Are You Ready To 'Rock'?

GOD how it pains me to post this, but....



an announcement of the London transfer is to made in the next 3 weeks.
All they need is the final contact from the theatre they have.
An October opening is planned.

Updated On: 3/11/10 at 04:29 PM

so Mark has somehow convinced me to go and see this with him..despite me protesting about how awful i think it is. However i do plan on being marginly drunk...

RIGHT!

I despised ROA when I first heard about it. I was like ugh, it wasn't even on my to see list when I went to New York.

THEN
I saw the Tony performance and thought hmm this might actually be alight. So I kept it in mind

THEN
I got rush tickets

And I LOVED IT!!!
ALOT.
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And I wasn't even drunk!!!

Is that artwork meant to be self-consciously naff or is it just naff?

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Im guessing Piccadily or Novello?

or, alternatively, just jump on the tube and listen to one of the many buskers sing any of the songs from this show... FOR FREE :p

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Got to say, id rather see this than Flashdance, at least the musics good

The thing about Rock Of Ages for me is... I love cheesy 70s/80s rock music, so it's right up my street. More so than We Will Rock You (although I obviously like Queen) because it clearly doesn't take itself in the slightest bit seriously.

peaches, I'd prefer to look at it more positively. It's not just that the West End's musical market is terrible - it's that the plays on at the moment are so awesome.

'the plays on at the moment are so awesome'.
-never a truer word.

I do think that what makes Rock of Ages a little different then most jukebox musicals is that they make several references to the fact that they are in fact, in a musical. Whereas, most other jukebox musicals try to treat themselves seriously and treat the songs as if they were in fact written for the show, when that in fact is not at all the case.

I do love this show and I do love the music in it. I am not, however, a fan of this whole notion that they gave themselves, that they were the little musical that could, due to the fact that they moved from Off Broadway and became a successful Broadway show. The only reason behind the move to Broadway was that they sold the film rights prior to the transfer, and it would be odd to make a film musical of an off Broadway show.

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Any Updates? 3 weeks have almost past