...I left the Uptown theatre well after 1:00 am and stepped into a time warp arriving 30+ years later, in my home theatre watching Rocky Horror in full HD on a 55" LED flat panel screen. Good Lord, how can it be that long ago!
Felt strange watching it without newspaper, or squirt bottles, or TP, not even a piece of toast. No "fishnets" in sight either.
Any other "Rocky" fans out there? When did you first see the movie? Maybe you saw it and hated it? Who's your favorite character? Just curious.
Me, I loved Columbia.
Some 30 years ago, I got my parents to take me and my best friend to see the movie for my 16th birthday... :o ;D
Dad was less than pleased, but Mom got up and did the Time Warp along with everyone else!!!
Good times!
Oh, my favorite character, could also be your favorite colour, I give you...Magenta!
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I saw it in the theaters in its initial release- when it was "just a movie." Years later, when it became a regular at the theater every Saturday night I saw it again and was shocked to see the audience participation.
Ah, Janet...
I am really hoping I can go to the live show this year but I just love the movie!
Columbia and Riff Raff were always my favorite. ;D
I think I was like seven or eight when i first saw it (this is what happens when brothers babysit).
I saw it when it came out as well and observed as it grew into more of an event...To this day, I still say, "Damn it, Janet!"
This is me playing Columbia back in 2001. I performed with the MPLS cast "Transvestite Soup" for about 5 years.
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Love it!
(http://www.filmid.planet.ee/juuli/RHPS-RW1C2-FrankTattooL.jpg)
I. Love. Him. <3 <3 <3
Oh yeah...saw it for the first time at a midnight showing in Cleveland around 15 or 16 years ago. The nice friends I was with made sure everyone knew I was a "virgin." Good times. ;D
Woot woot 1 of my faves...TC is the sexiest tranny ever...
Quote from: The Honorable Lady Benton on March 21, 2010, 08:35:42 PM
Woot woot 1 of my faves...TC is the sexiest tranny ever...
Amen! He sure does justice to garters and platforms! ;D
lol he does indeed! :D
Let me adjust the settings on my Way Back machine. Ahh, there we go! It wouldve been 1989 or 90. I was fresh out of Basic Training and Tech School and serving at my first active duty station. I had become friends with a group of neo Bohemians and wannabe Wiccans and Pagans (I was young and easily impressed). Upon learning I had never even HEARD of the movie, let alone seen it, they promptly took me to a Friday midnight showing. Needless to say, my young, small town brain was nearly overloaded by the enormous amount of sensory input that is TRHPS! there were people in all manner of costume, actors on stage performing along with the movie, dancing in the aisles and even though I was loudly and publicly declared a virgin, it was one of the best times I've had with my clothes on!
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. :)
Oh wow, I think it must have been in the late 70's -- probably 1979 or so. Had just started working at LSU and it had really caught on (midnight show, participation, the whole bit). Favorite character -- Columbia. Loved Meat Loaf's songs, too.
I played Magenta for a year at the Houston River Oaks cast. WOO!!!
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! ;D
Character....hmmmmmmm.....has to be Columbia.
Can you believe how much Tim Burton, has changed?? LOL!!!!!
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
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...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Aiacha/magenta2-1.jpg)
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.
Quote from: Elennare on March 22, 2010, 01:32:15 PM
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
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!!! :D
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... ;D
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!!! ;D :o ::)
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.
*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? ;)
Quote from: dfloyd888 on March 24, 2010, 01:05:50 AM
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...
Hmm, I'd say 81-82 time frame, I was 15-16, I remember....Doing the Time Warp! ;) ;D
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.... :D
"Participating" is much more fun than simply watching RH.
Quote from: captmarga on March 23, 2010, 04:35:26 PM
Quote from: Elennare on March 22, 2010, 01:32:15 PM
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!")
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. ;D
Quote from: will paisley on March 24, 2010, 10:32:02 AM
One of the universal shout outs at a "live" movie theater performance is "The audience has the best lines!"...
My 'fav' shout-out is in the opening 'lip' sequence...
Film: "In the back row..." Audience: "F the back row"!
I may be a bit unusual in that I like watching the musical numbers on DVD as much as I liked the "live" experience. I fear I am a tad on the wrong side of the age curve these days for a midnight show with all the "fix'ns".
Bite your lip! Thank-you.
Shoulder twitch! Thank-you.
My mom still goes every show and she is over 50. In fact, anyone who has gone to the Minneapolis show in the past 15 years has probably seen her. She is introduced every show, (at least used to be, I haven't been in years) as Rocky Mom.
Hey Frank! Let's see that ear! Oohh, sexy!
At the late night (early morning)
Double Feature (Rocky Horror)
Picture Show....
