The Rocky Horror Picture Show

[Alice_2014_B]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is coming to my favorite local theatre January, same theatre I was in "A Few Good Men" last year.

I'm not going to audition because I cannot sing; unless there's an off-hand chance they need people that will not be signing at all.

Has anyone dressed up for this show as an audience member?

:)

[Majella St Gerard]

I just performed in a Rocky shadow cast, I was Trixie and did the intro Science Fiction Double Feature and played Eddie. I had an absolute ball.

[Tracii G]

I've only seen snippits of the movie and didn't care for it.
I understand its a cult thing to dress up as a character in the movie but from what I saw of the movie I don't want to be thought of as a freak in public.

[Kate Simmons]

Many times. Still have the rice in my purse to prove it. :heehee::)

[mechamoose]

What, you didn't bring toast and a raincoat?

Goddess, Harvard Square, (Cambridge MA, Boston West) the fertile ground for many of my decadencies . Au Bon Pain and public chess games. What a cultural petri dish!

The theater there did it every week. Halloween midnight showing was the BEST night to go. The stage crew would show up in costume in a hearse.

I made sure** each of my (now adult) children saw that show live. It mattered.


** I also made sure they saw Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I'm a good parent, they NEEDED to have those memories

- Kitty / Moose

>> Team Magenta <<

(What is a radio picture!?!?!?)

[Mayo]

On a related topic, I'm not sure how I feel about casting Laverne Cox as Dr. Franknfurter, but I guess we'll see how that goes when the remake comes out later this month.


(What is a radio picture!?!?!?)
According to Wikipedia, RKO was an American film production & distribution company formed by the merger of KAO, FBO and RCA (Radio Corporation of America). At various times it was known as RKO Productions, Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, RKO Teleradio Pictures and RKO Pathé. 'RKO' stands for Radio-Keith-Orpheum (the K-O coming from KAO), but I guess the duplication of the 'Radio' part is intended to emphasize the ownership by RCA. Saying 'An RKO Radio picture (show)' is the equivalent of saying 'A Warner Bros. motion picture'.

The original King Kong (1933) was made by Radio Pictures.

[Dana44]

The Rocky horror show played in Houston at one theater and it is still like playing it. It was always filled and many cross-dresser went to it. I saw it many times and people would sing along. This is one that a remake will not be better.

[Lorileah]

On a related topic, I'm not sure how I feel about casting Laverne Cox as Dr. Franknfurter, but I guess we'll see how that goes when the remake comes out later this month.
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It will bomb. Remakes rarely do better than the originals. In context here, it will just tend to blur the lines for the transcommunity and reinforce stereotypes of what a TS (Or CD) really is. But then again, so did the original. I stopped performing "Sweet Transvestite" live in cabaret shows because it felt I was insulting my friends (now if a Transvestite or CD sang it, I wouldn't have a problem, it was just I wasn't and it made people think I was). Funny, when I sing Can't Help Loving that Man of mine they don't think I'm gay

[Taylor186]

If you are talking about the movie, I go every year (this year will be my tenth), on Halloween night, at a nearby classic old 1500 seat theater. Generally 1200 - 1300 crazed fans show up with lots and lots of costume crossdressing going on.

[Alice_2014_B]

I was meaning more of who has all ever dressed up as one of the characters to go see the show.
However, I'm still enjoying all the comments and input.

:)

[Tracii G]

Lorileah makes a good point and I think the whole show paints CD.TG,TS,TV community in a bad light.
I realize its fantasy and just a show but it fortifies the public's image that we are all perverts that prance around in ladies underwear.
It really is bordering on disgusting.

[kymmieLorain]

Rocky Horror without Tim Curry as frank. NOT. It will bomb because of the dedicated masses will only do the real thing. plus If you cannot dress up or bring props to the theater why go. How well did the live version last year go. my SO is a devoted fan, she changed the channel after about 10 minutes (if that)

Kymmie

[Tracy Irving]

I have never seen this show. Is it any good?

[mechamoose]

Yah, it will bomb.

If it was good, it was good for what it was. You gonna remake 'Conan the Barbarian'? 'Back To The Future'? '2001'? "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"?

Don't try to improve perfect.

"There is no Dana, only ZOOL!"

[Taylor186]

For the record: 'The Rocky Horror Show' (post #10) is a play starring whoever, and 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' is the 1975 movie starring Tim Curry. I've been to both, in costume. And, yes, there is a remake of RHPS coming out in late October.

[Tracii G]

I have never seen this show. Is it any good?

You will have to see it and make up your own mind.
You can watch snippits of it on you tube.

[mechamoose]

Tim Curry's BEST role, ever

A remake? Really?

That is sad.

- K / M

Ghoststbusters!?!?

"Lets go To the lab, and see what is on the slab"

"Dammit Janet"

[Princess Chantal]

I usually go once or twice a year to either a reshow of the movie and/or a live performance show. I don't dress up as one of the characters, my own creative juices wouldn't allow me to copy. So I dress up in my own take on it.

[SarahSerene]

My first time out dressed was to go to a Rocky Horror Picture Show (wow... eight years ago now). It wasn't as a character, but I wore a cool, gothic witch's costume with faux fishnets and some serious black pumps. It was exhilarating and a lot of fun. I still have the costume come to think of it. This thread makes me think maybe I should go Halloween weekend just for something different than my normal going out activities.

While I agree with the other posters that the way it portrays cross-dressing today feeds into dated stereotypes, the folks that go to these midnight showings are of a pretty all-inclusive mindset.

[docrobbysherry]

Why in the world would any of us want to do THAT, Alice!?:brolleyes:

Mods: I had permission to post these. In fact they r all old photos and were posted online some time ago.

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It was too much fun is why-----:D

[mechamoose]

RHPS is a theater experience. You can't just watch the movie. The movie all alone is kind of weak. It is the audience participation that makes it wonderful.

[ellbee]

I've been to one before. Bunch of us in college (none dressed up, though).


Actually wasn't a fan. At all. :thumbsdn:

[Taylor186]

RHPS is a theater experience. You can't just watch the movie. The movie all alone is kind of weak. It is the audience participation that makes it wonderful.

Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes!

[Mia001]

Hi Alice,

I went to the stage show for the first time in August. Dressed as Janet. It was a brilliant show and there were lots of people dressed up.

I started a thread with a pic.

http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/showthread.php?242715-New-Pic&highlight=

Mia.

http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/showthread.php?242715-New-Pic&highlight=

[susan jackson]

I first saw the stage show in 1986, and I have seen it dozens of times since then