Metalworks Production Group and Alice Cooper

As soon as the top-hatted silhouette appears up on stage, the audience is on their feet and geared up for two hours of classic rock and roll mixed with a spooky, theatrical display that is out of this world. The audience is made up of a wide span of generations, all brought together by one man, Alice Cooper, out on tour to promote his new album, Along Came A Spider.

Metalworks Production Group (MPG) has been a part of the Alice Cooper experience for the past few years and this year, for the Psycho Drama Tour, Metalworks Production Group found themselves all over Canada, from Vancouver to Halifax to London and everywhere in between, for a very successful 2008 tour schedule. MPG brought Alice Cooper’s eerie, horror rock show to life through an array of lighting and intense audio.

The show was exceptionally theatrical, involving a wide array of actors, most of them with the last name Cooper, bringing out, in a weird sort of way, a display of familial love. Near the end of the show, the usual guillotine act was replaced with Alice Cooper being hung while wearing a straight jacket - punishment for stabbing a steak through a baby doll’s heart.

Songs included No More Mr. Nice Guy, Dead Babies, Department of Youth, Lost in America, Welcome to my Nightmare, I Love the Dead, School’s Out, Dirty Diamonds, Billion Dollar Babies and Elected. Elected brought out two actors in costume to resemble John McCain and Barrack Obama in a weird political battle. Alice Cooper urged the crowd to elect him as he was the representative of the ‘Wild Party’ with the slogan ‘He Doesn’t Care’. Metalworks Institute’s promotions director, Julie Hoffmann, found herself up on stage as part of Cooper’s campaign strategy.

Overall the Canadian tour was a great success and Metalworks Production Group was proud to be a part of such a classical rock experience.