So I recently saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and I loved it. Granted, I had expected to love it, so it wasn’t much of a shock, but still: one rockin’ movie. I can’t get that “Time Warp” song out of my head.
Of course, the movie gets lifted to a whole other dimension of Greatness by Tim Curry, who may well be the greatest movie-transvestite ever (at least in a close tie with Hugo Weaving in Priscilla: QotD - yep, that’s two transvestite movies I absolutely love; I hope this stuff doesn’t scar me for life ). He was… great. No, scratch that. He was amazing. I liked him before, but now I’m a full fledged fan.
So has anyone ever seen the live show? Does it really draw a complete freakshow for an audience? And is “Shock Treatment” any good?
I’ve never been to a midnight showing. I did see the live version on Broadway (narrated by Dick Cavett, and starring Luke Perry as “Brad”). There was still the audience interaction and though I’m not familiar with the movie at least one ad-lib by the guy playing Frank N. Furter. He was doing that thing where he says “Antici-ppppp …” and the audience yells “say it!” So it went like this “Antici-ppppppp … (audience: say it! Say it!) Pay me!” Then he corrected it, doesn’t sound as good as it was, just trust me. There was also a nice update for the AIDS conscious days we live in: Frank used a condom with both Brad and Janet. During “touch-a touch me” (if that’s the title? You know the song I’m talking about) Janet takes her top off which was a surprise.
I originally went because I couldn’t get tickets to anything I wanted to see, but I actually liked it.
The movie hasn’t aged well, or maybe it’s just that I haven’t been a teenager in over 20 years. Even the soundtrack, which I thought was the movies saving grace, has become problematic: I used to try to sing something from RHPS for auditions and discovered just how repetitive and droning every single song from it is. Ah well.
Nice to see Patricia Quinn is titled nobility now.
). He was… great. No, scratch that. He was amazing. I liked him before, but now I’m a full fledged fan.