Rocky
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Rocky the Musical is a 2012 musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Thomas Meehan and Sylvester Stallone, based on the 1976 film of the same name written by Stallone. The show held its world premiere in Hamburg in 2012 and opened on Broadway in 2014 at the Winter Garden Theatre.
- Opened
- 2014
- Performances
- 188
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions1 on Broadway
| 2014 | Winter Garden Theatre Original. March 13, 2014 · Alex Timbers | 188 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Rocky matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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24 passages naming Rocky, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Green Day leader Billie Joe Armstrong designed the album with a story in mind that linked the songs together; for this, he drew inspiration from Broadway shows like Britain’s Rocky Horror Show and America’s West Side Story. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p360
Right: A revival of the sci-fi spoof, The Rocky Horror Show (2000). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p336
Although the Belasco’s brief cabaretization was long since undone, the poor old playhouse has never been quite the same since the Shuberts allowed Rocky to tear out those lower boxes. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p815
Sets; 1975 The Rocky Horror Show book:the-broadway-design-roster-designers-and-their-credits-owen-bobbi-bibliographies#p462
The Rocky Horror Show , which had played briefly and unsuccessfully on Broadway in 1975, returned to New York on the strength of its classic cult film version of nearly the same name. book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p324
w (1973, West End; 1974 Los Angeles) was undoubtedly the most important predecessor of Little Shop, both in terms of musical approach and its unusual subject matter; but in terms of tone, it was quite different. Rocky Horror used camp as the central focus of the musical—playing with concepts of reality, truth, and exag… book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p310
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