Michael Gruber and Jason Gastwirth of Caesars Entertainment will develop the musical, while ZZ Top members – Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard – will serve as the show’s executive producers alongside their longtime manager Carl Stubner. Robert Cary and Jonathan Tolins (Grease Live!) will write the book for Sharp Dressed Man.

“We’re excited about this fantastic project and look forward to hearing our music in a new innovative context,” said Gibbons in a statement. “Fans have often told us that we’ve provided the soundtrack to their lives, and this is very much in line with that kind of enthusiastic thinking.”

The band also shared a synopsis for the show as part of the announcement: “Sharp Dressed Man is an outrageous, bawdy musical romp about a Lone Star auto mechanic who becomes a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing hearts — and car parts — with the help of his merry band of beer drinkers and hell raisers.”

ZZ Top’s focus in recent years was on tours rather than studio work. The band released their latest album La Futura in 2012, while also sharing a live album Tonite at Midnight: Live Greatest Hits from Around the World back in 2016.

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The tour will kick off on August 16 at the Sunlight Supply Amphitheatre in Ridgefield, Washington. It will take the band across 34 cities, until it wraps up in West Palm Beach, Florida on October 20.

Cheap Trick will serve as the tour’s primary opening act, with rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd making a special appearance during several shows. The band’s frontman, Billy Gibbons, couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to celebrate this special anniversary with their fans.

“It’s been five decades, and I think we’re starting to get pretty good at all this! We’re truly excited to be appearing across the continent this summer and fall, playing our bluesy kind of rock like we started in ’69,” he said in the official announcement of band’s upcoming tour.

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Michael Gruber and Jason Gastwirth of Caesars Entertainment will develop the musical, while ZZ Top members – Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard – will serve as the show’s executive producers alongside their longtime manager Carl Stubner. Robert Cary and Jonathan Tolins (Grease Live!) will write the book for Sharp Dressed Man.

“We’re excited about this fantastic project and look forward to hearing our music in a new innovative context,” said Gibbons in a statement. “Fans have often told us that we’ve provided the soundtrack to their lives, and this is very much in line with that kind of enthusiastic thinking.”

The band also shared a synopsis for the show as part of the announcement: “Sharp Dressed Man is an outrageous, bawdy musical romp about a Lone Star auto mechanic who becomes a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing hearts — and car parts — with the help of his merry band of beer drinkers and hell raisers.”

ZZ Top’s focus in recent years was on tours rather than studio work. The band released their latest album La Futura in 2012, while also sharing a live album Tonite at Midnight: Live Greatest Hits from Around the World back in 2016.

The post ZZ Top Rock Musical to Premier in 2020 in Las Vegas appeared first on Hot Pop Today.

The tour will kick off on August 16 at the Sunlight Supply Amphitheatre in Ridgefield, Washington. It will take the band across 34 cities, until it wraps up in West Palm Beach, Florida on October 20.

Cheap Trick will serve as the tour’s primary opening act, with rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd making a special appearance during several shows. The band’s frontman, Billy Gibbons, couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to celebrate this special anniversary with their fans.

“It’s been five decades, and I think we’re starting to get pretty good at all this! We’re truly excited to be appearing across the continent this summer and fall, playing our bluesy kind of rock like we started in ’69,” he said in the official announcement of band’s upcoming tour.

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