Did you see the Rascal Flatts – Changed: Movie Theatre Event on Thursday evening? Check out Billboard’s review of the night +here.

Superstar country music trio Rascal Flatts, in conjunction with AEG Live and NCM Fathom, held a one-night only special theater event in New York City on Thursday evening, titled Changed, to coincide with the release of the band’s eighth studio album of the same name, which hit retail two days earlier. The film was broadcast to over 600 theaters nationally.

The trio — Jay DeMarcus, Gary LeVox and Joe Don Rooney — were in attendance at the Red Carpet VIP screening at AMC Empire Theater in New York’s Times Square among a crowd of record label executives, radio programmers, industry luminaries and – fitting for the theme of the documentary/performance hybrid — family.

Produced by Shaun Silva and directed by Don Lepore, the film opens with the act taking questions from an intimate audience at the Franklin Theater in Franklin, Tennessee prior to a performance at the venue. The initial feeling that Changed will be nothing more than a taped Q&A/concert footage file subsides quickly as the film takes the viewer into the personal lives of each band member with separately taped interviews which are interspersed with performance footage from the Franklin Theater as well as more low-key song renditions taped at a Nashville studio.

DeMarcus, LeVox and Rooney speak from the heart about a host of subjects, starting with poignant memories of their parents and grandparents who knowingly or unknowingly nudged them into a music career. They reminisce about childhood memories and the passing of loved ones, and reflect on how, after 13 years together, they have gone from three single men trying to succeed as a band to husbands and father, a path which has made them more grounded in their personal and professional lives.

It is the clips of the Flatts guys at home with their families that struck the largest chord with the audience, as each member became visibly choked up discussing how much the love they received from their family growing up has now been passed on to their young children. You can see the joy and pride in each of their eyes as they discuss what their family means to them and how the life of a musician often-times plays havoc on the quality time a father and husband longs for with his family.

Read the entire Billboard article +here!