It is 1987 and the fabled West Hollywood club the Bourbon Room is the seedy, sordid, vibrant heart of the Sunset Strip. The music venue has seen better days but is run by chilled-out former rock impresario Dennis Dupree and tended to by Dennis’s assistant Lonny, it is the essence of rock and roll. When bright-eyed young hopeful Sherrie, a small-town girl hoping to make it as an actress, arrives in town, she bumps into Drew, a Bourbon Room busboy with dreams of rock and roll stardom.
Love-struck Drew convinces Dennis to hire Sherrie, and the stage seems set for romance. But when the Mayor of West Hollywood, persuaded by a couple of scheming German real estate developers, announces his intention to demolish the Bourbon Room and the entire Sunset Strip, the stakes are raised.
Dennis convinces rock god Stacee Jaxx, lead singer of megaband Arsenal, to play the band’s last show at the Bourbon Room, hopeful that the money raised will stop the building from being demolished. But Stacee, a man of massive charisma and equally massive ego, leaves chaos in his wake. In the midst of violent anti-demolition protests, Sherrie, sacked by Dennis, ends up in a nearby strip club and Drew is persuaded to join a boy band. Who can save the Bourbon Room, the young lovers, and the feuding Germans? Only Lonny knows for sure.
Rock of Ages is a big, brash, energetic tribute to classic rock, over-the-top ballads and fierce guitar, combined with the gritty glamour and rough energy of the Sunset Strip. This jukebox musical features ‘80s hits such as “We Built this City”, “I Wanna Rock”, “Don’t Stop Believin’” and “ I’ve Been Waitin’ For A Girl Like You” and is brought to you by the team that graced the Hull Truck stage last summer with the spectacularly successful “Kinky Boots”.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
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