Repeatedly I've risked mockery by suggesting that Taylor Hicks is the man America needs to bring back Huey Lewis style bar-rock. Give this champ an undeniable song, a video full of football players and a well-placed saxophone, and everybody's gonna yell "
Fore!" But my pleas in the name of aging alcoholics who don't want to go country or metal have potentially fallen on deaf ears, as the leader of the Soul Patrol is taking his pipes to Broadway. Hicks will be playing the "Teen Angel" in
Grease for three months over the summer, amusing and delighting Great White Way visitors of questionable taste who wouldn't know quality Spuds-rock if it bit them in the news. Tay, dude, you're above this!
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