Rock of Ages

Wow ! Saw the show last night in its new home at The Garrick. It was AWESOME. It works so much better in this smaller space. By the end of the show the cast and the audience were ROCKING together. Just great fun.

My absolute all time favourite... Sam Marlowe, get a grip this is awesome theatre, the soundtrack is amazing and the acting brilliant... the audience loved it and were itching to get on their feet all 3 times I've seen it !!!! try to aim for the main cast line up though, we saw the show twice with the main cast and once on a Sunday with the understudy cast which wasn't as good I'm afraid. My friend who had only seen it once didn't know the difference and thought it was still awesome though !!

Sam Marlowe is talking out of his 'derriere!' Why send a critic who hates Rock Music to review 'Rock of Ages'? I treated my wife to show in Feb (while we were down for wkd at Excel Motorbike show fundraising for Charity) & the show unsurprisingly Rocked Out! We were fortunate to have Nathan Amzi as Narrator & his quips & ad libs made the show. The only group that was 'awful' that Sam mentioned was Poison but even their sole decent track 'every rose has it's thorn' was included at an appropriate point in the performance. Critics what do you know? The audience got involved & thoroughly enjoyed themselves... Surely that is a true meter/guage of how good a show really is!!??

Sam Marlowe is either a theatre snob/music snob or hasn't seen this show. No laughs? Are you serious? Idiot!

10/10!

The story line isn't exactly unique, but I still loved it! Amazing performances from each and every person on stage. When the whole cast is dancing and singing together it is ELECTRIC. The choreography is brilliant and the cast seem to give it everything. Simon Lipkin is outstanding and the big names give honest, almost humble performances. If I had a choice between this and we will rock you, i'd go see this again (We will rock you is so bad I wanted to cry). Not really one for younger kids perhaps as its a bit risque and lots of big bad words! Try and sit as close to the front as poss.

Great fun musical!!! not really one for the theatre but went to shaftesbury on 4th Jan 2012 and had a great night!! cast were amazing especially lead male and female, shane ward does a great job as stacee jaxx and the narrator has amazing interaction with audience!! well worth going to and if your not singing and dancing at the end then you have to take a good look at yourself!!

This musical is easy, cheesy and fun. My wife and i attended on a Tuesday night when 3 of the leading cast were absent (Drew, Sherrie and Stacee Jaxx) but the understudies were great and we would have completely forgotten the fact if we hadn't had seen how good Shayne Ward seemed in the preview clips. I'm looking forward to seeing what Tom Cruise makes of the role in the feature film version.

Fantastic music, if you like rock that is, silly story line but quite funny, brilliant singers - we loved it so much we're going back again soon.

Great songs sung by a great cast. Predictable story line but with such great comedy and singing who cares? Was not at all what I expected it to be. Give it a shot and you are sure to love it.