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Only Britney Bleeds: Alice Cooper in the UK
(Entertainment Design, 2003-01-01)

Who needs Ozzy Osbourne - or any of the Osbournes, for that matter? The real F***ing Prince of Darkness, Alice Cooper, is bloodying up the road right now with his usual array of heavy metal mayhem, and can currently be found devouring Europe with his Dragontown world tour. Lighting designer Mick Thornton has designed a surprisingly colorful show that illuminates a stage act encompassing everything from baby massacres to strait-jacketed lunatics being hauled off to the asylum. The pice de resistance is the nightly ritualized guillotining of Britney Spears - Alice doesn't much like her, apparently - as played by his daughter Calico. Rob Roth designed the set, built by Colorado-based Distortions, which features something called a Rejuvenator chamber, plus an assortment of macabre props and body parts. (Roth also serves as the show's choreographer.)...

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