If you're feeling nostalgic for the clothes, hair and rock n' roll of the '80s -- or even if you were too young at the time to indulge -- Rock of Ages will transport you back to a louder, sexier, more rebellious time. The show barges onto Broadway's Brooks Atkinson stage eight times a week replete with a no-holds-barred cast belting out such signature era anthems as "I Wanna Rock," "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," and many others.

And it's not just the music, culled from the portfolios of the decade's hottest artists, that puts the five-time Tony Award-nominated musical into a category all its own. While exploring the vintage boy-meets-girl theme, Rock of Ages also showcases lingerie-sporting dancers swiveling their hips to Kelly Devine's (Jersey Boys) choreography and muscle-bound, vest-dressed rockers exuding a strong sensuality and vibrant energy that throbs throughout the theater. All of which is as much a part of the retro fun as the ultra-funny double-entendre book by Chris D'Arienzo.

A treat for the ladies, hunky, talented Joey Taranto shines as Drew, a rocker wannabe who sweeps floors at a seedy L.A. bar, the Bourbon Room, on Sunset Strip. His world is shaken when he meets Sherrie (Emily Padgett), a corn-fed cutie from Kansas transplanted to West Coast with high hopes of an acting career. At one point their romantic hopes seem dashed, but in the end the couple reunites -- albeit not before the audience gets to sway to “Here I Go Again,” “Don’t Stop Believing,” and numerous other showstoppers by the likes of Journey, Styx, Poison, and others.

And, until December 23rd, you can catch Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider -- who composed and performed “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “I Wanna Rock” -- adding his MTV charisma (who will ever forget Snider as a crazed Pierrot in the “We’re Not Gonna Take It” music video?) to the production.

Having thrilled ROA ticket holders, the uber-rocker notes, “The age range in the audience is huge. You’ve got the regular theatergoers, then you’ve got the people who grew up on this stuff. The younger people have almost a romanticism about the ’80s.”

During the show’s former off-Broadway incarnation, Snider was invited to the opening. “I saw Adam Dannheisser give an amazing performance [playing mega-haired, pot-smoking bar-owner Dennis], and I said to my wife, ‘I’d like to do that role.’ And I put it out there to my management that I thought it would be a cool thing to do this role in the Off-Broadway show. And so the producers started mulling over the idea of actually bringing a real Tyrannosaurus onto the set....”

While Snider waited, the show catapulted from its humble beginnings to Broadway. Two years later the rock legend got the big news: “You’re in. You start in three days and you have two weeks until you’re on stage.”

The glam metal rocker went at it full speed. “I was there 12 hours a day for two weeks and then it was like I was shot out of a cannon.”

All that dedication paid off in October when he embarked on his three-month run in the show. Under Kristin Hanggi’s direction, Snider gives a convincing portrayal as Dennis that totally soars when his stoner character experiences a close encounter with someone who’s been eyeing him for a long time. When he belts out “Can’t Fight This Feeling,” the audience bursts into song along with him while rhythmically flashing the mini flashlight “lighters” they received with their programs.

Snider has enjoyed watching the show take off since its earliest days: “They say that Rock of Ages is the little show that could. It literally started in a bar and now, it just continues to do impossible things.” Productions are being planned far and wide at theaters in Europe, Asia and South America. And a big-budget movie of ROA is now being cast.

“It’s going to become one of those shows like Grease that has a life and goes on forever,” Snider predicts.

Click here for "Rockin’ Reasons Why ROA Is a Must-See," as well as a complete list of RoA musical numbers & their artists, not included in the program.

Rock of Ages is playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 W. 47th St.). For reservations, call 212-307-4100 or click here.