Rocky Horror Shout-Outs

[Glory]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 1:44am

I'm finally seeing a live production of Rocky Horror this weekend and it's the show where you dress up and the audience shouts things at the audience like everytime someone says Brad you say ASSHOLE or whatever, I don't really know them. Well I was wondering if any of you had a link or even had a list of things people shout back so I know some of them. Thanks in advance!

[gymdudeva]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 2:19am

Live productions can really vary....usually, the shout-outs are not as audience-driven as at the movie, and the audience interaction is more controlled. Any good production will prep the audience somehow beforehand...a printed list of what to yell, or a pre-show warm-up where they give you instructions. Sometimes extra cast act as audience members and do pre-planned shout-outs that the audience can catch on to and join in with as they are repeated. Many of the movie ones are prop-driven (the rice, for example) and won't work in the live theatre. I googled and couldn't find a list, but there should be something out there. And suddenly this old brain couldn't remember any. I'll sleep on it....

Funniest one I ever heard, at a live production in northern Virginia:

Frank 'n' Furter: Come on Brad! There's no law against giving yourself over to absolute pleasure!
Audience member: There is in Virginia!!

[SkierRob02]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 9:21am

Here is an audience participation script....


Hope you enjoy!!


Rocky Participation Script

Updated On: 8/24/07 at 09:21 AM

[CJR]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 1:50pm

Awe, a Rocky Virgin! I love it!!!!!!

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 1:57pm

Did the show last winter....my favorite is in Science Fiction after the line "Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills" you say "What the F**ks a Triffid?"

[JP2]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 2:08pm

I see it at the movie every other weekend. Total blast.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 2:19pm

The last revival had a kick-ass audience participation bag.

Came with a list of lines and when to say them, confetti (to throw at the wedding scene), a newspaper (to cover your head with), a playing card (I forget why), and a boa (to wear during the floorshow).

[SkierRob02]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 2:20pm

^^ Cards were for when Frank sings "Cards of sorrow, cards of shame" in I'm coming home


Frank: "What ever happened to Fay Wray?"
Audience: "She went ape sh*#"

Updated On: 8/24/07 at 02:20 PM

[Violet Tree]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 2:30pm

I know that many of the cast members of the last revival hated audience particpation. I heard of several accurances when Lea DeLaria and Alice Ripley screamed at audience members because it was distracting.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 2:31pm

Geez,

I remember the first time I saw the film when I was in school. No one warned me about the shout outs and I got mad because I couldn't hear the movie over everyone yelling.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 2:33pm

Having done the show it can get really distracting with the call-outs..,but we had some more dead nights and those were worse because they may be distracting but they made the show fun.

[SkierRob02]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 2:35pm

It's Rocky...What were they expecting? It's definitely NOT quality theater....Just a great time for the audience....For goodness sakes, they sold Rocky bags with confetti to throw and a card with lines on it for the audience to interject with....IMO.

[Violet Tree]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 2:44pm

It's Rocky...What were they expecting? It's definitely NOT quality theater....Just a great time for the audience....For goodness sakes, they sold Rocky bags with confetti to throw and a card with lines on it for the audience to interject with....IMO.

Actually the call outs started with the film, when it was a stage show prior in London there was no call outs, so it makes sense not to have them in a stage production.

[NBC]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 3:23pm

But since the movie came out, the callbacks have been used in London during Rocky Horror Show revivals. (They seem to revive it pretty regularly there!) The audiences didn't just start using them for the U.S. stage revival.

[SkierRob02]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 3:28pm

Every production I have seen of it (even the Bway revival) the audience participates. In my experience, they actually encourage it. For instance, the Bway revival sold Rocky bags. If it was a taboo, the bags wouldn't have been sold. Rocky has such a cult following that it's nearly impossible to stage it or show the film without any of the hoopla going on.

[Violet Tree]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 3:35pm

Yes, but the bags were the producers idea, the actors didn't like it.
Updated On: 8/24/07 at 03:35 PM

[SkierRob02]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 3:39pm

It's Rocky and the actors should have expected it. Most people know what it's all about and know what they are getting themselves into when they agree to do the show.

[Theatrefan33]

Posted: 8/24/07 at 3:41pm

Lea was the exception not the rule. And excluding Shout-outs that made personal reference to the actors, the cast was fine with call backs.
With out the Audience Participation people would have not have seen the show repeatedly and it would have closed in 2 weeks.