It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right...

[Blue66669]

I played Magenta for a year at the Houston River Oaks cast. WOO!!!

[irish]

OMG! We used to run a downtown indoor theater. When we first got the movie to run, we had no clue about it. The night it opened, all these strange people showed up! I was like..what the he**?.......lmao!
Anyways, there was a stage in the theater and some got up and danced on it to the time warp, in front of the screen! OMG! I was just staring at these people! Needless to say, the next showing, I had the tp, toast, memorized some of the ab-libs and knew the time warp! 
Character....hmmmmmmm.....has to be Columbia.
Can you believe how much Tim Burton, has changed?? LOL!!!!!

[VIII]

1978,... alone,... loved it!

Riff Raff, such sinister quietude, with rock-n-roll outbursts:

"I REME-EMBER DOING THE TI-IME WARP!!!"

Yes, I went in costume, but stopped going at 100 shows

[Aiacha]

I never wanted to see it because, it's a horror movie, isn't it?  I don't like horror movies.  Then I saw it.  Tee-hee-hee.  Did a few shows with a shadowcast back home, but put it on the back burner for a long time.  I do enjoy going from time to time.  In fact, I've just been in January.

Meh, can't bring photobucket up, but when I got home I'll add my pic to the piccie pile...

Here we go...

[Butch]

I remember the movie posters in the late 70s (78, maybe?) before it became the midnight phenominom.  I saw it at midnight in Sep 1980, and many times since!  The audience makes the show, that's for sure!  Tim Curry (Frank N. Furter) was my favorite.

[captmarga]

I've seen about half of the movie.  Watching it by myself in my dorm room, that's about as far as I could get through.  Apparently it's severly lacking the "something" that makes it so awesome when watched this way.

Oddly enough, I LOVE many of the songs from it, and throughly enjoyed dancing to Time Warp and Sweet Transvestite w/my stage combat troupe when we performed at haunted houses.  We had people act the main characters, and the rest of the group was backup.  Apparently I do a pretty good Columbia (lip-syncing, anyway.  There's no way I can actually talk like that ).

At some point, I need to go see it properly, so I can decide what I really think of the movie. 

You are right - alone, just watching... Bleh.  You have to know the lines, have the friends, do the moves.  It just goes over like a lead balloon otherwise.  It's the experience, not the movie.   

I did Columbia in the floor show at the local... once.  As a walk-on, "Hey, can you do Columbia???"  Me - sure...

Many years ago. 

Capt Marga

[Rani Zemirah]

It was from late '78-'80, and I saw it 239 times in the theater... when I stopped counting.  I've played every character except Frank and Rockie, but my mainstay was Magenta (duh...).  Wish i had pics from then, but they were all Polaroid, and as far as I know, none survived...     I do recall my mom having one of me as Columbia, but haven't seen it in at least 20 years, so I doubt it's still around. 

Fave character to play was Riff Raff, though...

"Frankenfurter it's aaaalll oooover
You mission is a failure
You're lifestyle's too extreme...."

I was only 14-15, and it was exhilarating to find people with such open minds, who also knew how to have FUN!!! 

[Trillium]

I was 15 or 16 when my sister introduced me to it. When I would visit my mom for the summer, I would spend some time with her also (she's 7 years older than me).  I had a blast!  Even more so when people started handing me spiked drinks...

[Jessi]

I was 18 the first time. My date took me because I had mentioned that I had never seen it. I was mesmerized. The next year I started to work at that theater so I got to see at least parts of the movie every weekend. We had a live cast. Toast and water pistols were only allowed on Halloween night. LOTS of memories!!! 

[dfloyd888]

RHPS isn't RHPS without a cast.  I should go see it at the Alamo sometime.

Eeep... since I've not been there yet, I'd be... virgin...

uhoh.

[CapnFayeCutler]

*LOVE* going to see RHPS at the Belcourt here in Nashville! The cast is great! I just wish they did it more than twice a year - April and Halloween. ;_;

I can't wait for Repo! to make it to the Belcourt! Can we say amazing double feature?

[Aiacha]

RHPS isn't RHPS without a cast.  I should go see it at the Alamo sometime.

Eeep... since I've not been there yet, I'd be... virgin...

uhoh.

I'm probably going again May 15th at the River Oaks if you're in Houston and interested.  I'm probably going to try to put a little group together.  PM me...

[bradenmac]

Hmm, I'd say 81-82 time frame, I was 15-16, I remember....Doing the Time Warp!

Riff Raff was my fave. I once tried explaining RH to a relative who grew up in the same rural area I live now. Needless to say, there wasn't much "alternative" culture in these here parts. So, one day after seeing ads for VH1's showing of the movie back in the 90's, I began telling her about what you do at a RH showing. She looked at me like I grew three heads and was speaking in Klingon....

"Participating" is much more fun than simply watching RH.

[will paisley]

I've seen about half of the movie.  Watching it by myself in my dorm room, that's about as far as I could get through.  Apparently it's severly lacking the "something" that makes it so awesome when watched this way.

Oddly enough, I LOVE many of the songs from it, and throughly enjoyed dancing to Time Warp and Sweet Transvestite w/my stage combat troupe when we performed at haunted houses.  We had people act the main characters, and the rest of the group was backup.  Apparently I do a pretty good Columbia (lip-syncing, anyway.  There's no way I can actually talk like that ).

At some point, I need to go see it properly, so I can decide what I really think of the movie. 

You are right - alone, just watching... Bleh.  You have to know the lines, have the friends, do the moves.  It just goes over like a lead balloon otherwise.  It's the experience, not the movie.   

One of the universal shout outs at a "live" movie theater performance is "The audience has the best lines!"  I tell people who have only seen it on TV by themselves that they haven't seen the movie.  The first few performances I saw (University of Florida, 82 and San Antonio, 86 or so) had the shout outs fitting the movie so well that I thought the studio came up with the whole idea of audience participation, and that the bulk of the shout outs had been written as part of the script.  I still can't believe that the 25th Anniversary Special showed all the clips yet included none of the shout outs, almost pretending they were non-existent ("Like your neck!")

[holierthanthou]

In 1986 I was honorarily whip creamed and cling-peached for my 55th performance by the cast at the Chapel Hills Mall Theater in Colorado Springs.  I alternately played Janet, Columbia and the occasional Magenta.  We usually invaded Denny's after the show. 

Moved to Ohio and tried to get in the action there, but it wasn't the same.  The didn't scream at the screen a lot and no one tried to help the globe rotate.  I knew I was in for a very passive audience participation experience.  Tried to get them to get into it and all but one thought I was nuts. 

Can't imagine watching it on the tube.  Just doesn't seem the same, but I'm old school. 

I still dance to the Time Warp with gusto every time I hear it.  Strangely gets requested to every DJ'd event I go to.