Read a preview of “Hockey the Musical,” from FREEP
Put the words “hockey” and “musical” together, and the first thing people will likely do is laugh.
That’s just fine with Mitch Albom, who wants nothing more out of “Hockey, the Musical!” than to have audiences rolling in the aisles. His new show, which opens Thursday at City Theatre inside Detroit’s Hockeytown Cafe, finds five random people from the U.S., Canada and Russia banding together to save the sport of hockey from being eradicated.