Rocky Horror Show Revival Cast — Page 6

I'd love Brandi Carlile as Columbia À la Joan Jett

You dont like the “exclusive” photos we see every year lol

Honestly I’d love to see some major “names” Jonathan Bailey or TImothee Chalamet or Cheyenne Jackson … if this doesn’t turn out to be a pretty bankable event, even if it was full of Broadway bankable names.  I’m not too terribly interested in the mounting.  

Meanwhile, if you're curious and on the East Coast, Pittsburgh CLO is running a "back to basics" staging of The Rocky Horror Show. Other than a few major changes like the inversion of Time Warp and Sweet Transvestite that are universal now, the show is presented as a partial restaging of the original UK premiere and tour concept, without significant influence from the film, the Broadway and Roxy productions, or anything else. It's even down to a four-piece band again.

Jeff Tupolski said: "THDavis said: "What I would GIVE for a Jennifer Simard Frank. And maybe it’s time to play the stage show with a fierce woman giving very gender-queer aesthetic. A man in tights and heels doesn’t bat an eye anymore, and rightfully so. But a bald, long lashed Simard in a bustiertearing through that score?"

Simard’s great, but I don’t really see it and don’tlike the idea of casting the sweet transvestite with a cisgender woman just doing drag on top of drag.I don’t find this description to sound more shocking than the average portrayal. Also with baritones being less in fashion now, I’d prefer to keep an iconic leadrole within those original keys."

This is exactly why I don’t understand when people suggest casting ideas like Jennifer or the rumored Timothee Chalamet…I feel like casting an assuming straight cisgender person would be immediately panned 

THDavis said: "I respect that. I think from a socially political side, it would make sense for them to cast a non-binary, trans, or at least queer person in the role. I personally don’t believe Frank is more than a man in women’s clothes, though - isn’t that what transvestite more or less meant at the time? He’s also an alien, and Simard is out of this world lol

Notes on baritones absolutelyagreed with - worth protecting the roles. She would just be thrilling to listen to with that score."

it's a bit messy to get into what transvestite meant because a lot of these terms were used in so many different ways - some people who used that term were cis and crossdressing and others were trans. i'd def think right now is not the time to cast a cis person in that role, especially on a broadway stage

I feel if you cast someone Trans as Frank you have to do it subversively otherwise you're left with that middle school film they made for Fox some years ago. A cast good in theory, but in motion was a train wreck. 

Theatrefanboy1 said: "I guess I don’t know why there would be a need for any sexuality publicly attached to the actor played Frank… this is a sweet transvestite from transsexual, Transylvania. This other worldly character could be portrayed by whoever. And “if” it was someone like a Chalamet.,.. so what. "

Because handing over a role to another cis straight (probably white) boy is boring. Chalamet in particular has the sex appeal of a noodle. 

Yeah, I don’t know why it would even matter if the guy is white, cisgender, male.  If they deliver on the role.  Cheyenne Jackson I would see regardless if the role was straight or not. I guess I don’t really care about much of anything off stage. If they deliver on stage.  

In his CBS Sunday Morning interview this past weekend, Tim Curry says his advice to pending Franks is to ""forget the word “camp”, because he's a guy…and he prides himself on being able to f*ck anybody"".

We had a very straight white male in Australia who was before the court for molesting[never proved] a fellow female On Stage. Been banished for years now.

Once we had here Reg Livermore[gay] who was everything--raunchy, VERY funny, camp ! sexy and not any way, drag.

Check out his Betty Blogbuster Follies--it could be Blockbuster--so long ago. 

 

 

 

witchoftheeast2 said: "I'm a little anxious about the potential audience participation here. Wouldn't that just be for the midnight showings, not an actual stage production? Or should I fully avoid this if that's a concern for me?"

I'm confused. Audience participation is a MAJOR part of this show. Every performance. The audience is as much a part of the production as anything else, or at least it needs to be in order to have a successful production. What worries me is that in the enormous Studio 54, how do they successfully accomplish that?