Queerios!

QUEERIOS is the performing cast of the Austin Rocky Horror Picture Show, presented at the Alamo Drafthouse Village theater EVERY SATURDAY AT MIDNIGHT. If you have not yet experienced Rocky Horror in a theater (VIRGIN!) and are wondering what to expect from this audience participation phenomenon, take a look at this guide for first timers. For more details about attending our show, please see the Theater Info page. Be sure to register at the discussion forums and chat with us also. We are ALWAYS looking for new cast members, so don't be shy. We'll see you at the show!

We've got two great special shows coming up soon in February. First will be Valentine's Day Fetish Night on February 14th. Latex, bondage gear, nurse uniforms, Catholic school girls, and more will all be involved. Audience members are encouraged to join in the fun as well. It sounds like a great Valentine's Day date to me! Then just a week later is Mardi Gras on February 21st. The purple, green, gold, beads, masks, and feathers will be everywhere. Join in the festivities, and we'll see you there!

What an experience Halloween week was! We had two sold out shows at the Drafthouse, plus a road show in Waco. Halloween night was actually sold out almost 24 hours in advance! The show in Waco at the Hippodrome Theatre was on a whole different level though. Final stats were 536 tickets sold (they had to open up balcony seating!) and over 300 prop bags sold. Performance photos of this blowout show have just been posted: http://www.austinrocky.org/photos/10302008-Waco/.

We also have press clippings, believe it or not! The Waco Tribune-Herald interviewed me for a how-to article published the day of the show up there: Waco fans of the cult favorite 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' get to do Time Warp again. Blogger Wendy Gragg talked about it both before (Get ur freak on) and after (The freaks came out at night), as did entertainment editor Carl Hoover (Wild night at Hippodrome's "Rocky Horror"). The Tribune-Herald also sent both a photographer and videographer to the show, who concentrated on local Waco audience members in a photo gallery and video. This level of local newspaper support was something we've never experienced before. We're all hoping that we get to do this again with them next year!

Halloween is almost upon us! If you haven't yet bought your tickets for the weekend's shows, I'd do it now! Before the madness begins though with our three performances in two cities in three days, I'd like to highlight the last few sets of photo galleries that have gone up: August 30th, September 13th (Lingerie Night), September 20th, October 4th, and October 18th. Lingerie Night in particular was just a huge blowout of a show, with a sold out audience in the Drafthouse's largest theatre and a bunch of people participating in the costume contest. Oh, and our cast member's outfits were fabulous too...:-) Miss Tre took it as a personal challenge apparently, appearing in four entirely different costumes for her first night as Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

The Alamo Drafthouse has commissioned a poster set to promote our Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings. The first poster, featuring Riff & Magenta, is now available from MondoTees.com. The artwork is by Ken Taylor in Australia, who apparently does a lot of work for bands like NIN, Slayer, etc. This poster is intended to be the first in a set of four, with other characters to follow. Posters are four color silkscreen prints in metallic ink on heavy stock art paper, and are individually numbered. If you look closely at the bottom you can just make out where it says "Shadow cast performed by Queerios!". Hey, that's us! :-)

Our October special shows schedule is packed this year, culminating in a three day orgy of festivities around Halloween:

• Saturday, October 11th @ Midnight - Pirate Night
• Thursday, October 30th @ 10:00 pm - ROAD SHOW at the Hippodrome Theatre in Waco
• Friday, October 31st @ Midnight - Halloween Night
• Saturday, November 1st @ Midnight - Halloween Weekend

All of these shows will include audience costume contests - so dress up, dress down, wear your Halloween costume, put on your favorite lingerie, or whatever else strikes your fancy!

Mostly just catching up with some of the photo galleries that have been posted in recent months: June 28th, July 5th, July 12th, July 26th, and August 2nd. The July 5th and August 2nd galleries both include photos from a new perspective for the latter part of the show, as I've taken to wheeling around as a documentarian Dr. Scott with camera in tow.

Additionally, a couple of older special shows had photo galleries added. SNL Night 2007 featured many characters from Saturday Night Live skits, from The Church Lady to Toonces the Driving Cat. Beach Night Rookie Horror 2002 took place back at our old home, the Wells Branch Discount Cinema. It also happened to be the very first night my wife (and current cast director) Raini McHorse ever performed. Enjoy!