Broadway Beckons For Alice Classic
Planet Rock DJ in talks to take album to Broadway stage
Alice Cooper is planning to turn his classic Welcome To My Nightmare album into a Broadway production.
Speaking to Rolling Stone the shock rocker revealed that the production was in its planning stages and that he was in talks about putting on a stage extravaganza themed around his 1975 album.
"Do it in a set show, do it all out rock,” he tells Rolling Stone, "so you’re in a concert. You can do so much more if you’re not travelling. You can set things up, put people in the audience that are in the show, so the guy sitting next to you might fly up in the air. I love the idea of an insane asylum, of being in an insane asylum, where you walk in, they lock the doors, and then they stand there, so you’re in. The claustrophobia thing is good.”
Another option for the show may be a story based around the Alice Cooper Band, which Alice says is similar to the story of the Four Seasons as depicted on stage in the musical, Jersey Boys.
"We’re actually talking about a lot of these things right now,” Cooper said, "but it’s always the back story that drives the thing: ‘He and his wife were married for 34 years.’ We probably have the strongest marriage in the whole music business. And it’s very romantic, and that would give it heart. You have this total monster up there, who’s totally in love with the girl, a monster with a heart of gold. I would like to do that show.”