The Monkees Celebrated by Micky Dolenz

When: 8 p.m. Monday

Where: Belly Up, 143 S. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach

Tickets: $95-$167

Online: bellyup.com

fame — don’t even come close to the upsides.”

New book

Dolenz has a new, photofueled book — the 500-page “They Told Me I Had a Good Time” — due out later this year. He recently spoke for more than an hour about the book and tour from his home in Calabasas. His comments have been edited for length and clarity.

Q:We last spoke in 2015 to preview your “A Little Bit Broadway, A Little Bit Rock ’n’ Roll” show, and you said: “It’s scaring me to death! It’s way outside my comfort zone.” How did that go? Well, very well, as a matter of fact. Better than I expected. It was outside of my comfort zone in the sense that I hadn’t sung many of these songs outside of my own shower! But I was familiar with them and my mom had sung many of them in big bands and on Broadway.

A:Q:Any update on a proposed Monkees musical for Broadway?

A:

(sighs) There have been so many inquiries I can’t even tell you. Rhino Records owns the rights to The Monkees. They own the music, logo, the images, the clips of the show. The only thing they don’t own is domestic transmission rights to the TV series, which Sony owns. Rhino has been very positive and supportive of a possible musical. Whenever anybody calls about doing one, Rhino directs them to me and I talk to them. Invariably, they want to do a jukebox musical, which doesn’t interest me. I think there’s more there. I don’t know exactly what, but I think there is more.

Q:

What do you and the estates of the three