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PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:26 am 
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The Rocky Horror Show was born at the Royal Court's tiny Theatre Upstairs on June 16, 1973, and went on to become an international stage smash hit and a major motion picture. Now, Rocky Horror Company and The Royal Court Theatre present this historic program, Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Tribute Show. In 2006, Richard O'Brien, who wrote the book, music and lyrics, rewrote the narration for the show and a cast of performers was put together from previous stars of the show and other amazing performers, including Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell and Rayner Bourton on stage for the first time in 33 years, back where it all began. They are joined by one of the best Franks ever, Anthony Head, as well as original Transylvanians from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. This is a must-have DVD for all Rocky Horror fans!

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:31 am 
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There's a detailed page about the event on the Timewarp UK site, but they seem to be down at the moment so this is copied from the Google cache:

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So then a little history for you all. The Rocky Horror Show was born at the Royal Court's tiny Theatre Upstairs on Saturday, 16th June 1973. It was raining.

Fast forward to 2005 and the Royal Court Theatre conduct a poll to find the People's Choice of favourite shows to celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2006. Up against many famous plays such as Look Back in Anger Rocky romps home as the clear winner, much to the delight as surprise of fans as there is a promise of the winner being performed once more at the Royal Court.

Rocky Horror Company and The Royal Court Theatre decide that instead of the normal show, the evening of 3rd May 2006 will be a special concert style event with tickets sold at a premium in aid of Amnesty International UK and the Royal Court Theatre. Richard rewrites the narration for the show and a cast of performers is put together from previous stars of the show and other amazing performers.

The Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs holds only around 60, so the show is presented in the main theatre, seating around 370. Tickets go on sale priced at £50, £100, £200 and £350 each. Rocky Horror Company also feels that the fans should have an opportunity to be at the show and run a competition exclusively here on timewarp.org.uk for twenty one fans to win a ticket to the night for the cost of a text entry. There are some happy people when the winners are announced to say the least. The event sells out a couple of days before the performance. Tickets are reported as being sold on-line for up to £800 each. Richard mentions in a tv interview that anyone making a profit on the ticket should donate at least half to Amnesty International. On the night itself some people unable to get tickets manage to sit in the bar area and watch the video feed.

Then things get really good when the cast is announced. Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell and Rayner Bourton on stage for the first time in 33 years, back where it all began.

They are joined by one of the best Frank's ever Anthony Head as well as original transylvanian's from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Christopher Biggins and doing the final Time Warp Perry Bedden. Sharing the role of Frank N Furter was Michael Ball and Toyah Wilcox, Kraig Thornber, Ade Edmondson, Sophie Lawrence, Robin Cousins, Steve Pemberton, Tony Slattery, Jamie Theakston, Amy Field, Gary Amers, Ben Richards, Joanne Farrell, Stephen Gately and Julian Littman made up the rest of the cast.

Michael White, original producer of the show was in the audience, along with Sue Blane and Kimi Wong on the night.

Directed by Christopher Luscombe, the concert itself was a unique Rocky experience. Amongst the fans there had been a lot of discussion whether to dress in costume or not, Rocky Company were more than happy for people to wear what they wanted, there were quite a few of us travelling straight from work though. On the night there was a nice mix of costumes and our version of smart clothes to compliment the suits and posh frocks. One thing that all the fans had agreed on was we wouldn't be shouting out the normal audience participation, the chance to hear Rocky performed at the Royal Court was enough and to be honest as the narration was making up for all the action between songs, it wouldn't have worked anyway. Everyone danced the Time Warp of course!

The performers were mostly dressed in smart black clothes, with the odd Jacket or prop and minimal make up. The band were on stage with the performers and the place rocked!

The night was to say the least one of the best Rocky events anyone can remember, when else are you going to see four of the original cast back where it all began? We have a little section for those that were there on the night in the audience to prove the fact to the world. Check out the I was there and I can prove it! section to see how to add your name to the list. Sitting in the bar doesn't count by the way.

Stephanie and I also got to attend the aftershow party and everyone we spoke to there was thrilled they had been a part of this piece of Rocky Horror history. Perry Bedden took lots of backstage images and you can see them here or via the gallery link above. We also gained written permission to use some images from the performance itself that appeared in the press the next day. You can also buy prints of the images from the picture agency by following the links on that page. We'd love you to send us your images of the night for the Fans Gallerypage. Email them to us via this link. Add details of who is in the images if possible.

