[Musical of the Month]] The Rocky Horror Picture Show

[BFG]

A quick warning for the second musical of the month.  The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) classifies The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a 15. 

 

As such most of the songs are audio and a screen shot only (partly because I couldn't find official versions of some of the songs). 

 

 

[BFG]

For the second musical of the month I present:


The Rocky Horror Picture SHow (hereafter referred to as tRHPS) is a musical comedy/horror tribute to early sci-fi and horror B movies.  Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick.  TRHPS now has a cult following with regular releases at the cinema to which people dress up to go see.  

[On a side note, I wasn't able to find all the videos from the show so some videos are the karaoke sing along version...]

The story follows Brad Majors and Janet Weiss (recently married

) as they find themselves stranded after their car breaks down in the middle of a dark, stormy night.  Naturally the only thing to do is head towards a dark, mysterious castle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEt01nVJDus which turns out to be celebrating the Annual Transylvanian Convention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtkdo7bOmJc

We meet Dr Frank N Furter

just before he brings his creation, Rocky, to life.  During the ensuing party, Eddie (ex-delivery boy, donated part of brain to Rocky) rides out of a deep freezer on a motorbike and is killed by Frank wielding an ice-ax in a jealous rage. 

Brad and Janet are shown to seperate bedrooms and seduced seperately by Frank who poses as the other.  Janet, upset, wanders off and finds Rocky hiding from Riff Raff (one of the servants)

Frank, Brad and Riff Raff return to the lab looking for Rocky, where they discover an intruder, Dr Scott, looking for his nephew Eddie, although Rocky suspects that he's a secret goverment agent investigating UFOs.  Upon finding out that Dr Scott is Brad and Janets old high school science teacher Frank suspects them of also working for the government.  They then find Janet and Rocky hiding in the lab upsetting Brad and Frank.  

We then interlude for dinner (Eddies mutilated body), Janet runs into Rockys arms and subsequently chased by a jealous Rocky through the castle.  Frank corners Brad, Janet, Dr Scott, Rocky and Columbia in Franks lab, uses the Medusa Transducer turning them into statues and forces them to perform a live cabaret.

Riff Raff and Magenta interrupt the performance, revealing themselves and Frank to be aliens from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania. They stage a coup and announce a plan to return to their home world. In the process, they kill Columbia, Rocky and Frank, who has "failed his mission". They release Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott, then depart by lifting off in the Castle itself.

The narrator concludes that the human race is equivalent to insects crawling on the planet's surface.



 

[BridMorgan]

OMG!!  BFG...I love you!!!  *grins*

 

This has got to be one of my favorite movies of all time.  I want to go to one of the showings and bring my toast!!  Tim Curry is just soooo awesome.  I can't say enough about this musical.  Le sigh....Time Warp is probably my favorite song from this movie.

 

It's one of those musicals that you either love or hate...or secretly love.  Come on...Tim Curry in a corset?  Seriously, how good is that?  It's creepy, it's freaky, it's strange, but it's ooooh so good! 

[dapianoplay3r]

I used to dp a monthy show where people brought toast and othervprops

we isef to play the movie and act it out on stage at the same time

[Andrej]

It was my sophomore year in high school when I was first exposed to this madness. My sister was the drama club president at our school, and each spring the school put on a variety show we called The Follies. That year, one of the scenes was none other than The Time Warp. My sister brought the movie home and all but forced me to watch it... but like BriMo said, I kind of secretly liked it

 

Such a strange but interesting movie. Comical too.

[dapianoplay3r]

I met Richard obrien once

He was acting in a play I helped with

[The Bard Babe]

OMG you did?!?!?! That's awesome!!!

 

 

I loooooooooove Rocky Horror!!! It's amazing  XD   It was Tim Curry's first film wasn't it?

 

I have the radio ads on my iPod (I'm assuming they came with the album)     'If you don't go and see the Rocky Horror Picture Show, I will belt you about the mouth and mouth you about the belt'   XD

[dapianoplay3r]

It eas a lott of fun. I playeed riff abd brad (different shows lol

[The Bard Babe]

Ha ha ha, oh wow, you got to dooooo it, so jealous!

 

*wants to be in musicals*

[BFG]

So we all already know about the various tributes.  I possibly cheated a little with this one, although I've seen the fiml a couple of times I've never seen it on stage, but I'd like to sometime.

[nicana]

I really get into strange movies but I love this musical!!!! Back long long time ago when I was a teen they would show this at the local theater and everyone would dress up and get crazy. I never got a chance to go but I always wanted to. They don't show this in the theaters around here anymore but if they did I would definitely go. 

