If you’re going to set your musical in a cardboard box factory, why not have your chorus tap dance over bubble wrap?
If only “The Heart of Rock and Roll” were so silly every moment of its two hours and 20 minutes. Offering more than two dozen songs by Huey Lewis and the News, this jukebox musical opened Monday at the James Earl Jones Theatre.
There are way too many dead parents in Jonathan A. Abrams’ book about a Sammy Glick-like hustler named Bobby (Corey Cott). He’s the rocker who gives up his life on the stage so he can make deals selling boxes.
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