I believe our lines were
(Where's the best place to F**K?)
In the back row (F**K THE BACK ROW)
First time I saw it was two years ago....I've seen it a billion times since. I love Columbia...I had been planning on being her for the next halloween after i saw it...but I had a fall out with my friend so it never happened...maybe some day...
Quote from: GoodyTombShoes on March 25, 2010, 05:49:24 AM
I love when you can see a shadow cast too! I've been working on a peep show...
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Best lookin' Peep I ever did see... :D
Now that is a "sweet" transvestite! ;D
ohhh, me too!
i was about 16, my mom wasnt too thrilled, but my dad loved it!!!
Frankie's my fav! i still get chills when he comes down the elevator, sexy man!" well, you got caught with a flat, how 'bout that!" i have never been to the theater, so id be a virgin too! I would love to go to the belcourt, sounds like an outing!
Quote from: Lady Catherine on March 26, 2010, 02:58:09 AM
ohhh, me too!
i was about 16, my mom wasnt too thrilled, but my dad loved it!!!
Frankie's my fav! i still get chills when he comes down the elevator, sexy man!" well, you got caught with a flat, how 'bout that!" i have never been to the theater, so id be a virgin too! I would love to go to the belcourt, sounds like an outing!
Here's the info, Lady Catherine! Both showings are at Midnight (of course!) and you can get tickets online.
http://www.belcourt.org/events?id=69318
I was already in my early twenties when I first saw it. :-[
My dear hubby let it be known I was a virgin...I had to peel a banana with nothing but my teeth, and not break or smush it. I won. ::)
The shadowcast at the theater was incredible...our Frankenfurter was HOT!!!!!
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Fav character...Frankenfurter. My fav to play...Magenta. (No pics of that)
I have about 15 years worth of acting it in different cast.
I will find some old pics and post them soon
I've never seen it in a theater. I think the first time I saw it was in '78 or '79 on a bootleg video that belonged to a guy I knew in High School (according to Wikipedia - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show), the video wasn't released in the US until 1990). I've also seen parts of it at different times on TV through the years.
Take Care,
David Baldock
we have it on video. just isn't the same as watching it in a theater.
Has anyone here ever seen The Rocky Horror Picture show? I saw some advertisements for a show around here a while back and found that today is Tim Curry's birthday, so I thought I'd get some opinions on it. Did you like it? Was it worth the ticket price? What are you overall impressions of the show?
There's a discussion already started involving that. Might get some answers there.
http://www.renaissancefestival.com/forums/index.php?topic=11140.0 (http://www.renaissancefestival.com/forums/index.php?topic=11140.0)
Went years ago and saw this show: http://rhps.punk.net - they are still performing it, so if anyone hasnt seen it and is in California, check it out!
Seen it on television, but not at the theatre - maybe a trip to the Alamo is in order.
My sister & niece saw it in Soho, NYC last year. She said there were people going in and out of the bathrooms w/suitcases getting changed into costume. THAT I would love to see.
Finally found a foto of me at RHPS
http://www.captainjakes.com/rocky/cast01.jpg (http://www.captainjakes.com/rocky/cast01.jpg)
That's me in the back row ("F*ck the back row!") on the left in the Robin Hood hat I got from Scarborough Faire
Awesome!!!
First saw the movie on video back in high school. Knew people that were on cast, but never actually got to a theater to see it :(
I did, however, see the off-broadway musical based on the theater experience. Went with my mom- learned things about her I really didn't need to know LOL
There's a movie theater near me that plays Rocky every Saturday at midnight. Been playing there for lord knows how long. My husband used to know every single line. Last year when they did a Rocky play at the local community college, he was one of the only few yelling out lines, much to the laughter of the people around us.
I heard about an event coming this October I think, in Dallas, or a neighboring city. Where it was going to be...I dont rmember if it will be the movie or live. But I heard this event was somehow Alice In Wonderland themed. I really hope someone here knows more about this...anybody? If this is true I'm going to do a columbia/mad hatter mashup...
I LOVE the idea of a Columbia/ Mad Hatter mashup! DEFINITELY show us pics if you end up doing it!
If I had money to spare I'd get on it now...I will probably post sketches tho...theres some of it I can get started on cuz its with scraps...I'm hoping the rest can be clearance fabric...it should all be small pieces, the largest being the sleeves...
I'm involved in the Shadow Cast in Hamilton, Ontario. We only do showings once a year, around Halloween. I've played Trixie/The Lips/Transylvanians, and one year I was Columbia because the person who was SUPPOSED to play her didn't show up. My costume wasn't right (I was in pretty much a floor show costume) but the audience donated hats and jackets and things so I sort of had a costume. Very cool.