some song lyrics to make them able to be sung by different people and in contexts he never initially anticipated. “The fun part of that is being able to hear these songs that we wrote tell a new story in a completely different way,” he said. “It’s an everyman story,” said Arnold. “It’s really a story about what do we actually want in life, and how do we decide that for ourselves.”

 

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