Rocky Horror Show...how is it possible?

What doing the musical? Um..fairly easily. Remember, movies have big budgets. In the original Theatre Upstairs, they had no huge special effects, no car, no elevator. If you are referring to the people who dress up and act it out in front of the movie screen, well it's kinda how it sounds.

Perhaps it's because I'm only familiar with the (as you stated) big-budget movie version, but I can't even begin to imagine it as a live stage show (meaning the actual musical, not people performing in front of the movie). Of course, I thought the same thing when I learned there was a musical version of "Big," but then I saw the musical a knew how they made it work. Can anyone just tell me what the show is like on stage compared to how it was presented in the movie?

One thing I can't see working on the stage are the cuts to the narrator (or whatever he was). I also have difficulty imagining the house lifting off at the end, but I figure if they can drop a chandelier in "Phantom" that it can't be too hard to do the house in "Rocky horror."

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Updated On: 8/3/06 at 05:57 PM

Do you happen to know who controls the performance rights (MTI, Samuel French, etc.)?

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Rocky Horror is awesome on stage. I saw it right before it closed, and if you like the movie, you'll love the stage version. What's cool is that the actors actually come out and interact with the audience. I remember this one phantom, like dry-humped this old woman.

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Sweeney Phanatic, Rocky Horror was on stage in the UK before it became a film. It was performed originally as a cabaret-style show, with Tim Curry. I forget what the year was. The film was made in 1975.

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kaboodles, the film is still running at midnight now, after over 30 years. It may have been low budget but certainly has recouped over and over.

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The narrator just walks onto the stage, in a certain spot, usually far stage right or left, and delivers his monos. I'm pretty sure they don't do the rising house in the stage production. Does anyone know what they did in the Circle In The Square version when Riff and Magenta leave the plannet?

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I just got Cast as Riff Raff and I tell you, I just read the script...It's going to be a riot. Especially with all of the audience participation that the crowd brings to the show.

Our set will be blank stage with roll on props...very basic, very 'modern'

But the show is different in the way that some of the movie's scenes ... like the dinner table...are not in the stage show. Those were added to the movie.


Also the sets are not the same in the stage show, because obviously its a stage, not a studio with lots of ability to have lots of sets and On location shooting (for a car for example)

But if you ever have the chance to see it live DO IT, and dress up, because it makes the experience that much more interesting.

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Updated On: 8/4/06 at 05:21 AM