Review of Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare (1976) by Stuart K — 16 Apr 2013

At the height of his fame, Alice Cooper released Welcome To My Nightmare in 1975, which was his first solo album away from his band, which was also called Alice Cooper. When he took the album on the road, he had something quite epic in mind, which he conceived with choreographer David Winters (Viva Las Vegas (1964) and Pajama Party (1964)), it's a very imaginative stage show which is entertaining to watch.

In the show, Cooper stars as Steven, and the stage show chronicals the nightmares of Steven, which include stage numbers, both rock and sometimes near vaudevillian in nature, with dancing skeletons and ghouls, all seeming to take place in Steven's bedroom, which is some bedroom/graveyard crossover, which Cooper performs songs like Welcome To My Nightmare, Some Folks and Only Women Bleed, as well as old hits like School's Out and No More Mr.

Nice Guy. Plus, there's also an encounter with a giant talking spider (voiced by Vincent Price) as well as 9 foot cylops and other such demons that inhabit these nightmares. Taken from footage filmed on September 11th and 12th, 1975 at Wembley Arena, London with little filmed inserts done at Shepperton Studios.

This is a grand and imaginative concert film with Cooper at the peak of his success here, and it's also very entertaining to watch.