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 6 Re-done Plot 7 Inspired by Ziggy Stardust?

[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?

This is an incorrect version of the play's first rough draft title which appeared in some early articles. When Richard O'Brien first conceived the show, he called it "Rock Horroar." After Jim Sharman agreed to stage it, the play went into casting and rehearsals with the working title "They Came From Denton High." In the second Rocky Horror poster magazine in 1979, Brian Thomson interviewed O'Brien, and Richard reminded him of the sequence of titles. Also, in the 1979 play-related Rocky Horror Scrapbook, a handwritten page from O'Brien from 1973 includes both working titles along with original character names and song titles. Shortly before the play's first preview, Jim Sharman suggested the final title of The Rocky Horror Show.Rockyphantom 21:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[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)

Thank You for your honesty about not knowing about the play. There are other editors that will stake a claim on these articles and actualy vandalise them with over tagging when they are simply unable to do what they think is needed for that exact reason. I commend you. --Amadscientist 20:17, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re-done Plot

Hello, everyone. This is my first contribution to Wikipedia as a registered user, so I hope it was a helpful one!

Using the script from the play found here:http://www.rockyhorror.org/faq/faqtext/t-trhs.txt

I have rewritten and significantly expanded the plot summary, adding in the locations of all of the songs, and I have moved the songs list to be immediately under the plot summary for easier reference between the two. I will admit that, though I have seen the movie on several occasions, I have not personally seen the theater version of Rocky Horror. If something is missing or a detail is inaccurate, please edit my summary. I also refrained from adding links to other Wiki articles aside from the ones previously there because I'm not sure what is required and what isn't. I'm not sure if this contribution was enough to have the cleanup tag removed, but there are still some minor typographical errors that I (or someone else can, if they'd like) will edit in other areas of the article. --Dareus 05:02, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

I've cleaned up the tone and style of the plot summary and other sections. There's a lot of good information in this article, and it should be more technically correct now. Rockyphantom 20:36, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inspired by Ziggy Stardust?

I heard somewhere - in a David Bowie documentary, I believe - that the writer(s) of the original Rocky Horror Show were inspired by David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" persona. Supposedly Ziggy Stardust inspired the transvestites, the glam rock elements, etc of the show. If this is true, it would be an important element to add to this page. If anyone has any sources verifying this, would you kindly add it to the page?

Richard O'Brien began working on Rocky Horror in 1969, David Bowie was still a Folk Musician then. Additionally, Ziggy Stardust was released in 1972 and Rocky Horror's first production was 1973, a year is hardly time enough to write, and produce a musical production. I think there may have been a general feeling in the air that the Glam Scene was about to explode and O'Brien picked up on this. I mean if you think about it nearly all Glam Musicians have at least one song that elludes to Outer Space, even Lou Reed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.63.206.21 (talk) 05:51, 7 March 2008 (UTC)