Invincible<\/em>, will prove to be just that as they continue to work on it \u2014 amidst several other projects the couple has going, both together and separately.<\/p>\n\n\tThe production, an adaptation of William Shakespeare\u2019s Romeo & Juliet <\/em>built around the pair\u2019s songs from Benatar\u2019s albums, debuted to mixed reviews during late 2022 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. \u2014 not long after Benatar and Giraldo were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now they\u2019re planning to bring it to New York this fall \u2014 not in performance, but to make what they say will be significant changes before bringing it back to the boards.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cThe place we\u2019re at right now is about tearing it to shreds and starting over,\u201d Benatar tells Billboard<\/em>. \u201cWe have the liberty to do that because we haven\u2019t gone to even off-Broadway or anything like that. So we\u2019re tearing it apart, doing a similar show but with a lot of different elements to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tGiraldo predicts that the next incarnation of Invincible<\/em> \u2014 which includes such Benatar favorites as \u201cHell Is For Children,\u201d \u201cLove Is a Battlefield,\u201d \u201cHeartbreaker,\u201d \u201cWe Belong\u201d and, of course, the title song \u2014 will be \u201cdifferent and the same at the same time. It will take it in a little different direction, maybe go back to the very beginning. I think we got too far in the weeds with it and it started getting a little messy. So maybe we\u2019ll be going back to breaking the rules a little bit, trying to be brave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tBenatar says the greatest lesson came in the way the duo\u2019s songs were adapted within the original version of the show. \u201cThe goal for the production we did was to do a hybrid of taking our music and reinventing it into a more theatrical form,\u201d she explains. \u201cSome of the songs didn\u2019t really work like that. Some of them can be augmented; \u2018We Live For Love,\u2019 for example, \u2018We Belong,\u2019 things like that work well in a theatrical form. But we learned that some of the arrangements that are on the original (recordings) are very exciting and actually work better (in the musical) if we keep them closer to the original. That was kind of a surprise, and a big lesson to learn. But that\u2019s something you can\u2019t learn until you put it in front of human beings to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tNeither is discouraged by the need to reboot, however. \u201cIt was a learning experience for us,\u201d Giraldo acknowledges. \u201cWe made mistakes. We learned great things along the way. It\u2019s a different kind of (endeavor) to be sure.\u201d Benatar, meanwhile, affirms that \u201cit\u2019s been exciting. It\u2019s been fun. You just keep evolving \u2019til we get to the place we feel like it\u2019s time to put it out there.\u201d They\u2019re not saying when that might be, but she has a where in mind \u2014 Cleveland, which is Giraldo\u2019s hometown.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe love it there,\u201d Benatar says. \u201cIt\u2019s a home kind of thing, as good as New York to us as a family place. It\u2019s always fun to go there; the audiences are amazing, really receptive. So that\u2019s possibly the first place to open in this (next) form.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe revived Invincible<\/em> is just one project Benatar and Giraldo \u2013 who return to the road Saturday, July 6, In Atlantic City with dates booked through mid-August \u2014 have targeted for the near future.<\/p>\n\n\tNext year will also see the release of a children\u2019s book the two are writing and composing companion songs for. They\u2019re keeping details, including the title and publication date, under wraps for now, but it\u2019s inspired by the relationships they have with their three grandchildren, two girls and a boy. \u201cIt\u2019s about everything we do and everything they do\u2026and it\u2019s about music,\u201d Benatar says. \u201cIt\u2019s sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tOn his own, meanwhile, Giraldo is continuing work on two long-gestating endeavors \u2014 a memoir and an all-star holiday album he\u2019s been working on with some of his musical friends. He\u2019s also recording an album with former Benatar band drummer Myron Grombacher, a friends from his early days in Cleveland and in Rick Derringer\u2019s band. The guitarist says the two plan to reconvene after he and Benatar tour this summer, working as just the two of them, but they\u2019re open \u201cto have some guest people on board\u201d if it feels appropriate. \u201cWe\u2019ve got about 21 songs,\u201d Giraldo reports. \u201cWe were childhood friends, so this is what we do \u2014 just make music, have a great time playing and do the best you can.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIt\u2019s been a minute since Benatar and Giraldo have released new music of their own as well. Their last full album was Go<\/em> in 2003, while there have been some one-off singles and soundtrack contributions between 2015-2020 \u2014 most recently \u201cTogether.\u201d They also joined Dolly Parton for her version of \u201cHeartbreaker\u201d from last year\u2019s Rockstar<\/em> album.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s a possibility, if the time feels right,\u201d Giraldo says. \u201cIt\u2019s not like we don\u2019t have a lot of material. We do have a lot of songs. Here\u2019s the deal\u2026the best records, I believe, are done in 29 days; you just get in there, do it and get done. You have to be able to block that time out so your primary focus is on that recording. That is the most difficult part. As you get older\u2026it\u2019s hard to find that block.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBenatar, however, sounds ready for it. \u201cWe have about 125 songs around, waiting to be recorded,\u201d she says, laughing as she adds, \u201cIf you can get my husband in there to do it, please be my guest.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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