Talk:The Rocky Horror Show

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Contents 1 Stage sing along 2 POV 3 Horroar 4 New Zealand stage version 5 Reorganization

[edit] Stage sing along

Any references for this claim: "However, in other countries, the stage show has become a cult, with fans dressing up as the characters and reciting the lines out loud along with the cast."

Dressing up and audience participation is well known in the US midnight screenings of the movie version. I have never heard of audience participation in any live performance. Asa01 08:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

My parents tell tales of Rocky Horror audience participation. I don't ask any more though. :) -- Longhair 08:04, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Could have been the film - which in Aust recently had a midnight screening on New Year's Eve 2005 at the Astor in Melbourne. Asa01 22:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I went recently to see the stage play at Hart House and short of chucking stuff at the stage, there was plenty of fancy dress and call backs. Though no one recited the actual lines of the script. I will modify and restore this sentence. Carolynparrishfan 14:39, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

There has definitely been audience participation at the stage shows. Here at the recent run in Toronto, but the last Broadway run had more. All of the audience callbacks, AND the thrown props. In an interview with Tom Hewitt (Frank on Broadway), he says there was a night that so much toilet paper was thrown onto the stage during Dr. Scott's entrance that the show had to be stopped so they could clean it up before continuing. 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh it definately happens in the stage productions touring the UK! Luckily people dont throw things, but shout Brad and Janet's traditional "ASSHOLE!" and "SLUT!" lines as well as others, reciprocated by the cast such as:

FRANK: "And you shall receive it, in abundance!"

AUDIENCE: "What's abundance?"

FRANK: "It's a disco in a bakery, darlings"

and

FEMALE NARRATOR: "There were storm clouds ahead..."

AUDIENCE: "Describe your balls!"

FEMALE NARRATOR: "I don't have any, but for the purposes of comedy I shall continue..."

Yes, I went to see it last night in London (playhouse theatre) and there is definitely A LOT of audience participation... More than any show I've ever seen...!

It should be noted that the people don't throw things in the UK is largely because theatres have banned taking things in. At the producation at DMH I saw, things banned included: rice, water-pistols, toast and kit-kats. Morwen - Talk 08:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV

Is it definitely unfortunate that some theaters don't allow fans to shoot water pistols? --Amanaplanacanalpanama 02:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Horroar

I seem to recall somehting about an alternate misspelling of Rocky Horroar Show that was in use.

Anyone else know more about that?

[edit] New Zealand stage version

I'm pretty sure Gary Glitter was not in the NZ stage version. I believe Muldoon was briefly in the NZ version in the mid 1980s, as the narrator. --Helenalex 21:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Gary was in the '78 production; he's on the cast album. Metalion SOS 01:00, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reorganization

I thought it would be nice to organize this article with some headers, since most of it was completely unorganized, and written above the table of contents. In addition, I deleted/rewrote a few paragraphs, which either contained spoilers (in the intro!), were badly written, read like OR (and some POV), etc.

This article still needs quite a bit of work, in my opinion (for example, there clearly needs to be a section on what the play is actually about!). However, I don't really know anything about the play at all, so I feel like I've done all I can. I'm tagging the article for cleanup so that hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me will pick up where I have left off. Torgo 22:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)