Rock of Ages in Las Vegas

[Adair Haywind]

Posted: 7/22/14 at 5:43pm

Anyone seen this production? How does it compare to New York? Are there any noticeable differences or is this just a carbon copy of the Broadway production? I know usually when a show moves to Vegas they tend to make it shorter than its original incarnation.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/22/14 at 5:48pm

I think the Broadway version is 90 minutes. If so, no cutting would be needed.

[Adair Haywind]

Posted: 7/22/14 at 5:51pm

The Broadway version has two acts and is 2 hours and 20 minutes.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/22/14 at 5:54pm

I stand corrected. I read somewhere it was 90 minutes

I guess judicious cutting will be in order for it to go to Vegas.

[Alessio2]

Posted: 7/22/14 at 7:16pm

I have not seen the Broadway production, but did see it in Vegas as my good friend Justin Mortelitti plays Drew. I asked him this same question when i saw the show a couple of months ago, and he said two songs were cut from the Vegas show. He said the show is more or less the same, only about 15 to 20 minutes shorter.

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 7/22/14 at 9:41pm

The Las Vegas version is 36% better because it is 36% shorter.

[wish i were here2]

Posted: 7/22/14 at 9:57pm

I saw at the show last year and one of the changes I found, by comparing what I saw to Wikipedia synopsis was "Harden My Heart/Shadows of the Night" takes place at the start of Act 2 instead of Act 1, so Sherrie performs "Here I Go Again" in her Act 1 attire rather than her Venus Club attire. Another thing that is different is there is no "I Wanna Rock (reprise)" in Act 2, I think. Also, the intermission for the Las Vegas production was cut down to 7 minutes. According to someone I asked who had seen the show on Broadway and tour, many lines were cut out. However, if you never saw the original production, like myself, you wouldn't notice any of these changes.

Updated On: 7/22/14 at 09:57 PM

[Islander_fan]

Posted: 7/22/14 at 11:00pm

Not going to lie, I am a little surprised that Rock Of Ages isn't truncated to an hour and a half like most Vegas bound Broadway shows. I've always felt that in NYC, going to the theatre was your night out. But, in Vegas, it's something that you do in between periods of gambling.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 7/22/14 at 11:08pm

The Vegas production is 90 minutes, with no intermission.

The Broadway production contains an intermission and is about 2 hours and 20 minutes.

[wish i were here2]

Posted: 7/23/14 at 1:20am

Oh, I guess the cut more out after I saw it in June 2013.

[Alessio2]

Posted: 7/23/14 at 2:19am

There isn't a full intermission, but instead a bizarre rushed 7 minute break.

[MarkBearSF]

Posted: 7/23/14 at 3:25am

I'd imagine that the version performed onboard the cruise ship is roughly the same as the Vegas version?

[Adair Haywind]

Posted: 7/23/14 at 9:06am

Would anyone happen to know specifically what cuts were made?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/23/14 at 9:39am

There isn't a full intermission, but instead a bizarre rushed 7 minute break.

Jersey Boys in Vegas does the same thing; it's not that bizarre. Does RoA have a countdown clock too?

[Alessio2]

Posted: 7/23/14 at 3:08pm

They did have a countdown clock. I just thought 7 was a weird choice. But what really annoyed me is that they didn't dim the lights alerting people the show was about to start again and several people were still in the bathroom line, or in my case in line at the bar:)

[darreyl102]

Posted: 7/23/14 at 3:25pm

7 minutes is no time at all. I mean, you can be in line that long to pee.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 7/23/14 at 6:59pm

Is this in the same theatre as what The Phantom of the Opera was in?