Upcoming Event: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Christina Cutler
Issue date: 3/1/10 Section: News
The Rocky Horror culture is one that is known to many of us who claimed the high school theater as our home at some point. Rocky Horror has been gaining popularity over the years, usually debuting with shadowcasts on Devil's Night or Halloween, featuring scantily-clad, cross-dressing, and eccentric cast members. This Valentine's Day weekend, there will be five showings with a shadow cast that will include several KU students. The show is actually being put on by the Buckham Alley Theatre, a local theater troupe.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was created in 1975 to parody B-movie horror films and science fiction scenes. The movie features Tim Curry in drag, as a mad scientist/creature of another planet, with a small following of others from his planet (Transsexual, in the galaxy of Transylvania.) It focuses on a newly engaged couple, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who unfortunately get a flat tire and have to go to the castle of Dr. Frank N. Furter, who is celebrating his success in making the creature he names Rocky Horror. The movie was mostly known as a cult film until recently when it became more popular in the mainstream. It is still most frequently shown as a midnight movie, and usually has audience participation, including acting out the movie in front of the screen (a shadow cast), calling lines out to the characters and throwing things at the screen.
You have never seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show? Don't be afraid! You are what we like to call a "virgin." Often, before a major showing of RHPS, various "virgin games" will be played to help everyone relax and to start getting warmed up to participate. As most RHPS virgins don't know any of the call-backs or when to throw that rice at the screen or shoot the cast with squirt guns, you can go to www.rockyhorror.htmlplanet.com for a full script and all of the appropriate call-outs and actions for the showing.
All showings will be in McKinnon Theater. Showings will be Friday and Saturday at 8pm and midnight, and Sunday at 7pm. Tickets are $5 for general admission, and $10 for special admission (which includes a props bag with everything you need to throw at the cast.)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was created in 1975 to parody B-movie horror films and science fiction scenes. The movie features Tim Curry in drag, as a mad scientist/creature of another planet, with a small following of others from his planet (Transsexual, in the galaxy of Transylvania.) It focuses on a newly engaged couple, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who unfortunately get a flat tire and have to go to the castle of Dr. Frank N. Furter, who is celebrating his success in making the creature he names Rocky Horror. The movie was mostly known as a cult film until recently when it became more popular in the mainstream. It is still most frequently shown as a midnight movie, and usually has audience participation, including acting out the movie in front of the screen (a shadow cast), calling lines out to the characters and throwing things at the screen.
You have never seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show? Don't be afraid! You are what we like to call a "virgin." Often, before a major showing of RHPS, various "virgin games" will be played to help everyone relax and to start getting warmed up to participate. As most RHPS virgins don't know any of the call-backs or when to throw that rice at the screen or shoot the cast with squirt guns, you can go to www.rockyhorror.htmlplanet.com for a full script and all of the appropriate call-outs and actions for the showing.
All showings will be in McKinnon Theater. Showings will be Friday and Saturday at 8pm and midnight, and Sunday at 7pm. Tickets are $5 for general admission, and $10 for special admission (which includes a props bag with everything you need to throw at the cast.)
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