This show rocks!!! We love, love, loved it!!! Although this electrifying show has been in New York City since 2008 (and before NYC it started in Los Angeles in 2005), we feel it still deserves a place on our BEST list because it is the BEST. Rock of Ages is a lighthearted and comedic, blow-up, blast-off, celebration of classic rock hits from the 1980s. The great rock music that we hope your kids will love it as much as you will because music has never been the same again. This jukebox musical showcases the glam metal bands of the 80s. Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Bon Jovi, Poison, Steve Perry and many more. This clever show took these mindblowing songs and made an entertaining arena-rock love story out of them.
If you don’t want to know anything about the storyline, don’t continue to read anymore. Either way, your eyes and ears will receive a treat that and the show will stay with you for a long time after it’s over. The music is the best part, and the audience really gets into it, singing along all the way. It’s a show, but also a private concert.
In 1987 on the famous and thrilling Sunset Strip, Sherry, an aspiring actress from small-town Kansas, meets Drew, an aspiring rocker who works as a busboy in a Hollywood Club, the Bourbon Room. Drew gets Sherrie a job at the Bourbon Room as a waitress. Simultaneously, on the other side, the Mayor wants to get rid of ‘sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll’ to clean up the city. To generate as much money as possible before his club is demolished, the owner hires a huge rock star, Stacee Jaxx, and his band to play their last gig at the Bourbon Room.
In the meantime, Drew struggles to write lyrics and Sherrie urges him to go after his dreams. As they start to have feelings for each other, neither one thinks it is reciprocal, even after a picnic in the hills overlooking Los Angeles at the Hollywood sign. Next Stacee Jaxx arrives at The Bourbon and gives an interview about his life. Sherrie is immediately smitten with him. Believing she means nothing to Drew, she has sex with Stacee in the men's room as Drew opens for Stacee and Arsenal, not knowing a record producer is in the audience. After their tryst, Stacee tells Dennis to dismiss Sherrie before the concert begins. His guitarist realizes what Stacee did and knocks him out. The record producer in the club was impressed with Drew's performance and suggests he take over for Stacee. He then offers Drew a contract, which he accepts. Sherrie seeks comfort from Drew after she's fired, but having seen her go into the men's room with Stacee, he dismisses her.
An upset and unemployed Sherrie meets Justice Charlier, the owner of the nearby Venus Club, which Justice prefers to call a "gentleman's club." She relates to Sherrie's story, saying that many of the small-town girls hoping to hit it big in LA end up making a living as strippers. Grudgingly, Sherrie accepts Justice's offer to work in her club. As the first act closes, everyone is alone – Drew, as an upcoming rock star; Sherrie, fending for herself as an exotic dancer; Regina protesting the redevelopment; and Dennis, trying to save his club.
In Act 2, Drew's rocker image is upsetting the record producer, and Sherrie is learning how things work at the Venus Club. When they meet on the street, Sherrie is embarrassed about her job and Drew is upset that his record company is attempting to reshape him into part of a boy band. They argue and Sherrie admits that she was crazy about Drew, but failed to make a move because he said they were friends. They part ways more troubled by these new revelations. A drunken Stacee arrives at the Venus Club and is pleased to see Sherrie. After being forced to give him a lapdance, she beats him up while dancing. Drew arrives to admit his feelings to her, but becomes angry when he sees the two in a suggestive position and storms off. Later Drew hears that as soon as he left, Sherrie had punched Stacee in the jaw.
The Bourbon Room is on its way to being demolished, Sherrie decides to leave the Venus Club after the scene with Drew, and everyone is in turmoil as they attempt to move on with their lives. Drew, now a pizza delivery boy, realizes none of his dreams have come true—he still is not a rock star, and Sherrie is leaving on a midnight train. Lonny arrives and explains to Drew that his life is so miserable because they are all characters in a musical and that it was their book writer who made it so. He also reveals to Drew that he serves as the show's "dramatic conjurer" that if Drew wants a happy ending, it is up to him to get the girl. After hearing this, Drew realizes that he does not need fame to make him happy, only Sherrie. He reaches her at the train station in time, and they realize that their love has survived all their trials and reconcile.
In the meantime, Drew struggles to write lyrics and Sherrie urges him to go after his dreams. As they start to have feelings for each other, neither one thinks it is reciprocal, even after a picnic in the hills overlooking Los Angeles at the Hollywood sign. Next Stacee Jaxx arrives at The Bourbon and gives an interview about his life. Sherrie is immediately smitten with him. Believing she means nothing to Drew, she has sex with Stacee in the men's room as Drew opens for Stacee and Arsenal, not knowing a record producer is in the audience. After their tryst, Stacee tells Dennis to dismiss Sherrie before the concert begins. His guitarist realizes what Stacee did and knocks him out. The record producer in the club was impressed with Drew's performance and suggests he take over for Stacee. He then offers Drew a contract, which he accepts. Sherrie seeks comfort from Drew after she's fired, but having seen her go into the men's room with Stacee, he dismisses her.
An upset and unemployed Sherrie meets Justice Charlier, the owner of the nearby Venus Club, which Justice prefers to call a "gentleman's club." She relates to Sherrie's story, saying that many of the small-town girls hoping to hit it big in LA end up making a living as strippers. Grudgingly, Sherrie accepts Justice's offer to work in her club. As the first act closes, everyone is alone – Drew, as an upcoming rock star; Sherrie, fending for herself as an exotic dancer; Regina protesting the redevelopment; and Dennis, trying to save his club.
In Act 2, Drew's rocker image is upsetting the record producer, and Sherrie is learning how things work at the Venus Club. When they meet on the street, Sherrie is embarrassed about her job and Drew is upset that his record company is attempting to reshape him into part of a boy band. They argue and Sherrie admits that she was crazy about Drew, but failed to make a move because he said they were friends. They part ways more troubled by these new revelations. A drunken Stacee arrives at the Venus Club and is pleased to see Sherrie. After being forced to give him a lapdance, she beats him up while dancing. Drew arrives to admit his feelings to her, but becomes angry when he sees the two in a suggestive position and storms off. Later Drew hears that as soon as he left, Sherrie had punched Stacee in the jaw.
The Bourbon Room is on its way to being demolished, Sherrie decides to leave the Venus Club after the scene with Drew, and everyone is in turmoil as they attempt to move on with their lives. Drew, now a pizza delivery boy, realizes none of his dreams have come true—he still is not a rock star, and Sherrie is leaving on a midnight train. Lonny arrives and explains to Drew that his life is so miserable because they are all characters in a musical and that it was their book writer who made it so. He also reveals to Drew that he serves as the show's "dramatic conjurer" that if Drew wants a happy ending, it is up to him to get the girl. After hearing this, Drew realizes that he does not need fame to make him happy, only Sherrie. He reaches her at the train station in time, and they realize that their love has survived all their trials and reconcile.
In the epilogue, The Bourbon Room is spared from demolition and Stacee Jaxx, now a washed-up has-been who has been charged with statutory rape, flees to Uruguay. Sherrie and Drew move to Glendale and start a family. They say that on The Strip, sometimes the dreams with which you enter are not always the dreams with which you leave, but they still rock .
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