From Yahoo!:
The director of the new Johnny Cash stage musical, "Ring of Fire," struggles to define exactly what the show is, but one thing is certain -- no one portrays the country music legend known as "The Man in Black." "This isn't a biography," director Richard Maltby told reporters on Wednesday at a rehearsal for the show that starts previews on Broadway next month for a March 12 opening. "It's 38 songs without connecting material, but it's not a revue," he said.
"It has a story, it has characters," he continued, but no plot. "It's some other kind of theater piece, a play made up of songs. It's a book-musical without a book."
Confused? All will become clear, Maltby said, when audiences see what he calls a classic tale of American life -- not Cash's own life but the story of an everyman who emerges from the songs he wrote.
...Producer Bill Meade spent five years persuading Cash to give his approval for a musical.... Meade said Cash was a big fan of Broadway and was excited about the prospect of a musical using his songs, though he was uncertain when the subject first came up. "He said, 'Do you feel that my material is good enough?"' Meade told Reuters.
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When it comes to Broadway shows, it's not the heat, it's the humility. (The same goes with karate.)
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