So here’s our list of audition songs for Rock of Ages , by character. That said, you should still show off similar vocals and personality. Sitemap This page was generated in 0.Do you have an upcoming audition for Rock of Ages? Well unless you have specifically been asked to sing a song from the show that you’re auditioning for, it’s generally best not to.

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Rock Of Ages is so tame for so much of its two hours that it needs the kind of spark Cruise brings.

If only Shankman had carried this inspiration further down the cast list. It’s inspired casting, especially when you consider Cruise’s next role is the about-face of Jack Reacher, a killing machine of few words next to Stacee Jaxx’s deranged, Axl Rose-styled showman. Blige gets half a dozen song-and-dance numbers yet generates barely a ripple.

Cruise just has to remove his sunglasses to create a wave of excitement. His duet with Malin Akerman’s rock journalist is what you want the rest of the film to be – funny, sexually charged, and, like a perfect song, leaving you wanting more. When he’s on, he gives Rock Of Ages a Spinal Tap-style push over the edge, a frisson that you wish could carry over to the rest of the film. Thank God, then, for Cruise as rock God Stacee Jaxx. Rock Of Ages teases us with a scattering of little moments – a nicely judged montage flashback breaks up one routine, Cruise offering up a crossword answer another – but they’re only brief moments of invention. In an ideal world, that’s the point of making a film from a musical, surely? You can make big moments from the little things you can’t do on stage. Rock Of Ages uses them to fill the running time.Īnd Shankman shoots everything up close and personal, as if he’s trying to give you the best seat at the musical where you can read exactly what’s on everyone’s face. Whedon used song and dance interludes as character revelations. Among his many gigs was choreographing Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s musical episode, and you kind of wish he’d paid more attention then to Joss Whedon (it’s too late now after The Avengers everyone will be doing it). Shankman is a choreographer-turned-director who’s a better choreographer than he is a director. But Rock Of Ages works in reverse – it creates a set of characters and a workmanlike story to service the songs, when what you really want is songs to tell a story. It’s like an action film that moves from one shoot-out to the next great in theory, and great in practice if you have a story to justify it, or the style to pull it off. Rock Of Ages is so in thrall to including every memorable rock ballad that it barely pauses for breath between each one. And they give him lots of musical set pieces. They give him plenty of melodrama – in the form of a bland romance between said small town girl (Julianne Hough’s Sherrie Christian) and Diego Boneta’s rock-star-wannabe Drew Boley – yet very little laughs.

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