Hicks To Star On Broadway

AMERICAN IDOL winner TAYLOR HICKS will join the Broadway production of GREASE
next month (06Jun08) for a three-month stint as THE TEEN ANGEL.

The 31-year-old singer, whose Idol fan base was dubbed The Soul Patrol, plans
to add “soulful flavor” to his performance of the song Beauty School Dropout,
a tune originally made famous by Frankie Avalon in the 1978 film.

He says, “It’s a big number, and, you know, I’ve made some pretty grand
entrances before. And this one is probably the grandest entrance I’ve had in my
career.”

The grey-haired crooner, who won the TV talent competition in 2006, will end
his run at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on 7 September (08).

(PAW/WNWA/TN)