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In an interview with NBC in December, Mellencamp said, \"We're getting ready to mount 'Jack and Diane' as a Broadway…musical.\"

He also noted that \"every problem that this country's going through today is in that musical. This is not a jukebox musical. My ambitions are set very high, as close to [John] Steinbeck as we can get it in today's world, with these two kids.\"

Mellencamp's latest album, \"Other People's Stuff,\" was released in December.

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