Wow. This is something I have to see. I'm not sure if I should be greatly amused or somewhat terrified, but I will find my way to one of these preformances, somehow.
: Basically, Blake, what we do is we play the movie "The Rocky Horror
: Picture Show" on a movie screen. The audience has all, mostly, seen
: the movie a bajillion times and have "call-backs", wherin they
: yell things at the screen and each other which adds to the humor of the
: experience (think Mystery Science Theater 3000.... on crack, times 200
: people). They also throw things appropriate for the various scenes, and
: play with assorted props. Oh yeah, and since it's a musical after all,
: people often get up and dance.
: Then we, the cast, get up on stage in costumes that mimic those of the actors
: on screen, and with props and such as well, act out the parts on stage,
: often with a variety of thematic twists. Most casts have a
: "stage" that consists of the seatless area at the front of a
: movie theater and little to no real props. We're lucky enough to have a
: cast member who owns a roundhouse stage theater, in which we hand a movie
: screen. (We also get to have parties there. You should've seen our New
: Year's bash). And another, now dead cast donated some awesome props to use
: a few years back.
: On top of all that, Rocky shows also have elaborate "pre-shows",
: featuring an M.C. to give the rules of the show (which turn out to be
: funny because there are also call-backs to the rules, and we'd recognize
: most of the regular audience members [naked], so we play along with them).
: The pre-show also features the "Virgin Sacrifice", wherein
: people who have never seen Rocky in a theater with a cast and all this
: crap, called "Virgins" (and conveniently marked with a V by
: their friends), are brought up on stage and made to do fun, funny and
: sometimes embarrassing things for the amusement of all.
: As for what the show is actually ABOUT... uhm... See, there's this innocent
: young couple named Brad and Janet, who get engaged and go to visit their
: old schoolteacher Dr. Scott, and along the way their car breaks down and
: they find a castle in the woods and ask if they can use their phone, but
: it turns out the castle is owned by an alien transvestite mad scientist
: from the planet Transsexual (in the galaxy of Transylvania) named
: Frank-N-Furter, and tonight he is unveiling his creation, a man-made man
: named Rocky Horror, who it turns out was built with half the brain of
: ex-delivery boy Eddie, who was the previous lover of Frank's groupie
: Columbia, and also the newphew of their dear Dr. Scott, who now works for
: the Buearo of Investigation of U.F.O.'s, and shows up at the castle
: looking for Eddie only to find a bunch of aliens like Franky. After a
: brief dinner, all hell breaks loose, most everybody gets turned to stone
: and reanimated in lingerie for a floor show, after which Frank's servants
: Riff Raff and Magenta, also aliens from Transsexual, kill both Frank and
: Rocky, as well as Columbia in the process, and beam the entire house back
: home, leaving Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott mostly naked in the middle of the
: woods. Oh, and uh, pretty much everybody sleeps with everybody else
: somewhere in the process.
: Our next shows are 8:00 PM and midnight, January 29th, at 150 South Street in
: San Luis Obispo, CA. Come see us and have a blast :-)
