Seen the movie at a public theater 40 or 50 times, brought tons of friends. Had a blast. Have seen the video once; the little screen can’t hold it. My niece just got to see it for the first time and reported back that it was much fun and she will go again.
I did see the play in the U.K. and thought it good fun, but the audience was not allowed to participate. Boo hoo.
My son went to one. He said there was a guy going down the line, using lipstick to put V’s on the forehead of any first-timers. He considered going along, but the idea made one of the girls in his group cry, so he decided, instead, to yell “I shit bigger things than you. Beat it.” Which apparently worked.
I generally stick the RHPS in the DVD player for the same reason as I do The Sound of Music, for soundtrack purposes with intermittent watching.
I don’t think I’d like TSOM in a theatre either, what with having to wear a wimple during “How do you solve a problem like Maria” and with curtains being thrown about during “Do, a deer, a female deer” and so on.
That’s where I saw it! At the theater in Kent, either 1978 or early 1979.We might have been in the theater at the same time, BMalion! I don’t remember anything about the cast, though, but that’s because I’m so much older than you…lol. We will definitely discuss this at the Dopefest!
We went once, the audience participation was iffy, a few good people, but the majority of people seemed to be there just so they could say that they had gone and were sitting there like lumps, not really doing much of anything. The people didn’t have props, costume parts or know the responses. The actors in front were ok and tried hard but the fun just wasn’t there. The people around us were shusshing us when we were doing the responses :eek::dubious:
My dorm was 3 blocks from the 8th Street Playhouse in NYC, so I saw it a lot. Also saw it at home in Chicago a few times at the Music Box, but the most surreal was the time I saw it in Madrid. There were maybe two dozen people in the audience: me, a crazy American friend who had brought all conceivable props, a German guy who had seen it in NYC, and seventeen very befuddled Spaniards who obviously had no clue about the audience participation side of things and thought my friend with the props was off her rocker. Of couse, Pedro Almodovar hadn’t really made it big yet then; maybe these days, the Spaniards would have been somewhat less befuddled. (The subtitles were truly awful, though, which can’t have helped.)
It was a hell of a lot of fun at the time, but I haven’t had the urge to seek out a theater showing in ages and don’t know if there even are any around here anymore.
Old school late 70’s and early 80’s participant in screenings in the South. Good Lord, that was one freeing experience from the Reagan years. It was one place where different folks could let it all out; honestly, not a whole lot of areas where creative/ sexual expression was to be had then. It really was a godsend to us "different"kids.
I saw the movie five or six times at the Tiffany Theater on Sunset in Hollywood in 1981 or so. The had midnight and 2am shows on Friday and Saturday nights. It was a lot of fun but I’ll probably never see it again.
My mother introduced me and a friend to RHPS while in Junior High. I loved it so much it became a weekend staple event once in HS. But I had known about the music way before hand. Seems the older kids in my boy scout troop used to play the soundtrack almost non-stop on campouts. Didn’t really understand the songs, but it seemed cool to like what the cool kids were listening to.
I still remember one showing where there was some guy down in the front row, drunk as the proverbial skunk (no, it was not me), and his idea of participation was to scream “RO-O-O-O-CKY! HEY, ROCKY! RO-O-O-O-O-CKYYYYYY!” at the screen from beginning to end. But rather than being annoying, it was actually funny as hell.
Disappointing box office or not, it wasn’t a total loss - I can still sing/recite/somewhere-in-between:
…whenever I do anything remotely manual, either at work or around the house. Usually good for an arched eyebrow, that. It never gets old, despite what everyone always tells me.
My first time was on an Air Force base in Germany in, oh, '81, I think; I had no idea what I was getting into.
Probably seen it 30 times since then, but not lately.
Sampiro, a variety of props have been used and banned over time and who knows what will go on in any given venue, but a newpaper will be allowed and might come in very handy.
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