John Mellencamp is the latest rocker to bring his music to Broadway. During a chat on NBC’s The Today show, Mellencamp revealed that the musical would not be the standard jukebox musical, meaning an artist’s biggest hits are strung together by a loose new storyline: “We’re getting ready to mount ‘Jack And Diane‘ as a Broadway musical. Every problem that this country’s going through today is in that musical. This is not a jukebox musical My ambitions are set very high. As close to (John) Steinbeck as we can get it — in today’s world, with these two kids.”
No opening date has been set for the musical.
“Jack And Diane” remains John Mellencamp’s only Number One hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 as “John Cougar” for a solid month starting on October 2nd, 1982.
