The Rocky Horror Show Casting Announcement — Page 2

That show has the 10pm time slot, though. They can get away with more than something at the 8 or 9pm slots.

After casting Laverne Cox as Frank, there was no redeeming this for me. I'll pass.

Does anyone know who's doing the casting? I assume it's Telsey since they did Grease Live and they cast Annaleigh in/as everything.

I hope the arrangements are more similar to the stage version (or what I know of the stage version) than the movie version. I first became introduced to this show by the original Roxy cast recording when I was really too young to watch the movie because my dad saw it 7 times at the Roxy with Tim Curry and the original cast. (Well, probably too young to listen to the recording too, but DEFINITELY too young to see the movie.) I remember dancing around in my living room and singing the "I feel so dreamy, oh fantasy free me...." and "with a bit of a mind lift..." verses I don't like that those lines were mostly spoken in the movie, and Riff Raff says "with a bit of a mind flip" and "And nothing can ever be the same." I greatly preferred the version in the Roxy cast recording. And I also loved the Roxy cast recording version of "toucha toucha touch me..." I feel like that was one of the first songs I started singing along with where I felt like I was able to express adult urges. (Not publicly... I sang it by myself... but it sure was a heck of a different feeling than singing along to Phantom.) Abigale Haness sounds like she really IS starting to be dirty in that recording. Susan Sarandon does not, and I think it's largely the rearrangement of the melody for the line "I wanna be dirty" that really bugs me.

Anyway, I digress, but in any event.... I don't have high hopes, but I'd be thrilled if this were closer to what I hear in the Roxy cast recording than the movie soundtrack. I can barely watch the movie just because the Roxy cast recording is so ingrained in my brain and I love it so much.

Let's face it, even if the production values are great (ala Grease), this is going to be a "Glee"-type version of Rocky Horror.

TrChSpHa said: "We now have our Magenta -- Christina Milian.

https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/christina-milian-rocky-horror-picture-show-magenta-cast-fox-1201696042/"

UGH. Not pleased with this. Could they really not find anybody better? Magenta is one of my favorite characters.

Ranger Tom said: "They make a brilliant move with Annaleigh and then flub it on Magenta. Blah.

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Exactly!

What a mess.

It could have been a brilliant move. The real stars of the show are Frank, Riff, Magenta, and Columbia. The ****ed up with Frank, made good on Riff and Columbia, and ended with a bad move on Magenta. They could have casted someone worse but it's clear to me that Annaleigh Ashford is going to walk away with this show. There was a line on SMASH once - "I was a bright light in a bad show." - we have found our bright light. Hopefully some of these portrayals will surprise us. But as said before, the casting is the least of the issue here.

Via Wikipedia: The creative team is planning "to stick faithfully to the text and the score of the original but greatly reimagine the story visually".

I thought Elle was horrible in Grease. I got so annoyed at seeing Patty Simcox so much

On FX this could've been killer.

CindersGolightly said: "The real stars of the show are Frank, Riff, Magenta, and Columbia. The ****ed up with Frank, made good on Riff and Columbia, and ended with a bad move on Magenta. They could have casted someone worse but it's clear to me that Annaleigh Ashford is going to walk away with this show."

I didn't know they'd announce Riff, who's playing him? Can someone post the entire cast that's been announced?