“Alice — A Steampunk Concert Fantasy.”
Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015 | 12:34 p.m.
“Alice: A Steampunk Rock Opera Fantasy” at Vinyl in the Hard Rock Hotel.
“Alice” is hitting the Strip.
The rock musical/production show “Alice — A Steampunk Concert Fantasy” is back onstage Oct. 13, booked for a one-off at Brooklyn Bowl in the Linq Promenade.
Show time is 10 p.m. (doors at 9 p.m., with some “Alice”-themed preshow activity planned). Tickets are $30, $15 for locals, and go on sale Saturday at 9 a.m. (for information, hit the Brooklyn Bowl website).
Based on the Lewis Carroll story “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” the “Alice” production has hopped across the city like the tale’s famed white rabbit.
Over the past two years, the show has been showcased at Tuscany Suites’ T Spot lounge, Sunset Station’s Club Madrid and, most recently, a series of performances at Vinyl in the Hard Rock Hotel.
The Brooklyn Bowl show is the most adventurous yet for “Alice,” as the show’s co-director and creator, Anne Martinez, has finally ventured into a space that will allow aerial artistry in the show.
The responsibility for choreographing the team of cast members to perform skyward falls to April Leopardi, herself a well-trained aerial artist.
Otherwise, the show will continue with its sultry, Steampunk theatrics conceived by dancer and choreographer Ryan Kelsey and music directed by David Perrico.
The show has long been driven by reimagined versions of such contemporary numbers as “Bad Romance” (Lady Gaga) and also the classics “Ring of Fire” (Johnny Cash) and “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” by The Eurythmics.
A show-closing “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” by The Beatles is another highlight.
The dancers throw themselves across the stage, swagger into the audience, smoke from a hookah pipe, and, during Aerosmith’s “Cryin’,” Leopardi throws plates at a ducking Kelsey.
Another Kelsey — Lora, Ryan’s sister, late of “Zombie Burlesque” — also performs the Red Queen character, which has featured a rotating group of artists.
The added, airborne artistry should help “Alice” wow members of the AEG Live team, which is important to the show’s future as AEG books acts at Brooklyn Bowl.
“I think they all just need to experience what we do, the changes we are making and the element of the Red Queen,” Martinez says. “We now have a space where we’re allowed to really show what we can do, and we want to do so much more. We always want to do more, you know?”
Two years on, “Alice” has shown remarkable maturity. But, still, she’s a kid at heart.
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