Nuclear Blast announces that Joacim Cans, vocalist of the Swedish metal band HAMMERFALL is confirmed to play the part of “Dennis Dupree” in the Swedish stage version of the award winning smash hit musical “Rock of Ages”. Cans gave following statement about the show: “I am very psyched and honored to be part of this fantastic hard rock musical. Not only will I explore a brand new genre, but I will also get to try my acting skills and perform with the Swedish elite when it comes to both comedy, acting and singing”.
„Rock of Ages“ is a rock/jukebox musical, with a book by Chris D’Arienzo, built around classic rock hits from the 1980s, especially from the famous glam metal bands of the decade. The musical features songs from Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister and Europe, among other well-known rock bands. Set in LA’s infamous Sunset Strip in 1987, ROCK OF AGES tells the story of Drew, a boy from South Detroit, and Sherrie, a small-town girl, both in LA to chase their dreams of making it big and falling in love. This five-time Tony Award nominated musical takes you back to the times of big bands with big egos playing big guitar solos and sporting even bigger hair!
The show premieres at “Chinateatern” in Stockholm on February 21 2013.
On the upcoming Friday, the new HAMMERFALL DVD “Gates Of Dalhalla” will be released. The DVD was recorded and dircted by Patric Ullaeus (Dimmu Borgir, Children Of Bodom, In Flames a.o.). It will be released as a DVD/2CD and Blu-Ray/2CD
According to Cinemablend.com, Rock Of Ages will be released on both Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download on October 9.
Rock of Ages Blu-ray Special Features includes:
– Extended cut (+13m of footage)
– Legends of The Sunset Strip
– Defining a Decade
– The ’80s Look
– It’s All About The Moves
– The Sunset Strip
– Raising the Bar – a look at the Sunset Strip
– Connection to the Music
– So It Started In A Bar – Any Way You Want It – music featurette
Despite it’s all-star cast, Rock Of Ages made a dismal performance at the US box office in mid-June earning $15.1 million to place third overall. It’s one of Hollywood heavyweight Tom Cruise’s (who plays the ’80s rocker Stacee Jaxx) worst opening weekends for a movie ever!
Rock Of Ages sees the all-star Hollywood cast – also featuring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Russell Brand, Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Malin Akerman – singing some of the greatest hits of the hair band era including GUNS N’ ROSES, WHITESNAKE, NIGHT RANGER, DEF LEPPARD, BON JOVI, JOURNEY, POISON, TWISTED SISTER, FOREIGNER, BON JOVI and JOAN JETT.
Legendary rocker Alice Cooper paid a visit to the U.K. cast of “Rock Of Ages”, the comedy musical that inspired this year’s star-studded Hollywood film of the same name, on Tuesday, August 14 to deliver a relentless version of the classic “School’s Out”. Check out video footage below. Photos can be found at AliceCooper.com.
“Rock Of Ages” is currently being staged at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, starring Shayne Warde and Justin Lee Collins.
Twitter was abuzz earlier this week with rumors that Cooper might stop by for a surprise performance, and Alice himself teased, “hearing that @rockofagesuk in London is GOOD. But worthy of me crashing their little show? I’LL BE THE JUDGE OF THAT! (sic)’, and he was sure to include the “Wayne’s World” classic “We’re Not Worthy” clip to emphasize his point.
Alice kept the heat and the suspense brewing with a later tweet directed at some of the “Rock Of Ages” U.K. cast members: “OK @shayneTward, @sandy_moffat & @simonlipkin – YOU’RE NEXT! #IKnowWhereYouLive. (sic)”, which featured a link to another video… this time of his own head being chopped off!
Alice just finished up his hugely successful “No More Mr. Nice Guy” tour, which broke several attendance records in the USA and Europe. Cooper is in London this week to promote his upcoming October U.K. tour called “Night Of Fear”, and in particular the featured Halloween show on October 29 show at London’s Wembley. This will be the third year in a row that London has played host to Alice‘s infamous halloween show. This Halloween show will also mark another occasion — Alice Cooper will be the only foreign artist to play have played at Wembley for five decades straight!
