The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event Offical Thread

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

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

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

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

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

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?

"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.

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

Well ya know. :)

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.

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

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.)

"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!

Yes, what can you say?