Pat Benatar and her husband Neil Giraldo have revealed they have started reworking their musical Invincible.

The musical, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, and built around songs from Benatar’s albums, debuted in late 2022 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.

“The place we’re at right now is about tearing it to shreds and starting over,” Benatar told Billboard. “We have the liberty to do that because we haven’t gone to even off-Broadway or anything like that. So we’re tearing it apart, doing a similar show but with a lot of different elements to it.”

After the changes, the musical will be “different and the same at the same time,” said Giraldo. “It will take it in a little different direction, maybe go back to the very beginning,” he said. “I think we got too far in the weeds with it and it started getting a little messy.”

The musical will feature classic Benatar/Giraldo tunes including “Love Is a Battlefield,” “Heartbreaker,” and “We Belong.”

Benatar says the process has been “exciting” and “fun,” and adds, “You just keep evolving ’til we get to the place we feel like it’s time to put it out there.”

It is not yet known when the musical will be out, but Benatar has suggested it could open next in Giraldo’s hometown of Cleveland.

“We love it there,” she said. “It’s a home kind of thing, as good as New York to us as a family place. It’s always fun to go there; the audiences are amazing, really receptive. So that’s possibly the first place to open in this (next) form.”

Source: RTT Music News