This new tour will begin on October 24 in Cardiff, and according to Alice will feature three main parts… classic Alice tracks, a “Nightmare” section with tracks from the original album “Welcome To My Nightmare” and his most recent album “Welcome 2 My Nightmare”, followed by an entirely new concept that he won’t reveal. Also in the works is a new execution.
Alice begins rehearsals for the new tour in early October.
’80s hard rock queen Lita Ford and members of DEF LEPPARD, POISON and KISS were among the attendees at last night’s (Friday, June 8) premiere of the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical “Rock Of Ages” at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
The soundtrack to “Rock Of Ages”, which showcases popular rock songs from the ’70s and ’80s, features the cast — Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Russell Brand and Julianne Hough — singing some of the greatest hits of the “hair-band” era, is likely to sell between 12,000 and 15,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to industry web site Hits Daily Double. The estimate was based on one-day sales reports compiled after the record arrived in stores on June 5 via WaterTower Music.
“Rock Of Ages: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” features the following track listing:
01. Paradise City (Tom Cruise)
02. Sister Christian/Just Like Paradise/Nothin’ But a Good Time (Diego Boneta)
03. Juke Box Hero/I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll (Diego Boneta)
04. Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Catherine Zeta-Jones)
05. Waiting For A Girl Like You Diego Boneta
06. More Than Words/Heaven (Diego Boneta)
07. Wanted Dead Or Alive (Julianne Hough)
08. I Want To Know What Love Is (Malin Akerman)
09. I Wanna Rock (Diego Boneta)
10. Pour Some Sugar On Me (Tom Cruise)
11. Harden My Heart (Julianne Hough)
12. Shadows Of The Night/Harden My Heart (Julianne Hough)
13. Here I Go Again (Diego Boneta)
14. Can’t Fight This Feeling (Russell Brand)
15. Any Way You Want It (Julianne Hough)
16. Undercover Love (Diego Boneta)
17. Every Rose Has Its Thorn (Diego Boneta)
18. Rock You Like A Hurricane (Julianne Hough)
19. We Built This City/We’re Not Gonna Take It (Russell Brand)
20. Don’t Stop Believin’ (Diego Boneta)
In a recent interview with Playboy.com, Cruise stated about his first attempt at singing, “I knew I could hold a note. I sang in a glee club when I was 14 years old and in a high school musical. But I never had a singing lesson. No one ever taught me how to use my voice.
It was previously reported that Cruise was preparing for his role by training with Axl Rose‘s vocal coach. “He was an opera singer who taught me how to control my voice,” Cruise said. “It’s like learning a new sport or a skill for a character. I had to find out how to move air through the vocal cords and where to place it in my head, in the chest. It’s something you have to do every day to strengthen your voice.”
The first song Cruise sang in front of a crowd was “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, with members of DEF LEPPARD watching him.
“I was down in Miami, recording different songs, and Adam [Shankman, director] called and said, ‘DEF LEPPARD‘s coming by the set,'” Cruise told Playboy.com. “I said, ‘Man, that’s cool.’ Then I paused. ‘Wait, I’m rehearsing their song tomorrow.’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah!’ [laughs] So we started right in the deep end, and that was the first scene I shot in the movie. It’s a great song, and I grew up listening to them. They went to the back of the Bourbon Room, and I looked at my band and was like, ‘Hit it.’ All the crew was watching them watching me. . . [After the song was done] the lead singer, Joe Elliott, points at me and goes, ‘Fuck you! Fuck you!’ Then I saw big smiles on their faces, and I realized I’d gotten their stamp. It was a very cool moment. It was important they knew I was honoring their music and not making fun of them.”
DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen recently told VH1 Classic Rock Nights that Cruise “was a super-lovely guy” when they met. Collen added, “I was so impressed because he hadn’t sung before and he had vocal lessons. He was literally doing five hours a day, five days a week, like truly real, getting in there and doing it. And we saw him and he was amazing, it was like Iggy Pop meets someone else and he’s in great shape and it was like, ‘What!?!’ It was surreal, but he really pulls it off and it was like he’s a total rock star.”
Tom Cruise stars in “Rock Of Ages” as Stacee Jaxx, an aging musician whose glory days are long past.
