Self-Parody: Lonnie, the narrator, briefly discusses disappointment, and mentions how much hed rather be be in a challenging play with complex characteriziation.Promoted to Love Interest: The Rolling Stone reporter goes from One-Scene Wonder to Stacee Jaxx's main love interest in the movie.It gets them a place in Arsenal's new tour, and Stacee himself sings it with them, having been re-inspired. The Power of Rock: Sherrie and Drew with "Don't Stop Believing" at the end of the movie.Pair the Spares: Franz and Regina Dennis and Lonnie.In the film, Lonny recalls an incident where Stacee Jaxx was late for a concert because he was busy performing a satanic ritual involving sewing up women's vaginas.Subverted in that the last line of the song from Dennis is 'remember when you teabagged that baby llama?' Noodle Incident: Dennis refers to one as the reason Stacee Jaxx 'owes' him in the play.The two songs she is named for appear in the show. Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: To some extent, Regina and Franz.
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It's also the newest show to crack the top 30, having opened in only 2009 (although The Book of Mormon is creeping up on it). Long-Runners: Closed in January 2015 after running nearly 2,300 performances - good for 29th place on the all-time list of Broadway's most-performed shows.At the end of the ensuing conversation neither Dupree or the audience is sure whether Stacee is being literal or not.
When Stacee arrives at the Bourbon he tells Dupree he'll burn the place to the ground. The film ends with Jaxx finding love and living happily ever after. The play ends with Stacee Jaxx fleeing to South America to avoid being arrested for statutory rape. Lighter and Softer: The film when compared to the play.Lampshade Hanging: In the Toronto production, Yvan Pedneault (Drew) explained away his rather noticeable French-Canadian accent by claiming to be from Detroit.This leads to a spiraling chain of events where Sherrie has no-strings-attached sex in a bathroom and becomes a stripper. Trying to calm them both down, Drew says they're "just two friends" out watching the stars and drinking wine. Sherrie and Drew are both quite nervous on their first date. Just Friends: Played with in the musical.Juke Box Musical: The musical is little more than an excuse to play rock songs from the 1980s.The show ends with Lonnie delivering the Aesop that "on the Sunset Strip, even though the dreams you leave with might not be the dreams you came in with, they can still rock." Bittersweet Ending: 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.Franz just before the guitar solo towards the end of "The Final Countdown".Regina during "We Built This City/Too Much Time on My Hands".Babies Ever After: Drew and Sherrie finally get together at the end of the show and have a baby - with labor and delivery all within a 20 second guitar solo.If you're looking for the video game, head this way. A movie, whose plot was dramatically altered from the stage version, was released in 2012, directed by Adam " Hairspray" Shankman and starring Diego Boneta as Drew, Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, Russell Brand as Lonnie, and Julianne Hough as Sherrie Christian.
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