'Rock of Ages' to close on Broadway

The party will soon be over for the 27th-longest running show on Broadway.

That would be the '80s jukebox musical and unabashed camp-fest Rock of Ages, which after 22 previews and 2,328 performances — and, lest we forget, a 2012 film adaptation with Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones — will close on Jan. 18, it was announced Tuesday.

Ages began its life, fittingly, at Los Angeles' Hollywood Vanguard Nightclub back in January 2006, and enjoyed a limited run at the Flamingo in Las Vegas later that year.

In a statement, producer Matthew Weaver noted, "We landed Off-Broadway in the midst of the financial meltdown and yet, against all odds — thanks to the sheer determination, grit, naivete and enthusiasm of our dream team of creatives, actors and producers — opened on Broadway in the spring of 2009 to an overwhelming embrace from critics and audiences alike."

And the dream isn't over: Having already played Toronto, Australia and the West End, Ages is currently rocking Vegas' Venetian Resort, the Norwegian cruise ship The Breakaway and on its third annual tour of the USA, and its first of the U.K. Productions have been licensed in Mexico, Sweden, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines.