Rocky Horror Audience Participation

[onlylisab]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 1:51pm

I'm directing a student production of Rocky Horror at Miami University. Do any of you know where I can find a good audience participation script???

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 1:52pm

Check around the internet. There are billions of audience participation scripts out there.

[onlylisab]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 1:54pm

I have...they are all for the movie, not the live musical.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 3:29pm

Right...most of the lines for the movie go with the musical.

[onlylisab]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 3:32pm

I'm aware.. Just wondering if there was something else out there.

[CJWesselman]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 3:36pm

Do people generally do aud. part. with the live show? Did they with the revival? Listening to the CD it seems like they have some of the stuff on there, ie "Antici...." "SAY IT!" "..pation," but I was unaware that it was full audience participation at live shows as well. I did the movie thing during high school but have since.....moved on. lol

[nodaybut2day2007]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 3:39pm

The College around me is doing the 25th anniversary (im not sure its 25th) show and they are having midnight aud. participation shows.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 3:46pm

Send me an email (in profile.) I've done the show four times live and have a script on my computer somewhere.
Updated On: 7/22/05 at 03:46 PM

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 9:11pm

If I remember correctly, you can find one on simplyscripts.com.


Here's the link - http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5760/rhps.htm

That's the audience participation one, and they have the other one on there, too.

[Brodybaby03]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 9:38pm

I'm not a freak or anything but I saw the revival like a bajillion times and if you want some of the funnier audience participation stuff PM me your email and I'll send you some of it.

IE: Audience: "Describe Calista Flockhart..."
Frank: "A Weakling weighing 98 pounds...."
Audience " That's 2 Calista Flockharts!"

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 10:05pm

Rocky Horror Show was awesome live on Broadway for the revival! I saw it 4 times and it was constant audience participation! My favorite was when frank n furter was pretending to be Janet and some guy in the audience shouts "That's illegal in New Jersey!" and Tom Hewitt goes, "Well we're not in f*cking New Jersey, are we?!" The audience was rotf. The live show has so much audience participation, it was the most fun I've ever had at a show.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 10:21pm

Or:

Audience: "Describe Mary-Kate!"
Frank: "A Weakling weighing 98 pounds...."
Audience " That's 2 Mary-Kates!"

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 10:22pm

I wish I had seen the Original cast

I did see the broadway production, and I loved it! The AP was awesome, one of my favorites being:

Dr. Scott: It was worse than I imagined...
Audience: ACTORS????!!!!
(Dr. Scott and Frank flip off the audience)

I do have some nightmare stories about seeing a production at Kean University, ugh! Not only was the cast horrible, but my friend and I were the ONLY ones doing AP! We refused to let etiquette get the better of us, so we kept the tradition alive. Some people just don't understand that it's not a typical show. You can't really get mad at audience members for doing it. My favorite AP lines are tied between:

Janet: I don't like a man with too many muscles.
Audience:...Just one big one.

Riff: Say goodbye to all of this...
Audience: Goodbye all of this!
Riff:...and hello...
Audience: Hello!
Riff:...To oblivion!
Audience: Hi oblivion! How's the wife and kids?

Love that show... :)

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 4:36am

I just got back from the opening night of a dinner theatre production near Toronto, and the shout backs are indeed done and welcomed by the cast. Buy they ask that you not throw things at the actors!

Does anone know when this tradition got started? I doubt it dates back to the original London production or the very brief original Broadway production that collapsed after just 32 performances in April 1975.

[professor]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 8:05am

The Rocky Horror audience participation tradition started only after they began to show the movie as a midnight show at the Waverly Theatre in NYC.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 9:27am

And who started it? MARC SHAIMAN, that's who. A young man with a polyester shirt, pointy collars and a dream.

I saw the Broadway production and loved it too.

But really, why not let the audience participate without considering it "scripted." It's sort of like planning to be spontaneous, no?

[Phantom2]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 10:42am

Hey Namo! What's your favorite brand of toothpaste?

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:24am

It actually does get very spontaneous. Just because there are so many different things you can say. Every time I see the movie or went to the show, I heard at least 5 new things of AP that had me rotf. It's just a great experience because the performance changes every time.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:42am

A well-rehearsed cast with strong improv skills should be able to handle EVERYTHING!

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 2:38pm

Scoundrel, I totally agree! I was once watching the movie with a friend of mine, and it was the first time we had watched it together. The movie came to the creation scene and it was the part where the shot turns to frank reaching up in scrubs towards the camera, welcoming the drippy device thingy. I wish I could post the picture, it would make it funnier, but just as it went to that shot, my friend yelled, "It's the first thing a baby sees!" I had never heard that before, but I yell it every time I watch now! Some of them are so creative! Ever since Taboo closed, a friend of mine decided that it was the PERFECT show for AP! I take pride in one particular shout back:

Leigh Bowery: I've had a man or two...
Audience: Is that like a cockatoo?

:) We should find the script and make a whole AP script for Taboo... THAT would be fun...

[Hank]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 8:07pm

Long time RH fan here, so, as it goes:
Most of the shout backs at the Picture Show date back to the mid 70's at The Waverly Theatre, and a bit there after at The 8th St Playhouse. Many of them had to to with what was going on during the Nixon era and with pop culture, most notably some tv commercials at that time ("don't squeeze the Sharmin"). They were also used up here in NJ at the Highway Theatre in Fair Lawn, and in Teaneck (brings back memories!).
At the Broadway revival, the shout backs were handled by a group seated just to the left of the stage, and seemed to be orchestrated, and updated. Many of the rest of us were prepared with the toilet paper, toast, and cards, and confetti was provided to substitute for the rice. Could of used a few more New Years noisemakers.
With any new production, especially at colleges, prepare yourselves for an audience largely made up of "virgins", as stated above at the Kean University showing.

[Mimi Imfurst]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 8:59pm

I have a AP script for the Stage show. Message me.

[Mimi Imfurst]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 9:05pm

Some of the best "edgy" RH AP lines that I've discovered over time...

Frank: Magenta!
Aud: What goes boom in the sky?
Frank: Columbia!

Frank: A one way ticket to the bottom of the bay:
Aud: Just like Aliyah!

Once I saw the show with a black Dr. Scott/Eddie... he was amazing:
Scott: It was worse than I had possibly ever imagined:
Audience: White People!?

My mind is a bit out of it from a nap, but ill think of more when I'm awake.

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 1:24am

Wow... I'm totally lost... When does Frank say, "A one way ticket to the bottom of the Bay"? Cause I've seen the stage show twice, and the movie more times than I care to admit, and I don't remember it... Not to say it's not there, I've just never caught it...

[sidkuhn]

Posted: 10/8/08 at 2:55am

I tried to messgae you and it said you don't take private messages.. :) If you (or anyone) has a script for the AP lines from the play, I'd LOVE to see a copy of it. :)