{"id":63932,"date":"2015-09-29T18:46:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T01:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=63932"},"modified":"2015-09-29T18:46:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T01:46:26","slug":"zuiker-to-write-soul-train-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2015\/09\/zuiker-to-write-soul-train-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuiker To Write &#8216;Soul Train&#8217; Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the end of <I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i>, series creator <b>Anthony Zuiker<\/b> is moving on to his next project: he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2015\/09\/prweb12989376.htm\" target=\"_blank\">signed on<\/a> to pen a <i>Soul Train<\/i> musical for Broadway. The &#8220;lyrical narrative&#8221; will tell the personal story of <I>Soul Train<\/i> creator <b>Don Cornelius<\/b>, and it will include more than 20 classic songs such as &#8220;Proud Mary&#8221; (<b>Ike &#038; Tina Turner<\/b>), &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Around&#8221; (<b>The Spinners<\/b>), &#8220;Loving You&#8221; (<b>Minnie Riperton<\/b>) and &#8220;Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me&#8221; (<b>Gladys Knight &#038; The Pips<\/b>). Tony-nominated producer <b>Matthew Weaver<\/b> is producing the project, alongside co-producers <b>Jeff Tick<\/b> and <b>Nick Stern<\/b>, associate producer <b>Paula Kaminsky Davis<\/b>, and executive producer <b>Tony Cornelius<\/b>. Here&#8217;s a quote from Zuiker, followed by a tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I speak from the heart when I say that Soul Train touched me deeply. It has impacted this country on so many levels, bringing joy and hope to so many people out there, including me. I am truly honored that Matthew Weaver and the rights holders have trusted me to share this important story and look forward to bringing &#8220;Soul Train&#8221; the musical to Broadway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My next project for Broadway is&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ovKpnXBLD2\">pic.twitter.com\/ovKpnXBLD2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anthony E. Zuiker (@zuiker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zuiker\/status\/648649450307649536\">September 29, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the end of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, series creator Anthony Zuiker is moving on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":63933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[2913],"class_list":["post-63932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-zuiker"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuiker-soul-train.jpg",900,350,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuiker-soul-train-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuiker-soul-train.jpg",300,117,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuiker-soul-train.jpg",640,249,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuiker-soul-train.jpg",640,249,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuiker-soul-train.jpg",900,350,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuiker-soul-train.jpg",900,350,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuiker-soul-train.jpg",900,350,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuiker-soul-train.jpg",900,350,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuiker-soul-train.jpg",720,280,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-lv\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63934,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63932\/revisions\/63934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}