Rock of Ages

Synopsis

The “insanely fun” (New York Time Out ) worldwide smash hit Rock of Ages features a hilarious mix of 28 eyebrow-scorching tunes including Don’t Stop Believin’, We Built This City, The Final Countdown, Wanted Dead Or Alive, Here I Go Again, Can’t Fight This Feeling and I Want To Know What Love Is.

Set in LA’s infamous Sunset Strip in 1987, Rock of Ages tells the story of Drew, a boy from South Detroit, and Sherrie, a small-town girl, both in LA to chase their dreams of making it big and falling in love. ROCK OF AGES takes you back to the times of big bands with big egos playing big guitar solos and sporting even bigger hair!

The Rock of Ages show premiered in Los Angeles at The Vanguard Hollywood in January 2006 where it played for six weeks and was first seen in New York at the off-Broadway New World Stages in 2008. The production transferred to The Brooks Atkinson Theatre Broadway in 2009 and transferred to the Helen Hayes Theatre in 2011. The Rock of Ages theatre in London is the Shaftesbury Theatre until 2013 when it moves to the Garrick Theatre.

Whatsonstage.com have some great, cheap Rock of Ages tickets so don’t miss this awesomely good time about dreaming big, playing loud and partying on!

Contains strobe lighting and adult themes. Parental Guidance recommended.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 29 September 2011

There are very few musical theatre shows that are beyond critical evaluation, but Rock of Ages is probably one of them. It’s a question, really, of whether the audience for heavy-metal glam rock will find their way to the Shaftesbury to enjoy exactly the sort of music they already relish.

I’m not necessarily averse to this stuff, but I need audio sur-titles. I may as well be watching Shakespeare in Urdu or Mozart in Mongolian. The only critical tactic to adopt is one of either submission or resentment, and I veered violently between both conditions as the music crashed about me like huge waves on Surfers’ Paradise.

Every now and then I waved my pretend cigarette lighter in a futile gesture of participation as I’d long since given up trying to make notes about the plot, or detailed analysis of the musicology.

Ah, the plot, I nearly lost it: this involves a love story going slightly skewwhiff in a Hollywood music club, t...

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big, big shayne Fan) - 25 September 2012:

My last show was 23rd Sept,this was my 5 go,absolutely brilliant. it was the first casting last show, emotional for all. gonna miss it, Shayne Ward was amazeballs, JLcollins great, Simon Lipkin I wish I could bottle him and take him home !!! Go and see it everyone. If you don't enjoy then maybe you need to bring a little fun back in your life ....

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