{"id":485097,"date":"2019-04-25T14:38:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=827429"},"modified":"2019-04-25T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:38:34","slug":"hair-metal-musical-rock-of-ages-returning-for-10th-anniversary-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hair-metal-musical-rock-of-ages-returning-for-10th-anniversary-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair Metal Musical \u2018Rock of Ages\u2019 Returning for 10th Anniversary Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-85857697.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The hit hair metal musical, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rock-of-ages\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rock-of-ages\" data-tag=\"rock-of-ages\">Rock of Ages<\/a><\/em>, will return for a special 16-week run this summer to celebrate its 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Rock of Ages<\/em> will be&nbsp;staged at the off-Broadway theater New World Stages and will run June 19th through September 29th. The show will be directed by Kristin Hanggi and choreographed by Kelly Devine with help from the musical\u2019s original Broadway design team. A cast for the revival has yet to be announced, though tickets are available now via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecharge.com\/off-broadway\/Rock-of-Ages?AID=obw001297400&amp;cm_mmc=Rock-of-Ages-_-Affiliate-_-web-_-obw001297400&amp;cm_mmca1=show_site&amp;_ga=2.6466930.1531301614.1556221417-1574625635.1556221417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Telecharge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Rock of Ages<\/em> premiered on Broadway in April 2009 and ran for six-years, racking up a total of 2,350 performances. The show received five Tony nominations, including Best Musical, while it also proved to be a global hit with successful runs in Toronto, Australia, England, Mexico, Korea and Japan. In 2012, <em>Rock of Ages<\/em>&nbsp;was turned into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/rock-of-ages-2-110560\/\">movie<\/a> starring Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti, Catherine Zeta-Jones and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Rock of Ages<\/em> is centered around a classic Eighties hair metal love story between an aspiring rocker\/busboy, Drew, and Sherrie, a country girl fresh of the bus, hoping to become a Hollywood star. The musical\u2019s soundtrack boasts a bevy of hit songs including Bon Jovi\u2019s \u201cWanted Dead or Alive,\u201d Twisted Sister\u2019s \u201cWe\u2019re Not Gonna Take It,\u201d Whitesnake\u2019s \u201cHere I Go Again,\u201d Poison\u2019s \u201cEvery Rose Has Its Thorn\u201d and Journey\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Believing\u201d (despite being named for it, Def Leppard\u2019s \u201cRock of Ages\u201d famously does not appear in the show).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hair-metal-musical-rock-of-ages-anniversary-run-827429\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hit hair metal musical, Rock of Ages, will return for a special 16-week run this summer to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Rock of Ages will be&nbsp;staged at the off-Broadway theater New World Stages and will run June 19th through September 29th. The show will be directed by Kristin Hanggi and choreographed by Kelly Devine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 01:35:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}