CAPFILM: THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
CAPFILM: THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
CAPFILM: THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Member Presale 8/18 at 10am
Public Onsale 8/21 at 10am
Let’s do the Time Warp Again!
The Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to the historic Capitol Theatre and we want you there! We’re not ready to reveal all just yet, but we have lots of fun planned, like photo ops, trivia, initiating Rocky Virgins, costume contest, prop bags (included with all tickets!) and More! More! More! For now, we will have to leave you in antici…pation.
Part campy musical, part horror film, the movie details the travails of a squeaky clean couple stranded at a creepy castle where the inhabitants sing and dance through a bacchanalian romp of murder, bisexuality and cannibalism. The Madcap, musical mayhem begins when the rain-soaked Brad and Janet take refuge in the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist from outer space who is about to unveil his greatest creation! Join Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon and rock star Meat Loaf in the most popular cult classic of all time.
Host TJ CREEDON would like, if he may, to take you on a strange journey. It’ll be a night out (or was it a Days Inn?) you are going to remember for a very long time…
As Central PA native, TJ has performed on many stages in the area as a host, an actor, a singer and a personality hire, and is a regular Frankie fan. You may have seen him onstage in The Rocky Horror Show as Brad or in The Rocky Horror Show as Eddie or in The Rocky Horror Show as an Eddie again. He also recently starred in Open Stage’s production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Follow along @teejcreed. Now let’s do the Time Warp again!
More about THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
The American premiere of The Rocky Horror Picture Show was at the Westwood Theater in Los Angeles, in late September of 1975. Even though it played in a few test market cities, the film was considered a failure, so it did not get a wide release and was shelved.
Then, on April Fools’ Day, 1976, Tim Deegan, a young advertising executive at 20th Century Fox, persuaded Bill Quigley of the Walter Reade Organization to replace the midnight show at the Waverly Theater with THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. The Waverly had already been a mecca for midnight movies and had had two very successful runs, of El Topo and Night of The Living Dead.
The manager of the Waverly, Denise Borden, was fascinated with the film and she began her own personal hype campaign. She would play the record album of the RHPS sound track before the showing of the film to warm up the audience, and a party atmosphere was generated as a result. The audiences naturally began to respond, by booing the villain and cheering the heroes. This spawned a whole group of regulars who became the pioneers of audience participation including Bill O’Brien, the first person to dress as Dr. Frank-N-Furter; Lori Davis, who wrote the Ten Commandments of ROCKY HORROR; and Louis Farese, a kindergarten teacher from Staten Island, who felt compelled to speak to the screen. He is credited as the first person to yell lines at the movie. Then, in late September, a few people came dressed as characters from the movie.
Bill O’Brien and a few of the regulars began to lip-sync the record that is played before the movie in front of the audience, which developed into a mini-floor show before the movie. This was the birth of the “shadow cast.”
