Roundabout To Revive ROCKY HORROR

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 2:07pm

Don’t f*** this up, Roundabout. Us diehard Rocky fans have been waiting 25 years for this.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 2:09pm

Roundabout has as much edge as a wet cardboard box but I am seated all the same.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 2:19pm

I’d say Sam Pinkleton is the ideal director for this, but after how his La Cage was received in Pasadena (another show he seemed particularly well-suited for), I’m less immediately pumped. But we’re overdue for a great revival of this, so I’m looking forward regardless.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 2:21pm

Exciting!

Curious to see where CATS pivots to, now that the Studio 54 rumors have been deflated.

[Owen22]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 2:43pm

I'm excited!!!!

[quizking101]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 2:54pm

Actively campaigning for Cameron Loyal as Rocky and Sydney James Harcourt as Frank.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 2:55pm

Curious if there are any commercial co producers on this. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 2:58pm

Call_me_jorge said: "Curious if there are any commercial co producers on this."

Yes. 

[nativenewyorker2]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 2:59pm

The sweaty one says Chalamet is playing Frank n Furter

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 2:59pm

Do you know who? This seems like a project ATG would attach themselves to.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 3:01pm

Call_me_jorge said: "Do you know who? This seems like a project ATG would attach themselves to."

Funny you say that. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 3:02pm

If they do the Narrator/Eddie/Doctor Scott track, and not have Narrator as a rotating guest, I'd love to see Alex Brightman or Justin Cooley in that track. (Mostly because I don't think they could get Bill Hader to do it...)

[quizking101]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 3:15pm

nativenewyorker2 said: "The sweaty one says Chalamet is playing Frank n Furter"

ROCKY HORROR is enough of a recognizable property where we don’t need someone of Chalamet’s caliber to lead the production. 

Plus, in 2025, I think Sam Pinkleton knows better than to cast someone who isn’t queer in an explicitly queer role.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 3:17pm

Oh, I hope the Narrator is a rotating role. That was so much fun before and really helps get people back again and again and again. Imagine Patti taking that on and getting to shout out to her for two hours. There's really no end to the fun you can have with that. 

But this is kind of my concern with Rocky being at Studio 54 - you need to make GOOD seats accessible to people who know this show well enough to shout out. They're a part of this show, as much as anyone else up on that stage. And if those people are priced out (and we/they will see this a LOT) and can only afford rear mezz if they're gonna see it multiple times, with actors straining to hear shout outs and repeated "WHAT??" then the revival will fail. And in that same respect you need to find a way to make sure the entire theatre can hear these shoutouts because something shouted and responded to from the back of the balcony won't carry all the way up. It'll be a real challenge for them in that space. 

 

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 3:18pm

Please just don’t be that cardboard set thing that just toured Australia and is currently doing the UK ( Jason Donovan was Frank ) everything about that lacked charm. 
Rocky on stage is a hard thing to get right, well the last few overseas tours have sadly proven that. 

[jpbran]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 3:34pm

The online discussions re: casting Frank are going to be... a lot. Possibly enough to prevent this from seeing the light of day unless they figure out a way to please everyone, but I'm hoping to be wrong. 

[communitytheatergal88]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 4:05pm

Has it really been 25 years????? I feel like I just saw it on Bway a few years ago..but obviously not lol

Chalamet interesting choice.   I'd be up for Adam Lambert as Frank

Updated On: 3/6/25 at 04:05 PM

[BETTY22]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 4:20pm

I cannot wait. 

[quizking101]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 4:20pm

communitytheatergal88 said: "Has it really been 25 years????? I feel like I just saw it on Bway a few years ago..but obviously not lol

Chalamet interesting choice. I'd be up for Adam Lambert as Frank"

Considering Lambert was rumored as Frank for the later-maligned FOX remake (where he played Eddie), this would be acceptable star casting to me.

[darquegk]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 4:43pm

jpbran said: "The online discussions re: castingFrank are going to be... a lot. Possibly enough to prevent this from seeing the light of day unless they figure out a way to please everyone, but I'm hoping to be wrong."

Eh, the online discussion around a major Rocky Horror revival in 2026 are going to be rough either way. "Why are we cheering on this homophobic, transphobic, pro-rape musical?" Because it's CAMP. It's a spoof of James Bond "raping his women into loving him," with a gender-fluid gay Nazi space vampire instead of a super macho cishet government man. But it's hard to parody something to a generation that isn't familiar with the thing being parodied; see also the upcoming Princess Bride, where it's going to be hard to sell the joke that Buttercup is the McGuffin in her own story to an audience who have seen the damsel in distress trope subverted for their entire lives.

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 5:48pm

Could Cole Escola play Frank? Not suggesting- just asking. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 6:23pm

Hopefully it's nothing like the boring, annual production that Bucks County Playhouse puts up every year.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 6:30pm

This was my first Broadway show and I have been desperate for it to come back ever since. I am trying to keep my expectations in check because I have such a soft spot in my heart for the 2001 production - which, despite being flawed, was perfect to me. I like Timothee Chalamet but I hope he goes nowhere near this production. 

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 7:11pm

Let's just remount the last revival please. 

[Kad]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 7:35pm

I’ve heard Chalamet too and it frankly (pun unintended) makes little sense to me. 

As for the “it’s problematic” discourse, Rocky Horror has largely managed to avoid it. Every so often someone tries to make an issue out of it, and every time they are rightfully shouted down.