Halloween is coming, and a popular tradition for the daring and extroverted is to go to a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show , especially one with audience participation . I knew that the cult classic film was adapted from a stage production, but I did not know how interesting the history was. And there's some bad news for some as well: there is a Hollywood remake in the works. To give you some background, Richard O'Brien , the actor, singer, and writer, created and wrote The Rocky Horror Show in 1973. The musical was intended to be a campy send-up of 1950s films that featured innocent teenagers and alien invasions, and it resonated with London audiences. The following year, the musical toured Los Angeles and New York, and O'Brien adapted his musical into a screenplay for the movie that many people know and love today. Tim Curry , showing some serious stamina, played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the film, and also played that role onstage in London, L.A., and on Broadway. O'Brien, who Rocky Horror audiences know as Riff-Raff , went on to act in other movies and hosted the popular British game show " The Crystal Maze ." What I did not realize is that he made a sequel (sort of) to the original Rocky Horror movie called Shock Treatment (1981). Much like the original Rocky Horror, Shock Treatment flopped, but did not develop a cult following as the previous film did. Shock Treatment sounds eerily prescient: the plot concerns a town th ...
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Halloween is coming, and a popular tradition for the daring and extroverted is to go to a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show , especially one with audience participation . I knew that the cult classic film was adapted from a stage production, but I did not know how interesting the history was. And there's some bad news for some as well: there is a Hollywood remake in the works. To give you some background, Richard O'Brien , the actor, singer, and writer, created and wrote The Rocky Horror Show in 1973. The musical was intended to be a campy send-up of 1950s films that featured innocent teenagers and alien invasions, and it resonated with London audiences. The following year, the musical toured Los Angeles and New York, and O'Brien adapted his musical into a screenplay for the movie that many people know and love today. Tim Curry , showing some serious stamina, played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the film, and also played that role onstage in London, L.A., and on Broadway. O'Brien, who Rocky Horror audiences know as Riff-Raff , went on to act in other movies and hosted the popular British game show " The Crystal Maze ." What I did not realize is that he made a sequel (sort of) to the original Rocky Horror movie called Shock Treatment (1981). Much like the original Rocky Horror, Shock Treatment flopped, but did not develop a cult following as the previous film did. Shock Treatment sounds eerily prescient: the plot concerns a town th ...