Adam Anders, executive music producer for the film and album, recently told The Hollywood Reporter about Cruise‘s vocal skills, “He had never sung in his life. He was like, ‘I need to know that I can do this before I sign on.’ So I went to his house to hear him sing and even though he was completely green as a singer, his vocal cords were amazing. He had this voice that blew me away. It was the most powerful voice I had ever heard. So loud. He could do anything and go as high as we wanted. It was like a kid discovering he had a new toy. I left there super-pumped knowing that not only could we make him pass as a singer in the movie, but we would blow people away with what he could do.”
He added, “[Tom‘s] confidence kept growing as we worked together. I think he started off a little nervous, as anybody would who has never done this, but he just bought it 110%. He works harder than anybody I’ve ever met in my life. By the end of this movie, the guy was just phenomenal. I remember telling him, ‘You’re a singer!'”
“Rock Of Ages” also stars Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul Giamatti, Malin Akerman and many others. It scheduled to arrive in theaters on June 15.
DEF LEPPARD have added more dates to their upcoming Rock Of Ages tour, featuring POISON and LITA FORD. Special VIP tickets available at VIP Nation here.
The updated schedule is as follows:
June
20 – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheater
22 – Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
23 – Las Vegas, NV – Red Rock Amphitheatre
25 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
27 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center
29 – Atlanta, GA – Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood
30 – Tampa, FL – Tampa Bay Times Forum
July
2 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
3 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
6 – Cleveland, OH – Quickens Loan Arena
7 – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
10 – Baltimore, MD – Merriweather Pavilion
11 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
13 – Wantagh, NY – Nikon at Jones Beach Pavilion
16 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
17 – Hamilton, ON – Copps Coliseum
19 – Chicago, IL – Allstate Arena
21 – Omaha, NE – Red Sky Music Festival
22 – Cadott, WI – Rock Fest
August
9 – Sunrise, Florida Bank Atlantic Center
12 – Virginia Beach, VA – Farm Bureau Live
15 – Hershey, PA – Hershey Park Stadium
17 – Buffalo, NY – Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
18 – Boston, MA – Comcast Center
22 – Bangor, ME – Bangor Waterfront Pavilion
24 – Noblesville, IN – Klipsch Music Center
25 – St. Louis, MO – Chaifetz Arena
29 – Lampe, MO – Black Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
31 – Oklahoma City, OK – Zoo Amphitheatre
September
1 – Woodlands, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion
3 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
6 – Monterrey, Mexico – Arena Monterrey
8 – Mexico City, Mexico – Ciudad de México
12 – Tucson, AZ – Anselmo Valencia Ampitheatre
15 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
The official poster for the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical “Rock Of Ages”, which showcases popular rock songs from the ’70s and ’80s, can be seen below. Tom Cruise stars in the film as Stacee Jaxx, an aging musician whose glory days are long past. Among the tunes Cruise performs are DEF LEPPARD‘s “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, SCORPIONS‘ “Rock You Like A Hurricane”, BON JOVI‘s “Wanted Dead Or Alive” and STYX‘s “Renegade”. DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen recently told VH1 Classic Rock Nights that he and his bandmates got to meet Cruise and that the actor “was a super-lovely guy.” Collen added, “I was so impressed because he hadn’t sung before and he had vocal lessons. He was literally doing five hours a day, five days a week, like truly real, getting in there and doing it. And we saw him and he was amazing, it was like Iggy Pop meets someone else and he’s in great shape and it was like, ‘What!?!’ It was surreal, but he really pulls it off and it was like he’s a total rock star.”
It was previously reported that Cruise was preparing for his role by training with Axl Rose‘s vocal coach. “He’s been studying with — seriously — Axl Rose‘s voice teacher like five hours a day,” director Adam Shankman told The Wrap in April. “The prognosis is more than excellent.”
The movie is a love story told through the music of PAT BENATAR, BON JOVI, JOURNEY, POISON, TWISTED SISTER and other artists from the 1980s.
“Rock Of Ages” also stars Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul Giamatti, Malin Akerman and many others. It scheduled to arrive in theaters on June 14. Source: Blabbermouth.net
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