Catherine Zeta Jones Joins ROCK OF AGES Film!

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Adam Shankman has created a role for Tony winner Catherine Zeta Jones in the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of ROCK OF AGES. Zeta Jones, who is currently in final negotiations for the film, will play the film's villain, described by Shankman as: "if Tipper Gore and Anita Bryant had a love child. She is this hardcore, moral majority, arch-conservative who wants to shut down rock'n roll in the great city of Los Angeles."

This news comes after director Adam Shankman confirmed that Russell Brand has officially joined the cast of the film as 'Lonny.' ALso signed on the project are Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough, Alec Baldwin, Mary J. Blige and Diego González Boneta.

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ROCK OF AGES opened on April 7, 2009 at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre to critical acclaim, following an off Broadway engagement in the fall of 2008. The Broadway production was nominated for Five 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and New Line Records released the Original Broadway Cast Recording in July 2009, featuring 28 songs from the show. The New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. film of the musical, directed by Adam Shankman (Hairspray), was originally scheduled to be released in 2011. As previously reported, a new release date has now been set for the film: June 1, 2012.

The music that 'ignited a generation' is heating up Broadway in ROCK OF AGES. The classic rock love story of the decade erupts into Broadway's best party, all to the sounds of such feel-good, sing-out-loud songs as Every Rose Has Its Thorn, I Wanna Know What Love Is, Here I Go Again, Don't Stop Believin' and more. This five-time Tony nominated musical is nothin' but a good time.

For tickets and more information on the show, visit www.rockofagesmusical.com

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