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Rock of Ages is the story of a bartender/struggling musician looking for his one chance at love and the spotlight — but gets thwarted by the seedier sides of both. Boasting 30 classic lighter-waving anthems by Poison, Journey, Ratt, Twisted Sister and much more, the ’80s arena-metal musical opens its curtains in New York next Monday. After runs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, the off-Broadway play has found a perfect lead in American Idol rocker Constantine Maroulis, whose theatre experience (he was in the touring company of Rent) and much-celebrated position as the original long-haired Idol rocker bring the overload of drama and bombast to the already dramatic and bombastic songs of the Aqua-Net age.
“When we learned that it was going to be coming to New York officially, of course we were very interested,” says Maroulis, who originally considered for the lead role of awkward bartender and aspiring […]

Original post by Christopher R. Weingarten and software by Elliott Back

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