The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event Offical Thread

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 4:40pm

With all the new casting news, I thought it would be better to have one thread to post about everything.

 

The cast so far:

• Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
• Victoria Justice as Janet Weiss
• Ryan McCartan as Brad Majors
• Annaleigh Ashford as Columbia
• Christina Milian as Magenta
• Reeve Carney as Riff-Raff
• Staz Nair as Rocky
• Adam Lambert as Eddie
• Tim Curry as the Criminologist
• Ben Vereen as Dr. Scott

Updated On: 2/8/16 at 04:40 PM

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 4:46pm

Consolidation is always a message board's friend!

 

I'm still soooooo mixed on this production. Some of the casting makes sense and is even exciting but others are so WTF I can't imagine it being good.

[TerrenceIsTheMann]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 4:48pm

Well, this is looking to be QUITE the interesting event. 

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 4:50pm

You know, they're planning to reimagine the look of the show as well. So I can't imagine the Rocky Horror purists to be ecstatic about this. What's even weirder is that this has been in the works since 2003, and this is the cast they go with. So weird. I agree, some of the casting makes me want to see it now, but some of it makes me want to see it never. It's a weird horrific mix of excitement and nervousness. Sorta like how you feel when watching Rocky Horror.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 4:53pm

This should be re-titled to The Rocky Horror Picture Show Craptastic event. It's beginning to shape up to be a stinking heap

Updated On: 2/5/16 at 04:53 PM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 4:55pm

In just 7 days I can make you a politically correct ma-ha-ha-ha-aaaaaaan! 

Updated On: 2/5/16 at 04:55 PM

[Shrek3]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 6:03pm

Carlos. come on now. You have bitched about every single live musical broadcast this year months before they aired and each one turned out really good. You're even getting on Hairspray's case already. Can't you just wait and watch these shows until you condemn everything like a raging conservative republican? 

Updated On: 2/5/16 at 06:03 PM

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 6:51pm

The casting could be way worse, and my favorite is doing another musical after two years of plays, so I'm remaining optimistic. I think for me the design element (and if they use the stage score or the screen score) will be a pivotal point for me. I'm not ecstatic about the whole cast, but Justice, McCartan, Carney, and of course Ashford have got me excited. And at the very least, Cox and Lambert have got me intrigued. So all in all, this could potentially be a great film.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 7:03pm

What's the difference between the Criminologist and Dr. Scott? Were these two different roles in past productions?

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 7:17pm

If I'm not mistaken, the 2001 revival had two different actors. I believe they've always been two different actors on stage. One is a narrator, and one is an actual character. 

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 7:27pm

CindersGolightly said: "If I'm not mistaken, the 2001 revival had two different actors. I believe they've always been two different actors on stage. One is a narrator, and one is an actual character. 

 

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Thanks. That's what they did in the production aired by the BBC, but because they used celebrity narrators, I thought it was just a gimmick for that evening. I'm right that the same actor fills both functions in the motion picture, yes?

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 7:29pm

No, the role is NOT double cast in the film. Though I believe Dr. Scott in the film was the Criminologist in one of the earlier productions.

 

The only roles that are sometimes double cast are Dr. Scott and Eddie.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 7:29pm

"You have bitched about every single live musical broadcast this year months before they aired ..."


How well versed in history you are for somebody who has been here four days, sherk3.

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 7:31pm

From memory, it seems like it...but it's been a couple of years since I've watched it, so I couldn't tell you for sure.

[Shrek3]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 7:35pm

How well versed in history you are for somebody who has been here four days, sherk3.

 

Well ya know.  :)

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 7:46pm

Mr. Nowack said: "No, the role is NOT double cast in the film. Though I believe Dr. Scott in the film was the Criminologist in one of the earlier productions.

 

 

 

The only roles that are sometimes double cast are Dr. Scott and Eddie.

 

"

Right you are re the film, Mr. N! Is my face red! I've only seen the film about 100 times (I lived just down the street from the New Yorker Theatre in Manhattan). Somehow I got the idea that the two roles were played by the same actor, until your response sent me to IMDB, where I could see the two men side by side. Obviously, they are not the same.

 

And, yes, I believe the same actor doubled as Eddie and Dr. Scott in the BBC airing (using an abundance of fake make-up to look older as Scott). But, obviously, I am not to be trusted on such matters.

 

I'd blame Alzheimer's, but I first saw the movie when I was 23.

[darquegk]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 10:39pm

Eddie, Scott and the Narrator/Criminologist are occasionally the same actor, but it's not extremely common. The Bucks County Playhouse version used the doubling, if I recall.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 11:40pm

@shrek3 I did not complain about Grease Live or The Wiz so you need to really STFU and stay in your lane, lest you get run over biotch. Keep it cute.

Updated On: 2/5/16 at 11:40 PM

[Shrek3]

Posted: 2/6/16 at 12:46am

Ummmm really? You're a liar. You complained so much about the Wiz that the friends you had in the Wiz told you to shut up. And with Grease you went on and on about how it was going to be terrible and "LAME" because they were copying the movie. And now you're bashing Hairspray cause it's a "safe choice". um girl, Grease it a alot more safer choice than Hairspray! And of course you started on Rocky too. Not that I really care or  anything but really now, you do this every. damn. time...

 

Updated On: 2/6/16 at 12:46 AM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 2/6/16 at 2:32am

@Shrek3: So fucking what....then don't read my fucking posts then if it bothers you that much. 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 2/6/16 at 8:21am

Well, now that that delightful detour is over...

 

My two cents so far: I'm willing to suspend disbelief, because I don't think Lou Adler or Tim Curry would be involved with this if it was going to desecrate the memory of Rocky Horror, but I'm skeptical. All I've seen so far from the press for this has been a series of casting choices that make utterly no sense; as a whole, it's the most random cast I've seen for anything ever. Some will say that they're deliberately going for something different because you can't replicate a classic, and I wouldn't mind that if it seemed like they were actually trying. This cast doesn't feel like a unit. It feels like individual attempts to grab headlines on the part of the producers.

 

And now, Ben Vereen as Dr. Scott? Don't get me wrong, I love Ben and his work, but this is not his part. It makes no sense to confine a legendary song-and-dance man to a wheelchair for the duration of the evening (though somewhere David Foster must be cringing), and it's kind of odd to give a role designed as a parody of a Dr. Strangelove character who it is implied might be a former Nazi (complete with German accent) to a person of color, for a variety of reasons.

 

(And before anyone jumps to the obvious conclusion, you can fuck right the hell off with crying racist. My company is one of the leading employers of people of color in this field.)

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/6/16 at 10:25am

Weel, for the amount of screen time Dr. Scott has, I think Ben will be a hoot. I can easily see him knocking it out of the park with "Eddie."

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/6/16 at 12:50pm

"This cast doesn't feel like a unit."

 

Awww, it's doesn't "feel" like a unit!  Perhaps The Partridge Family could play all the roles.  RIP Tracy

 

sherk3's detailed history is remarkable after only being here five days!

[Shrek3]

Posted: 2/6/16 at 12:56pm

What can I say. :)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/6/16 at 1:13pm

Yes, what can you say?