{"id":2115985,"date":"2025-10-26T05:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2115985"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:20:45","slug":"what-would-prince-be-saying-bobby-z-morris-hayes-work-toward-perfection-of-purple-rain-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/what-would-prince-be-saying-bobby-z-morris-hayes-work-toward-perfection-of-purple-rain-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"What would Prince be saying? Bobby Z, Morris Hayes work toward perfection of Purple Rain musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Purple Rain musical is continuing preview performances in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The official opening night is Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 6:30 p.m at the State Theatre with shows running locally through November 23rd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The show will soon head to New York for its Broadway debut, but an exact date for the has not been set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span><strong>MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9)<\/strong> &#8211; <\/span>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/people\/prince\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Purple Rain musical;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Purple Rain musical<\/a> is putting the finishing touches on its <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/things-to-do\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:preview performances;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">preview performances<\/a> at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:State Theater;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">State Theater<\/a> in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/us\/mn\/hennepin-county\/minneapolis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minneapolis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Minneapolis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Purple Rain musical<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What they&#8217;re saying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Purple Rain the Musical is putting the finishing touches on its preview performances at the State Theater in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_lpp56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_15pp56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prince music advisors are working to protect the legacy of Prince\u2019s music in the musical. Bobby Z, one of the members of Prince\u2019s iconic band The Revolution, and Morris Hayes was in the New Power Generation and was also Prince\u2019s musical director. Both are fiercely protective of Prince\u2019s legendary music and working toward perfection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When asked what Prince how often they think about what Prince would think &#8220;Every second of everyday, even during this interview,&#8221; said Hayes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tickets are on sale and can be found <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hennepinarts.org\/events\/purple-rain-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story uses information from a live interview with Prince&#8217;s former bandmates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief The Purple Rain musical is continuing preview performances in Minneapolis. The official opening night is Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 6:30 p.m at the State Theatre with shows running locally through November 23rd. The show will soon head to New York for its Broadway debut, but an exact date for the has not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2115986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[401149,401150,401151,351704],"class_list":["post-2115985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-morris-hayes","tag-preview-performances","tag-prince-music","tag-purple-rain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/What-would-Prince-be-saying-Bobby-Z-Morris-Hayes-work.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115987,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115985\/revisions\/2115987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2115986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}