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THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW - London's King’s Road Theatre, 1974.
Music & Lyrics: Richard O’Brien
Director: Jim Sharman
Musical Director: Richard Hartley
Producer: Michael White
Original Cast: Jonathan Adams (Narrator),
Tim Curry (Frank-n-Furter).
Rayner Bourton (Rocky Horror),
Christopher Malcolm (Brad), Belinda Sinclair (Janet),
Richard O’Brien (Riff-Raff), Patricia Quinn (Magenta),
Little Nell (Columbia), Paddy O’Hagan (Eddie/Dr Scott)
Songs: Science Fiction Double Feature, Over at the Frankenstein Place, Sweet Transvestite, In Just Seven Days I Can Make You a Man, Time Warp, I’m Going Home.
Story: It is a dark and stormy night. Brad and Janet are stranded when their car breaks down, so they seek refuge in a nearby castle owned by Dr Frank’n’Furter, a sweet transvestite from Transylvania and staffed by his strange butler, Riff-Raff, and the very odd Magenta and Columbia. Frank has collected the appropriate body-parts to make himself the perfect muscle man to serve his wicked way – a wicked way he also achieves with both Brad and Janet.(Frank’s previous attempt at making a perfect man is kept in the deep-freeze, since Eddie turned out to be damaged goods!) Rescue appears in the form of Dr Scott, the wheelchair-bound former college tutor of Brad and Janet. He gets to the bottom
of the set-up: the inhabitants of the castle are really aliens from the planet Transsexual, controlled by Riff-Raff. Frank has over-stepped the mark and is exterminated before the others take off in their spaceship. Brad, Janet and Dr Scott are left behind, having developed a taste for wearing basque, suspenders and fishnets.
(This was a seven-year success story that started in a tiny studio theatre in 1973, then became a cult movie.)
TitlesThe Rocky Horror Show
LanguagesEnglish