{"id":2134370,"date":"2025-11-04T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2134370"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:09:06","slug":"its-very-much-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/its-very-much-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s very much in motion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>AJR on &#8216;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8217; (Disney\/Randy Holmes)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now that\u00a0<strong>AJR<\/strong> has wrapped their Somewhere in the Sky tour and released a new EP,\u00a0<em>What No One&#8217;s Thinking<\/em>, the &#8220;Bang!&#8221; outfit has an opportunity to dive deeper into writing music for the upcoming\u00a0<em>Harold and the Purple Crayon<\/em> Broadway show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s chugging along, honestly,&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Jack Met<\/strong> tells ABC Audio of the project&#8217;s progress. &#8220;We have story being written, script being written, we have a bunch of songs already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AJR&#8217;s involvement in the\u00a0<em>Harold and the Purple Crayon<\/em> musical, which adapts the 1955 children&#8217;s book of the same name, was first announced back in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This stuff takes so long, there&#8217;s so many ups and downs and roadblocks you hit and stuff to get past,&#8221; Jack says. &#8220;But it&#8217;s very much in motion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jack adds that he&#8217;s very happy with the material so far and that he&#8217;s &#8220;itching to show people stuff already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We&#8217;re really excited,&#8221; Jack says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you&#8217;re already a fan of AJR, it sounds like their\u00a0<em>Harold and the Purple Crayon\u00a0<\/em>music will be right up your alley, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The Broadway show is sounding more and more AJR-ish,&#8221;<strong> Ryan Met<\/strong> says. &#8220;We&#8217;re kinda thinking about it more and more like, &#8216;Hey, this is kinda the next AJR album.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. 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