In 1987 on the Sunset Strip, a small town girl met a big city rocker and in LA's most famous rock club, they fell in love to the greatest songs of the '80s. It's ROCK OF AGES, an arena-rock love story told through the mind-blowing, face-melting hits of Journey, Bon Jovi, Poison and many more. Don't miss this awesomely good time about dreaming big, playing loud and partying on.
The five-time Tony Award nominated musical ROCK OF AGES moved from The Brooks Atkinson Theatre to the Helen Hayes Theatre, opening March 24, 2011. ROCK OF AGES played its final performance at The Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Sunday, January 9, 2011.
In the ’80s, let’s say you never grew a mullet, squeezed into acid-washed jeans or threw the horns at a Quiet Riot concert. Doesn’t mean that the pop hits of the period didn’t fuse with your hormones and secure an unassailable seat in your pleasure center. That sweet spot is exactly what the insanely fun mixtape musical Rock of Ages relentlessly tickles, with its familiar heavy-metal ballads married to an impish, self-mocking book. Think it’s just a cheap retro goof? Rock of Ages shatters irony with a killer drum solo, then melts the wreckage with a smoking guitar riff.
The volcanic locks and endless guitar solos are tethered to a thin plot concocted from showbiz clichés spruced up in skin-hugging leather and acid-washed denim. But so what if the story is stale as the air in a dive bar at 6 a.m.? Mr. D’Arienzo, Ms. Hanggi and their ace designers (costumes by Gregory Gale, hair and wigs by Tom Watson and sets by Beowulf Boritt) mockingly evoke the sights, sounds and smells of the era with an affection so pure and an aesthetic so archly on-target that the familiar is freshened by a festive parade of gumdrop-colored lingerie and pungent grunge. When somebody pulls out a four-pack of Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers, the audience roars as if at a punch line of supreme perceptiveness.
2006 |
World Premiere |
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2008 | Off-Broadway |
Original Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
2009 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
2010 | US Tour |
1st National Tour US Tour |
2011 | West End |
Original London Production West End |
2011 | US Tour |
National Tour [Phoenix Entertainment] US Tour |
2019 | Los Angeles |
Los Angeles Regional Production Los Angeles |
2021 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway Revival Production Off-Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2009 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Wesley Taylor |
2009 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway | 0 |
2009 | Theatre World Awards | Performance | Wesley Taylor |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Gregory Gale |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Kristin Hanggi |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Sara Katz/Jayson Raitt |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | The Araca Group |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Michele Caro |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Happy Walters |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Laura Smith/Bill Bodnar |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Prospect Pictures |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Michael Wittlin |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | David Kaufman/Jay Franks |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Max Gottlieb/John Butler |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Matthew Weaver |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Israel Wolfson |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Susanne Brook |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Charles Rolecek |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Simon and Stefany Bergson/Jennifer Maloney |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Paula Davis |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Toni Habib |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Hillary Weaver |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Janet Billig Rich |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Corner Store Fund |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Relativity Media |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Scott Prisand |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Barry Habib |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Carl Levin |
2009 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Musical | Peter Hylenski |
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