The Rocky Horror Picture Show--anyone know if it was originally a stage

joeybee12

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:11 PM
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show--anyone know if it was originally a stage

play/musical?

Just wondering--just watched it--like always, I love the first half, and then it starts to drag. Should only bee seen in midnight movie houses.

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YellowRubberDuckie

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:11 PM
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1. I believe it was.

But I'd google it.
Duckie

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Connie_Corleone

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:12 PM
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I think it was, then became a movie.

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chelsea32491

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:12 PM
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2. I've seen the movie

Edited on Thu Nov-11-04 10:12 PM by chelsea32491

about a MILlION times and i've seen the play about a MILLION And one.

the play is SO much better.
:)
*ehem* musical. haha

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joeybee12

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:17 PM
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5. So, which came first, the chicken or the egg--the movie or the musical?

The movie's about 30 years old now, I believe.

They all look so young in it--especially Barry Bostwick. I have this picture of him being perpetually 30-something--seems like he;s always looked like that age. He looks like a kid in this, though.

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Abelman

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:12 PM
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3. Yes

I believe it was.

If it wasn't, it is now. Very difficult to get the rights to perform, but they did it up by my college (NMU), but I never got a chance to see it.

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DODI

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:16 PM
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4. Yes, it was a stage show first.

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Catshrink

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:17 PM
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6. Stage first -- with Tim Curry as the good doctor.

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joeybee12

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:19 PM
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7. Broadway, or off-off? He's quite the singer, so is Barry Bostwick...

...Susan's not a bad singer, but don't think she has the lungs to do it live.

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Catshrink

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:29 PM
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8. It was in London...

The first stage production was in London.

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zeemike

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Thu Nov-11-04 10:58 PM
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9. It was a stage play first

And the interesting thing is that as movie it was a flop.
But because a bunch of stoned hippies started to make it interactive, that is to talk back to the screen and make themselves a part of the film, and it took off in the underground world.
I first saw it in the 70s when it was almost a ritual to go to the midnight movie and play some part in the flick.
It was the audience participation that made it fun
to just see it as a movie now does not do it justice.

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joeybee12

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Fri Nov-12-04 08:48 AM
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13. And after it becamea cult hit, they re-released it to the mainstream

theaters in, I think, 1979. Flopped again. I actually saw it for the first time in a theater in South Bend, Indiana, and some kids (there were maybe 15 in the whole theater) started getting into it, and threw toast, and the management threw them out!

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tilsammans

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Fri Nov-12-04 12:00 AM
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10. Rocky Horror Show . . .

. . . played at the Belasco Theatre in NYC in 1975. At that time, it was considered a flop.

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WannaJumpMyScooter

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Fri Nov-12-04 12:00 AM
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11. A fantastic show... London, 3 years? I think

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OneBlueSky

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Fri Nov-12-04 12:31 AM
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12. tonight there was a benefit showing hosted by Barry Bostwick . . .

at the Helen Hayes Theater in Nyack, New York . . . to support medical programs for children in Africa . . . would have liked to have gone, but had other plans . . . bet it was great! . . .

http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/110504/e0105rocky.html

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