Nichols Set for Broadway Debut

Country music superstar Joe Nichols has already built a fine reputation in the country music industry thanks to Billboard hits like “Brokenheartsville,” “Size Matters (Someday)” and “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” and now this inventive country crooner will spread his talents outside of Nashville and to the Big Apple, as he’s set to star in the upcoming Broadway musical Pure Country. The musical, based off the 1992 film starring George Strait, will open on Broadway in 2010, and recently Nichols got some expert advice from fellow country icon Reba McEntire, who made her Broadway debut in 2001 in the musical Annie Get Your Gun: “She told me, ‘On your day off you think you’re going to go sightseeing, you think you’re going to go to the Statue of Liberty, you think you’re going to do all this fun stuff. You won’t. What you will do is laundry and then you’ll sleep.’”

Not one to be scared off, Joe Nichols is embracing the opportunity to go on Broadway, saying, “I’m looking forward to it. It’s probably the only Broadway show I will ever land, but it’s really cool to get this one opportunity. It will be my first time actually living in New York City for an extended period of time.” While Pure Country won’t open until 2010, a sneak peek of the show can be seen this summer, thanks to the “Broadway in Bryant Park” series put on by the New York radio station 106.7, which will feature a slew of Broadway and off-Broadway shows on starting July 9 at the midtown greenery. Pure Country will get its time to shine on July 16, alongside The Little Mermaid, 9 to 5 and The Toxic Avenger.

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