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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
Music: Stephen FlahertyLyrics: Lynn AhrensBook: Thomas Meehan, Sylvester Stallone

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 1 album held

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Rocky matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature24 passages

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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