![]() ![]() Yeah, you gotta’ wade through a lot of clichés here to the predictable finale but it’s a hell of a fun journey.Įrrr…because the finale is “Don’t Stop Believin” and, err…., that was a song by…anyway….Classic rockers Foreigner and Joan Jett will perform on the Illinois State Fair Grandstand stage on Aug. They’ve got bigger balls to worry about…as in the wrecking kind as a pair of German develops set out to turn the Strip into Yuppieville, USA. Glam royalty Stacee Jaxx, played to deviant perfection by Sam Harvey, is about to come between them. No, seriously, it works!Īhh, but all isn’t well for momma’s fallen angel and her wayward lover. That goes double for the meshing of Joan Jett’s “I Hate Myself for Loving You” and Asia’s “Heat of the Moment”. show standouts include Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive” and the interesting mashup of Pat Benatar’s “Shadows of the Night” with Quarterflash’s “Harden My Heart”. I mean, these tracks used to be tunes my mother would bang on the ceiling to get me to turn down, now they’re Broadway mainstream being sung by what the cast of Fame would be like if they’d pranced into a Mötley Crüe video. This being one of those jukebox musicals, you’re going to know all the numbers even if mixed up in medley form with a couple of lyric changes. You know, the Reagan era! Nominated for five Tony Awards, 10 years on this is still Broadway’s best party. ![]() One power chord later and the stage is transformed into L.A.’s Sunset Strip back in a sexier time. That ain’t metal, dude? I seriously can’t snap a pic or set fire to the place or even snap a pic of me setting fire to the place? Damn, man! Well, at least you promised this show would melt my face off. the show’s opening moments Lonny Barnett (John-Michael Breen), the show’s fourth wall braking narrator, tells us that we’re in for “an evening of musical decadence and debauchery.” That’s all kinds of sweet sauce, bro, but did you have to harshen my buzz by following that up with all these rules. Yup, if you wanted me to dive into a pool of hot, bubbling nostalgia, TD Place, you succeeded when you started playing Poison and Warrant. Pouring out from the speakers above the arena were some classics that didn’t make it into the production and upon their high octave octane squeals and wild guitar solos we road the waves of reverie. If the success of the production was measured by how much fun people had belting out the songs, this one’s kegs were overflowing before the lights went up and amps started squelching. Last night, the show’s 10 th Anniversary Tour thrashed into TD Place inviting everyone to hang on those promises in songs of yesterday. Well, here it comes again but not on its own. Hell, this musical mix tape of 70s and 80s glam metal actually power pumps its way down The Great White Way using Great White! Rock of Ages oozes out every last drop of this trend by way of Bret Michaels’ sweaty bandanna. ![]() if you’re a musical junkie, the kind who’s seen Mama Mia about 762 times since last Friday, you also know that to make a hit musical these days all you need do is dust off some popular songs of yesteryear, sculpt them into a somewhat coherent storyline, get your audience singing along and, crash, boom, bang, you’re heading to Broadway. ![]()
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