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Join us for ROCK OF AGES June 19-28, 2026!

ROCK OF AGES takes you back to the time of big rock with big egos playing big guitar solos and flaunting even bigger hair! This Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical features the hits of bands including Bon Jovi, Journey, Foreigner, Joan Jett, Whitesnake, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister and more.

Auditions for ROCK OF AGES will be held on Sunday, 4/12 from 1:00-4:00pm, and will be open to current Carroll University students and alumni.  Watch this page for more audition and show information soon!

ROCK OF AGES is performed with permission by Concord Theatricals.

Book by Chris D’Arienzo
Arrangements and Orchestrations by Ethan Popp

Directed by Prof. Jenn Dobby
Music Direction by Julie Johnson '98
Choreography by Erin Ashenhurst '21
Stage Management by Taylor Venden '25


It’s the tail end of the big, bad 1980s in Hollywood, and the party has been raging hard. Aqua Net, Lycra, lace and liquor flow freely at one of the Sunset Strip’s last legendary venues, a place where sex machine Stacee Jaxx takes the stage and scantily clad groupies line up to turn their fantasies into reality. Amidst the madness, aspiring rock star (and resident toilet cleaner) Drew longs to take the stage as the next big thing (and longs for small-town girl Sherri, fresh off the bus from Kansas with stars in her eyes). But the rock ’n’ roll fairy tale is about to end when German developers sweep into town with plans to turn the fabled Strip into just another capitalist strip mall. Can Drew, Sherri and the gang save the strip – and themselves – before it’s too late? Only the music of hit bands Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake and more hold the answer.
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  • Home
  • 2025-2026 Season
    • MY COUNTRY SPEAKS
    • BOEING BOEING
    • 10x11 Festival (THE307: Directing for the Stage)
    • THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
    • ROCK OF AGES - Summer Rep 2026
  • The Carroll Players
    • Student Org Meetings
    • Executive Board
  • THEATRE PROGRAM
    • Theatre Major
    • Minors
    • Certificates
  • Gallery
    • Summer Repertory Series >
      • Summer Rep 2014 - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST & ANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS
      • Summer Rep 2015 - RENT & WOMEN OF MANHATTAN
      • Summer Rep 2016 - AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
      • Summer Rep 2017 - NEXT TO NORMAL
      • Summer Rep 2018 - ALMOST MAINE
      • Summer Rep 2019 - SPRING AWAKENING
      • Summer Rep 2022 - AMERICAN IDIOT
      • Summer Rep 2023 - HEATHERS THE MUSICAL
      • Summer Rep 2024 - SWEENEY TODD
      • Summer Rep 2025 - ALICE BY HEART
    • 2012-2013 >
      • True West
      • The Shape of Things
      • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
      • Hairspray
      • Vagina Monologues - 2013
      • Six Strangers
      • High School Musical
      • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
    • 2013-2014 >
      • 24 Hour Show: Wake-Up Call
      • StopKiss
      • Spring Awakening
      • Tales of Odysseus
      • Minchin's
    • 2014-2015 >
      • Bat Boy: The Musical
      • Felt
      • Weekend of Women
      • Lucifer: Before the Red
      • Dead Man's Cell Phone
      • CUSS Festival
    • 2015-2016 >
      • Every-Body
      • Fat Pig
      • Sondheim's Women
      • The Untitled Women Project
      • A Workshop Musical: Heathers
    • 2016-2017 >
      • The Glass Menagerie
      • Senseless
      • Legally Blonde
      • Fefu and Her Friends
    • 2017-2018 >
      • Antigone
      • Numbers Nerds
      • Hamlet (A Cover)
    • 2018-2019 >
      • Stop Kiss
      • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
      • Tartuffe
      • The Wonderful World of Dissocia
    • 2019-2020 >
      • Broadway's Best: A Cabaret
      • Once Upon A Mattress
      • Virtual Musical Theatre Cabaret
    • 2020-2021 >
      • ROMEO + JULIET (A COVER)
      • Festival of New Works
    • 2021-2022 >
      • Some Enchanted Evening
      • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • 2022-2023 >
      • 24 Hour Show - A Party To Die For
      • Godspell
      • THE THANKSGIVING PLAY
    • 2023-2024 >
      • LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
      • 10x11 Play Festival
      • THE LIGHTNING THIEF
    • 2024-2025 >
      • Anything Goes
      • My Country Speaks
      • THREADS - Play Festival
  • CONTACT US