By DAWNE LEIKER<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRock of Ages,\u201d on its 10th<\/sup> anniversary tour, was a guitar shredding, big hair tossing night at Beach Schmidt Performing Arts Theatre. Tuesday\u2019s Encore series show was a mix of risqu\u00e9 humor and grinding dance moves that rocked the theatre in ways I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s been rocked before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Featuring the hits of Bon Jovi, Journey, REO, Poison and\nTwisted Sister, to name just a few, the show didn\u2019t allow time for questioning\nits thin plot, as it moved from one hard-rocking hit to the next. Full of\nself-aware moments, in which the characters owned their on-stage personae, the\naudience was invited to be in on the joke, enjoying the moment, the music and a\nvery noisy romp through the 80s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Vocals were spot-on, from heartfelt power ballads, to\nintense heavy metal songs. The industrial set design had some hidden surprises,\ntoo, such as mobile room units (similar to adult-sized dollhouse cubicles) and\na cartoonish, but visually effective, rolling car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nominated for five Tony Awards, Rock of Ages tells the story\nof rocker Stacee Jaxx, who returns to the stage of on Sunset Strip for a final\nperformance. High energy choreography brought the music to life. In fact, the\nshow almost devolved into chaos before the end of the first act, as story lines\nbegan to merge to a point where the show\u2019s action and music bordered on\ncacophony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Awesome harmonies saved the day, though, when the leading\nlove interest, Anthony Nuccio and Katie LaMark gave their powerful performance\nof \u201cCan you Take Me Higher.\u201d All the characters, in fact, were strong singers and\ntalented dancers who brought passion and color to every corner of the set. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On Mar. 24, the next Encore Series show, \u201cThe Havana Cuba All-Stars: Asere!\u201d will celebrate the music and dance styles of Cuba. Tickets for the event go on sale Mar. 11 at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By DAWNE LEIKER \u201cRock of Ages,\u201d on its 10th anniversary tour, was a guitar shredding, big hair tossing night at Beach Schmidt Performing Arts Theatre.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44347,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44346\/revisions\/44347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}