![]() When “The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star” was published, it was accompanied by a soundtrack by Sixx‘s side-project SIXX:A.M. And we can get into political angles, we can get into all kinds of angles, but really, it’s all about the heart, and the story is real, and what can we do with that story.” It’s taken people out in droves - it’s unbelievable - and it doesn’t need to be. I wanna see that over and over and over and over. The book had been out six days, and he was in the sixth day of his withdrawal. And he had his one-day chip from being one day sober. You’ve gotta let him come up here.’ And the guy came up and he started crying. He’s kicking.’ And the guy goes, ‘What do you mean he’s kicking?’ I go, ‘He’s kicking dope right now, dude. Do you want us to remove him?’ And I said, ‘No. And the security came up to me and said, ‘Hey, we’re a little scared, a little worried about that guy. And there was a guy coming up in the line and he was shaking and he was sweating. “And it was unbelievable - there wasn’t hundreds there was thousands and thousands of people coming to these book signings. “It was the sixth day that the book came out, and I was somewhere in America at a book signing,” Nikki recalled. Sixx went on to say that he hopes “The Heroin Diaries” musical will further inspire people struggling with addiction to begin the road to recovery. And it’s about getting awareness and taking away the stigma, so people will talk about it.” ![]() ![]() And we wanna bring that to Europe and the rest of the world. We have Faces & Voices, an organization in 50 states, along with governors. And we have bus companies, light companies, sound companies taking their profit off the table and doing it for cost. We’ve lowered the cost to go to a hundred cities instead of the traditional model of one Broadway or 20 major markets. “He put in the first million dollars, and we now have mayors across the United States. “Our lead investor is the CEO of Live Nation Ticketmaster,” Kovac said. And we’re very close to having all the pieces together so that it can come out very early next year.”ĬRÜE manager Allen Kovac told BUILD Series that the plan is for “The Heroin Diaries” musical to launch in the spring of 2020. “And so the timing for us is important, meaning it needs to happen now. “I’m really happy that the word ‘epidemic’ is attached to this crisis right now, but I’m also very frustrated that it took us so long to get here,” he continued. 7 on the New York Times Book Review non-fiction best-seller list.Įarlier this year, Sixx told U.K.’s BUILD Series about “The Heroin Diaries” musical: “The idea is to do with ‘The Heroin Diaries’ for the opiate epidemic what ‘Rent’ did for AIDS and HIV - to really shine a light on it and give back to communities locally, nationally and internationally. “The Heroin Diaries” was supposedly taken from actual journals Sixx kept in the late ’80s while in the grip of a near-fatal heroin addiction, was originally released in September 2007 via MTV Pocketbooks/ Simon & Schuster and debuted at No. Location: Pearl Studios, 500 8th Avenue, 4th Floor, between 35th and 36th Streets. Please bring picture and resume, stapled together. What to prepare: Please sing a rock song (no more than 32 bars in length) Please have a second song prepared, in case you are asked to sing it. The description of the role is as follows: Late 20s – mid/late 30s, Male, Caucasian. The musical, which will debut in early 2020, is being directed by David Esbjornson. An open call will be held for the role of MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx in the long-awaited Broadway adaptation of his memoir, “The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star”.
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