David Bryan & Joe DiPietro Feel like Rock Stars After Their Tony Win

Entering the Tony Awards press room, Memphis' newly minted best score and best orchestrations winner David Bryan smiled widely, declaring that the Tony "just adds to being a rock star." The Bon Jovi rocker added, "I don't know if it can get any better, being in the biggest band in the world, and to step outside of that and go into a world that's new to me, I just wanted to learn the craft and get better at what I do. You have to be fiercely passionate and never lose faith." The rocker was also thrilled to have worked on one of the few completely original musicals this season, which he terms "future revivals."

Lyricist and book writer (and now a double Tony winner) Joe DiPietro revealed that he plans to keep rocking on with Bryan. Their next show, already in the works, is tentatively titled Chasing the Song. "It's truly an American story," DiPietro said of the show, which will follow the story of song writers in the early 60s working in New York's famed Brill Building until The Beatles invasion took over the music industry. "It's not a revue!" he stressed, noting that, much like Memphis, he and Bryan will write original music in the 60s style.