Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 10:57:51 -0600
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From: joel@chaos.bsu.edu
To: joel@chaos.bsu.edu (Billy Joel Fan Club)
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Subject: Musical (Piano Man) coming soon ??
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X-Author: temp3158@mach1.wlu.ca (Michael Temporale u)
What follows is printed in Friday edition of the Toronto Sun, Jan. 21 1994.
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	Broadway Billy Joel: Does Billy Joel have the stuff to be the next
Webber? The Who's Pete Townshend -who's already blazed the trial from rock
to rockettes with his broadway version of 'Tommy' - has prevailed upon Joel
to follow him into the genre, says the palooka pop-rocker who plays Maple
Leaf Gardens tomorrow.
	Other people have suggested it, Joel told us, 'but I didn't really take
it seriously until Pete asked me to do it. It was at the Cleveland Rock n
Roll Hall of Fame groundbreaking thing where we were all supposed to dig
with shovels and wear those stupid hats.'
	'I didn't wanna wear that hat, and Pete didn't wanna wear the hat. And
he said, 'I don't wanna wear the hat, you don't wanna wear the hat ... let's
talk!' And we went off and he said he really thought I should try to write a 
Broadway show.
	'And I thought, this is such a bizzare twist that one of my idols when
I was growing up - Pete Tonwshend, windmill guitar god, y'know, destroyer
of expensive amplification equipment - wants me to write a Broadway musical.
I'd like to try it.'
	Joel's in the middle of what he claims is his last major tour, and it'll
likely be year-end before he'd consider tackling 'Piano Man: The Musical'
(or something).
	Ironically, tomorrow's concert is a make-good for a show Joel cancelled
in November - ironic because at the time he'd been giving these Iron Man 
interviews, showing his scars. Over a few drinks in Philadelphia, he'd
squooshed his boneless thumb - a souvenir of a 1982 motorcycle accident - 
onto a table full of peanut shells, to show me how pain and injury don't
slow him down.
	And then he cancelled because of a sore throat. I'm not saying he wasn't
justified in cancelling, y'understand. It just seemed funny.

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the opinoins expressed above are not necessarily mine, but those of a 
Jim Slotek, of the Toronto Sun Newspaper. Once again the article was
printed in the January 21st edition 1994.


-- 
later,
			mike

This sig is brought to you by the letter S, and the number 6.
'Do not try. Do or do not, there is no try.' Yoda
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        Last weekend I was lucky enough to see Billy Joel in concert at Maple 
Leaf Gardens in Toronto. He played a solid two hours of great songs - As 
a piano player and big fan of his music, I thought he was just amazing on 
the piano's and keyboards! One of my favorite albums is Songs in the 
attic because it captures some of the feel of his concert. I was hoping 
that he would play "Captin Jack" or "Miami 2017" two of my favorites from 
that album but I couldn't complain about the songs he chose (except maybe 
for "We Didn't Start the Fire") Highlights for me were A nice version of 
"An Innocent Man" with the female percusionist singing the high parts, A 
rocking "Angry Young Man". The croud was entirely on their feet for a 
virtualy non-stop three-song combo of "Still R&R to Me", "Only the Good 
Die Young" and "You May be Right". Two experiences from the concert I 
won't soon forget are the sound of the Hellicopters and crickets in 
"Goodnight Saigon" and the audience singing the chorus to "Piano Man" in 
unison during his second encore!