Corey Cott and McKenzie Kurtz in “The Heart of Rock and Roll” on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre in New York. NEW YORK — Back in the 1980s, Huey Lewis and the News were sometimes compared to The Cars and even Elvis Costello, but their string of catchy hit singles also had the distinctive everyman air of flowing out of a bunch of regular dudes, Joe six-packs who could just as easily have been headlining at your local tavern and carrying out their own amps.
Ideal fodder, then, for a modestly scaled and warm-hearted jukebox show that might just prove to be one of the sleeper hits of the season, thanks to an inestimably witty book with plenty of what comedians like to call hard laughs, a suite of winning lead performances under director Gordon Greenberg and anothersuite of choreography from Lorin Latarro, who sure has shaken up Broadway movement this season.
The premise here is that the Huey-like, working-class Bobby has given up on his dreams of being in a successful band and gone to work for a Wisconsin cardboard box company . But you can’t keep an ambitious guy down and so Bobby crashes a sales convention in Chicago’s Drake Hotel, simultaneously trying to prove to the owner of the company Stone and his daughter Cassandra that he can strike a deal with an IKEA-like mogul, Fjord for more boxes than Milwaukee has Miller Lites.
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