In 1972, singer/harmonica player Huey Lewis and keyboardist Sean Hopper joined the Bay Area jazz-funk band Clover. JSTOR ( September 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: 'Huey Lewis and the News' – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. ” (and here he mimics a scraping sound).This section needs additional citations for verification. And worse, low frequencies resonate and distort, and they distort so bad it sounds like. But I have tinnitus going ‘rrrrr’ all the time. I have a hearing aid and I can hear you, we’re conversing. They don’t know what it is - it’s hearing loss. “I’ve got this hearing issue right now, which is horrible,” he says. “And then of course there are most of the big ones, although ‘Heart and Soul’ isn’t in our show,” save for a name-drop at one point.įor Lewis, the past few months have been bittersweet to say the least even as “Heart” was ramping up, he had to cancel a concert tour after experiencing sudden, severe hearing problems in January. Her ex-boyfriend has an a cappella group, and they do ‘World to Me,’ ‘That’s Not Me’ and ‘Stuck With You’ a cappella. One of the musical highlights is “It Hit Me Like a Hammer,” which is sung by Cassandra. “We’ve gone pretty deep in the catalog, but not where I thought they’d go. Given the success of “Jersey Boys” and other jukebox musicals over the years - although Greenberg prefers the term “catalog musicals” for those built on existing music - the idea of hitching a show to the Huey Lewis hit train comes as no surprise. The choreographer is Lorin Latarro (Broadway’s “Waitress”), with music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations by Brian Usifer. And the show was written by Jonathan Abrams (of A&E Network’s “Bishop”), from a story by Tyler Mitchell (senior vice president of Imagine Entertainment) and Abrams. The director of “Heart” is Gordon Greenberg, whose Broadway directing credits include “Holiday Inn” he was previously at the Globe with “Working” in 2009. (Meanwhile: Doyle, by strange coincidence, is from the same tiny Northern California town where Lewis lived for many years he was obsessed with Lewis’ songs and used to spot him in the grocery store as a kid.) Those lead characters are played by two Broadway stars: Matt Doyle, whose Broadway credits include “Sweeney Todd,” “The Book of Mormon,” “War Horse” and “Spring Awakening” (and who also appeared on TV’s “Gossip Girl”) and Katie Rose Clarke, of “Miss Saigon,” “The Light in the Piazza” and “Wicked” (whose touring version she appeared in when the show visited San Diego in 2009).Ĭlarke also had a key role in the Broadway production of the Globe-bred “Allegiance,” although she did not appear in the musical’s world-premiere staging here.

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