History Theatre / RockOfAges

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Pat Benatar is the only female artist covered.

* ActingForTwo: Numerous instances in the play. Lonny and Dennis both double with men from the record company, Sherrie's father also plays Stacee Jaxx, Regina/Candy, and Justice/Sherrie's mother. The Stacee/Sherrie's father casting is particularly jarring, since they end up [[ParentalIncest having sex]].

* DyeingForYourArt: Though the original Franz was a brunette, many of the more recent brunette actors playing him have gone blonde.

* LongRunners: By the time it closes in January 2015, it will have run nearly 2,300 performances-- good for 29th place on the all-time list of Broadway's most-performed shows. It's also the newest show to crack the top 30, having opened in only 2009 (although ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' is creeping up on it).

* BabiesEverAfter: Drew and Sherrie [[spoiler: finally get together at the end of the show and have a baby- with the delivery taking place right in the Bourbon Room during a 20 second guitar solo. Consists of a mystery]] DeliveryGuy and an AwayInAManger feel thanks to [[spoiler: angel Dennis]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Dennis passes away and leaves the Bourbon Room to Lonnie, but the club stays open; Franz reconciles with his dad, opens his confectionery shop in Germany, and maintains a long-distance relationship with Regina, who becomes the mayor of West Hollywood; Stacee is charged with statutory rape and forced to flee to Uruguay, where he apparently keeps performing; and Sherrie and Drew get together and start a family in the suburbs, even though it means giving up their dreams of rock stardom.]] The show ends with Lonnie delivering the [[AnAesop Aesop]] that "on the Sunset Strip, even though the dreams you leave with might not be the dreams you came in with, but they can still rock."

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Sherrie and Drew fall in love because they both like cherry slurpies.

* [[Jerkass]]: Stacee Jaxx.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Stacee Jaxx, at least in the film.

* DyeingForYourArt though the original Franz was a brunette, many of the more recent brunette actors playing him have gone blonde.

* FunetikAksent in the musical's script, all of Franz and Hertz's lines are written like this. Also, Regina's name is often spelled Regyna.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Stacee Jaxx.

* MeaningfulName: Sherrie Christian. The two songs she is named for appear in the show.
** "Sherrie" is cut from the movie, though

* StealthPun This could be unintentional, but still a good FridgeBrilliance. At the end of the musical, [[spoiler: Regina is with Franz, who runs a confectionery store]] What's the name of the stripper who the actress playing Regina is double cast as? [[spoiler: Candi/Candy]]

* WaxingLyrical: In an indirect example, the stars of the Broadway musical ''Rock of Ages'' are this: a small-town girl trying to escape her lonely world, and a city boy born and raised in south Detroit.

A [[TheMovie movie]], who's plot was dramatically altered from the stage version, was released in 2012, directed by Adam "{{Hairspray}}" Shankman and starring Diego Boneta as Drew, TomCruise as Stacee Jaxx, RussellBrand as Lonnie, and Julianne Hough as Sherrie Christian. You can watch the trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USxhXb5VC5E here]]. Please add all film only tropes to its [[Film/RockOfAges page]].

!!This musical/movie includes examples of the following:

* ShallowLoveInterest: Sherrie and Drew fall in love because they both like cherry slurpies.

** The show makes a subtle reference to this issue. During the pre-show warnings (like no flash photography or recording), the narrator states that in the event of a fire, the audience is NOT allowed to sing any songs from the Def Leppard album Pyromania because the producers were unable to get any rights to their songs. The song Rock of Ages is in the Pyromania album.

A [[TheMovie movie]] was released in 2012, directed by Adam "{{Hairspray}}" Shankman and starring Diego Boneta as Drew, TomCruise as Stacee Jaxx, RussellBrand as Lonnie, and Julianne Hough as Sherrie Christian. You can watch the trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USxhXb5VC5E here]]. Please add all film only tropes to its [[Film/RockOfAges page]].

* BrokenAesop: The story [[{{Anvilicious}} pretty blatantly]] drives home the message about [[BeYourself remaining true to one's own feelings and dreams]] - and then, at the end, has [[spoiler: Patricia Whitmore completely abandoning everything she had believed in as part of her HeelFaceTurn]].
** [[spoiler:Debatable. Patricia only turned into an ultra-conservative rock'n'roll hater because she felt spurned by Jacee Staxx. Her appearance in the ending was arguably her real self.]]
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Subverted, as Stacee ''does'' remember the time he treated [[spoiler: Patricia]] poorly, and he seems at least a little regretful about it.
** [[spoiler:It's debatable how regretful he actually seemed; regardless, he did remember her.]]

* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Bryan Cranston as The Mayor is absent from trailers and Diego Boneta as ''main character'' Drew is often OutOfFocus.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Dennis, who dies in the finale of the musical (PlayedForLaughs), but survives the movie.

* VillainyFreeVillain: The Mayor's Wife and to a lesser extent The Mayor himself from the movie. They do nothing illegal or even underhanded and their goal is not even that unreasonable (wanting to shut down a terminally badly run nightclub and clean up a sleazey neighbourhood.) However they are unsympathetic [[StrawHypocrite Straw Hypocrites]] so it is easy to root against them.

* ThePowerOfRock: Sherrie and Drew with "Don't Stop Beliving" at the end of the movie. [[spoiler: It gets them a place in Arsenal's new tour, and Stacee himself sings it with them, having been re-inspired.]]

** [[Debatable. Patricia only turned into an ultra-conservative rock'n'roll hater because she felt spurned by Jacee Staxx. Her appearance in the ending was arguably her real self.]]

** [[It's debatable how regretful he actually seemed; regardless, he did remember her.]]

* HoYay: Between Lonny and Dennis. [[spoiler: They end up together through a duet of "I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore".]]

* FunekitAksent in the musical's script, all of Franz and Hertz's lines are written like this. Also, Regina's name is often spelled Regyna.