Date/Time
Date(s) - 31/10/2020
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Location
Hopgood theatre

Categories

• Music

LIVING THE NIGHTMARE

The Australian Alice Cooper Show presents – WELCOME TO THE NIGHTMARE

2 hours of outrageous platinum selling classic rock anthems

Building a tribute to Alice Cooper was no easy task. Least not when the man himself was touring the country days ahead of the opening night of “Welcome to the nightmare – A tribute to Alice Cooper” for Adelaide Fringe 2020. All the same, The Australian Alice Cooper Show pressed on and now, 9 months later, they’re glad they did.

The show’s co-producer and representing Alice on stage, Dave Hudson is still amazed at the coincidences that surround the show.  “We booked our shows and venues back in Nov 2019; the registration fees, the hire of equipment, everything and then BAM – two days later he announces his Australian tour. And we thought, geez this could go either way. But Wow, February 2020 seems like a lifetime ago now!”

“Our show is a little different to most of the tribute acts we’ve seen over the past few years. Firstly, there’s the music; 1970’s Alice Cooper was influenced by everything from vaudeville shows and macabre horror through to material influenced by 60’s TV and comic books. Secondly, it hasn’t been done (here in Australia anyway). You can see just about every other classic artist tribute, from Led Zeppelin to Pink to Elton and Elvis but no one has ever touched Alice. But thirdly and most importantly; we put on a REAL SHOW with dancers, balloons, bubbles, babies, monsters, American Presidents, food fights, spiders, gang fights, bull fights, murder, mayhem and more! We’re bringing back party time to the live music scene. And that’s just the first half! The second set is a reenactment of his award winning concert tour ‘Welcome to my Nightmare’ in its entirety, drawing from imagery in the concert movie of the same name.”

The original Alice Cooper Band were renowned for incredulous and often shocking stage antics. They exploded onto the scene in 1971 and quickly gained notoriety as the “most dangerous band in the world”, practically coining the phrase ‘Shock Rock’ that always included Alice’s execution, by electric chair, a hanging or a ten foot high guillotine! In fact, the AACS have commissioned the construction of a replica working guillotine contraption, built in Adelaide. It is scheduled to be an exciting, if not controversial part of the act for Fringe 2020.

“We wanted to recreate the excitement and shock of those original shows and inject some fun, passion and attitude back into the live tribute scene with a frenetic show full of musical twists and turns.”

“But the best part is the crowds. The crowds, while they’ve been modest lately with Corona Restrictions and all, have been really getting into the spirit of the shows and they’re growing larger all the time. Some dress up or don the makeup. We can’t wait for those COVID restrictions to ease further and allow more people to share the experience.”

Welcome to the nightmare – The Australian Alice Cooper Show begin their South Australian Regional Tour on October 31 with a Halloween inspired extravaganza at the Hopgood Theatre, Noarlunga, followed by shows at the Northern Festival Centre Port Pirie on Saturday November 7 and then the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre Mount Gambier November 28. Tickets $41.80 adults $36.30 concession. Family & Group Booking discounts available

Dave Hudson 0400281401                          Ashley Miller 0477285475

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