The event was filmed with five cameras. At the moment, this is intended just as an archive recording of this historic event, but...... the moment we hear any different we will of course post news on the site. There are weird legal restrictions on the Rocky Horror Show being released on video, tied into Fox's rights on RHPS, but strictly speaking this was not the show, it was a concert with some narration, so there may be some hope. One nice side effect of the recording was some of the winners were moved to even better seats to make way for the static cameras

There was a very nice brochure produced for the night, with some original images from 1973. We've added full details of this to the Collectors Corner section of the site and we have news on how you can still buy a copy (still valid as of Saturday, April 14th, 2007).

A big thank to Richard, Pat, Nell, Tony, Adrian, and all the performers, to the backstage crew, to the Royal Court and to Christopher, Meryl and all of Rocky Horror Company, to Shaun and Liz, and of course all the fans that helped make it one of the best ever Rocky Horror events we've been to.


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Joanne Weir sent us this report on who played which role in the show.

Here's a quick rundown of the actual show....It was basically all of the songs, with narrators filling in the story in between them. No-one was in costume, all were dressed in black formalwear, except for the 2 Franks who wore make up & heels with their outfits.

Introduction - Richard O'Brien and he introduced Michael White, original producer of the show who was in the audience.
Narrators - Christopher Biggins (RHPS), Rayner Bourton (Rocky 1973), Robin Cousins (Frank 1995), Steve Pemberton, Tony Slattery & Jamie Theakston
Science Fiction - Patricia Quinn
Dammit Janet - Ade Edmondson (Brad 1990) as Brad, & Sophie Lawrence (Janet 1994) as Janet
There's a Light (Over at The Frankenstein Place) - Ade Edmondson as Brad, Sophie Lawrence as Janet & Kraig Thornber (Riff Raff 1994) as Riff Raff
The Timewarp - Toyah Wilcox as Magenta, Kraig Thornber as Riff Raff & Amy Field as Columbia
Sweet Transvestite - Anthony Head (Frank 1991 & 1995) as Frank
The Sword of Damocles - Gary Amers as Rocky
I Can Make You a Man - Anthony Head as Frank
Hot Patootie - Ben Richards as Eddie
I Can Make You a Man (Reprise) - Anthony Head as Frank
Touch - A Touch Me - Joanne Farrell (Janet 1995) as Janet
Once in a While - Stephen Gately as Brad
Eddie's Teddy - Anthony Head as Frank, Amy Field as Columbia & Julian Littman as Dr Scott
Dammit Janet - Anthony Head as Frank, Joanne Farrell as Janet & Toyah Wilcox as Magenta
Floorshow - Michael Ball as Frank, Joanne Farrell as Janet, Ade Edmondson as Brad, Gary Amers as Rocky & Amy Field as Columbia
I'm Going Home - Michael Ball as Frank
Superheroes - Joanne Farrell as Janet & Ade Edmondson as Brad
Science Fiction (Reprise) - Patricia Quinn
Encore - Timewarp - Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn & Little Nell

Sue Blane, Perry Beden was also there (RHPS), Kimi Wong (RHPS) was around too, Mel Smith, Richard Wilson & Jennifer Saunders were also there. Christopher Luscombe, director of the current UK tour of Rocky Horror also directed this show.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:33 am 
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I'm rather surprised they were able to get approval for this to be released. 20th Century Fox and Lou Adler have historically stymied all attempts at having any performance of The Rocky Horror Show available on video or DVD. Any recording you see of the stage show will be a bootleg. Apparently this tribute didn't really count, since it wasn't actually a staging of the play but more a tribute concert.

P.S. I saw Anthony Head perform live at the 25th Anniversary convention in Las Vegas, for the VH1 Celebrity Karaoke taping. He really is a fantastic Frank-N-Furter. The show's organizers were a bit bewildered when Anthony Head got such a huge audience response, compared to the rest of the "stars" that evening. Audience chants of "Give us Head!", "We want Head!", and "More Head!" were the norm. 8)

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Release date looks to be October 14th:
http://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Horror-Trib ... 001FZQOQI/

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