"Janet, Brad, Rocky, Ugh!"
I visited some old friends on Thursday night: The Salt Lake City cast of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," performing onstage at the Tower Theatre during the Halloween weekend screening of the midnight-movie classic.
I used to be a regular, a backup emcee to the incomparable Susan Steffee, who's marking her 21st year performing. I went back last year for Susan's 20th anniversary, and surprised the gang with a cameo. Here are a few snapshots of the pre-show ritual:
This is Tony, the pre-show emcee (and our Frank N. Furter), warming up the crowd.
More than half the theater was filled by "virgins" - people who have never experienced "Rocky Horror" in a theater. Here they are corralled to the front of the theater, about to get what's coming to them. (The ones who got up onstage had the real embarrassment - something involving Twizzlers that I don't ever need to see again.)
This is what happens when you sit in the front row - you get dragooned into helping with the pre-show cheers. "Give me a J! Give me an A! Give me an N! Give me an E! Give me a T!" and so on.
Susan was in fine form Thursday night, updating her classic material and keeping the audience (and me) laughing.
The Tower screens "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" again Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m. and midnight. Tickets are $10 at the Tower box office. Needless to say, if you are easily offended, this is not the place for you.
I used to be a regular, a backup emcee to the incomparable Susan Steffee, who's marking her 21st year performing. I went back last year for Susan's 20th anniversary, and surprised the gang with a cameo. Here are a few snapshots of the pre-show ritual:
This is Tony, the pre-show emcee (and our Frank N. Furter), warming up the crowd.
More than half the theater was filled by "virgins" - people who have never experienced "Rocky Horror" in a theater. Here they are corralled to the front of the theater, about to get what's coming to them. (The ones who got up onstage had the real embarrassment - something involving Twizzlers that I don't ever need to see again.)
This is what happens when you sit in the front row - you get dragooned into helping with the pre-show cheers. "Give me a J! Give me an A! Give me an N! Give me an E! Give me a T!" and so on.
Susan was in fine form Thursday night, updating her classic material and keeping the audience (and me) laughing.
The Tower screens "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" again Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m. and midnight. Tickets are $10 at the Tower box office. Needless to say, if you are easily offended, this is not the place for you.
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