 

 

 

Oh yes Brid! Time Warp is awesome!!!!!!!

[dicetosser1]

I SOOOOOO want to see this live!!

 

Sweet Transvestite  ftw!

 

I once had to do a report at a conference to Sweet Tran  used the tune and substituted the words  wore my female friends shoes     can i just say i can do tim currys walk??  lmao

 

 

There is of course a follow up movie "shock Treatment" I have it but havent watched it. I hear its horse dung

 

 

Oh i also like Sword of Damocles too! and hot patootie!

[dapianoplay3r]

Shock treatment is ok, it should be treated as its own thing.

It loses the magic of rocky but it has catchy songs every now and then

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Not seen shock treatment but I've seen Rocky Horror three times live, the movie loads of time and listened to the soundtrack a bijillion times.

 

The live show is so much fun 

 

The cinema where I live does a showing of it every halloween, I keep meaning to go but I'm doing other halloween type things.

 

My mum is massive fan of this and therefore I've been watching Rocky Horror since I was a very young child and just really didn't understand it. My mum is still mortified I was caught singing Sweet Transvestite at nursery 

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

the beginning of my long days journey into naughty...

 

8th street playhouse nearly every Friday midnight from... I think 15 to around 20.

 

I thought it would be impossible to get permission to roam the streets of new york (no, thats not n accidental reference) at midnight but... mom was thrilled to let me off the leash to play with other children in a controlled environment.

 

mwahahahhhahahhahaha....

 

the decadence that went along with this show cannot be minimized. the effect it had on the late seventies, early 80s youth culture was tremendous.

 

the grown ups thought we were going to this movie to be silly and throw toast and talk back to the screen.

 

but we were going to be bad. to be free and young and so very twisted in New York City in the dead of night.

 

to intoxicate ourselves with every manner of absolute pleasure.

 

to learn new depths of wickedness... it's often overlooked but this is a musical about perversity and overindulgence and the wages of sin. rocky went too far... he was punished for it... but he corrupted so many others along the way.

 

I've seen it hundreds of times in every possible state of mind and for a bad movie.. well, it was a flop when it played first, musical and movie... but for such a thing it was surprisingly wonderful.

 

it was a spot on satire and homage to all horror, most notable universal horror... the old dark house through of course, Frankenstein, its main influence, and bride of... but also little moments of Dracula, the invisible man, the wolf man etc.

 

It took the downright frank sexual imagery of those films and if anything made them more innocent. ppl have trouble understanding today how absolutely ... sleazy... those original films were, thinking that when they laugh at some seemingly innocent remark or a bit of blocking that tickles our modern minds that the imagery and humor was not intended... but it surely was. and Rocky horror takes those aspects of classic horror and dumbs it down for us. makes it much easier to take in, more obvious. sillier and sweeter. gentler, happier...

 

and it brings life to a nearly dead genre with truly great songs.

 

one o f the five or six records I've bought multiple times, having ground them down to nothing with diamond needles and then made the magnetic storage mush with repeated playbacks and destroyed CDs with heat in the car,,,

 

these songs summon up so many scenes from the long ago... that confusion the first time a dozen kids in high school started doing the time warp and... the pelvic thrusts blew my mind. religious school, and half the class suddenly... bad :). very bad... good bad and maybe evil. I think the pg13 thing must keep me from filling in one blank in any detail, but... this musical was a gateway to many forms of debauchery and consumption. we just said yes.

 

my innocent roommate in college would all of a sudden start singing touch a touch a touch me I wanna be dirty, pretending not to realize what she was saying. lol... shame on her, the dear thing, bu music set her free.

 

we'd go week after week and become more and more worldly and ... y'all mostly don't remember life before the 80s hit us with some nasty reality but there was great joy in excess, and a feeling of invincibility that will never be recovered.

 

I could go on for another thousand words and never express the moment Rocky horror froze me in time and changed me and so many others but ... I have to listen to it now.

 

 

and remember how good it felt to sit in a dark theater with good friends learning to love the shameful joys of adulthood without really ever growing up.

 

I have a happy

[dicetosser1]

Ive noticed that this and Grease tend to get re popular every 15 yrs or so

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

... I've never seen grease... slightly off demographic I think.

[dapianoplay3r]

Lol rocky is popular all the time

 

Grease does do phases though

[dicetosser1]

but every now and then it suddenly explodes Dap   thats what i meant