Bruce Springsteen is ready to put his life on Broadway after the release of his new memoir, but the idea has yet to take root.
In his new book “Born to Run,” Springsteen opens up about “his rise from Jersey boy to rock icon,” People magazine noted. A self-narrated audiobook edition is set for release on Dec. 6.
The best-seller has some people weighing interest in turning the famous singer and songwriter's memoir into a musical on Broadway, the New York Post noted.
Springsteen told the Post's Michael Riedel that he is open to the idea but said he has “not yet” received any interest from Broadway.
Don Imus has been raving about Springsteen’s book on his radio show since it was published in September.
“The book is outstanding,” Imus said on his show, according to The Post. “Just a portion of his life would make a great musical.”
“I can’t imagine that a bunch of people haven’t already thought that,” he added.
Despite Imus’ strong feelings in favor of Springsteen’s book going from words on a page to musical, there was one producer who expressed reservations to Riedel.
“I haven’t read the book yet, but I’ve read about it – all the good reviews,” one top producer said, per The Post. “It can be tricky, though. Remember we had the Sting musical and the Bob Dylan musical. They didn’t work.”
Another producer seemed more optimistic about the singer putting his life on Broadway.
“There’s no question Broadway audiences are embracing rock and pop music more than ever,” the producer told Riedel. “Our audience is so much bigger now than traditional musical-theater fans.”
Springsteen’s story is compelling, going from his "hardscrabble childhood to his struggles in the music business of the ’70s to superstardom, with bouts of depression and anxiety along the way," the New York Post noted.
In a video showing Springsteen reading and excerpt from the book, the singer describes retrieving his father from a local bar as a child.
“Entering my father’s public sanctuary filled me with a thrill and fear. I’d been given license by mom to do the unthinkable: interrupt my pop while he was in sacred space,” Springsteen said in his memoir, People noted. “I’d push open the door, dodging men who towered over me on their way out. I stood waist-high to them at best, so when I entered the barroom, I felt like a Jack who’d climbed some dark beanstalk, ending up in a land of familiar but frightening giants.”
Springsteen will receive the Presidential Medal of Honor at the White House on Nov. 22, as he’s viewed as an artist that’s “helped shape American music and have challenged us to realize the American dream,” Whitehouse.gov noted.
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