The Rocky Horror Picture Show will celebrate its 49th anniversary this fall with three interactive touring productions of the film that will play over 50 cities throughout the United States and Canada.
Barry Bostwick, Nell Campbell, and Patricia Quinn, who played, respectively, Brad Majors, Columbia, and Magenta in the cult classic, will each head one of the tours, which will include a local Shadow Cast performing scenes from the film live while the unedited motion picture is shown on screen.
The Bostwick company will launch September 28 at the Blue Lake Casino in Blue Lake, California; the Campbell tour will begin October 5 at the Seneca Casino in Niagara Falls, New York; and the Quinn production will kick off October 3 at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Audiences in select cities will also be able to view the traveling museum, which includes artifacts and costumes from the film, and participate in a costume contest judged by one of the three stars.
In a statement Bostwick said, “Rocky has changed lives, not just ours, and had a profound effect on how we accept our differences in this world. We were fitted for our corsets and high heels and enthusiastically started singing songs that have endured for all these years. And 'dammit Janet'! I have made nerds cool.”
Quinn added, “50 years ago, I auditioned for the Rocky Horror Show at the 60-seat Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London. I asked my agent, 'What’s it about?' He replied, 'Something to do with a circus.' He wasn’t wrong. I’ve been in this circus ever since! ‘Cirque Du Rocky Horror’ I’m lucky! We’re all lucky!! Don’t dream it, be it.”
Campbell stated, “I never would have thought all these years later we’d be touring our little ole film. I’m so thrilled to get back on the road and to meet several generations of fans. Looking forward to a lot of fun just like it always was!”
Written and created by Richard O’Brien, The Rocky Horror Show bowed in London in 1973. It subsequently played Broadway's Belasco Theatre March 10-April 5, 1975, with a cast led by Tim Curry, Jamie Donnelly, and Meat Loaf. The 1975 film, titled The Rocky Horror Picture Show, also cast Curry as Frank-N-Furter opposite Susan Sarandon's Janet Weiss and Bostwick's Brad Majors. The Tony-nominated 2000 revival at New York's Circle in the Square Theatre boasted a cast that included Dick Cavett, Lea DeLaria, Jarrod Emick, Tom Hewitt, Joan Jett, Alice Ripley, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Raúl Esparza, Sebastian LaCause, and Kevin Cahoon.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again, a remake of the cult classic, was broadcast on Fox in October 2020 featuring Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Tim Curry as Criminologist Narrator, Victoria Justice as Janet Weiss, Ryan McCartan as Brad Majors, Reeve Carney as Riff Raff, Christina Milian as Magenta, Annaleigh Ashford as Columbia, Adam Lambert as Eddie, Staz Nair as Rocky Horror, Ben Vereen as Dr. Everett Scott, and Ivy Levan as Usherette.
The musical tells the story of Brad and his fiancée Janet, two squeaky clean college kids who meet Dr. Frank ’N’ Furter, an extra-terrestrial mad scientist from the galaxy of Transylvania where people really like to party.
The touring productions are produced by Scott Stander and The Stander Group.
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