{"id":486129,"date":"2019-05-21T06:28:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T12:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=838001"},"modified":"2019-05-21T06:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T12:28:44","slug":"zz-top-announce-rock-musical-coming-to-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/zz-top-announce-rock-musical-coming-to-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"ZZ Top Announce Rock Musical Coming to Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ZZ003-Version-55.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A new rock musical featuring the hits of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/zz-top\/\">ZZ Top<\/a> is in development. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/las-vegas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_las-vegas\" data-tag=\"las-vegas\">Las Vegas<\/a>-based Caesars Entertainment, led by Michael Gruber and Jason Gastwirth, are developing the show, titled&nbsp;<em>Sharp Dressed Man<\/em>, set to premiere in 2020. It will include ZZ Top members Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard as executive producers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSharp <em class=\"p74j0csfpmbsi-\">Dressed Man<\/em> is an outrageous, bawdy musical romp about a Lone Star auto mechanic who becomes a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing hearts \u2014 and car parts \u2014 with the help of his merry band of beer drinkers and hell raisers,\u201d a press release for the show stated.<\/p>\n<p>Also producing the show are Prem Akkaraju and Carl Stubner, ZZ Top\u2019s longtime manager. The show\u2019s book was written by Robert Cary and Jonathan Tolins, who together wrote the teleplay for Fox\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Grease Live!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"pspuhjsaxo6dv-x_MsoNormal\" align=\"center\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited about this fantastic project and look forward to hearing our music in a new innovative context,\u201d said ZZ Top\u2019s Billy Gibbons in a statement. \u201cFans have often told us that we\u2019ve provided the soundtrack to their lives, and this is very much in line with that kind of enthusiastic thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/zz-top-musical-sharp-dressed-man-las-vegas-838001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new rock musical featuring the hits of ZZ Top is in development. The Las Vegas-based Caesars Entertainment, led by Michael Gruber and Jason Gastwirth, are developing the show, titled&nbsp;Sharp Dressed Man, set to premiere in 2020. It will include ZZ Top members Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard as executive producers. \u201cSharp Dressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 17:41:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}