I was talking about the brief resurgence of Rocky at the Northwest in Summer and Fall 2001, Lee. Cast name was 'Satanic Mechanics'. If you look at the
Road Trip Photos section of the site, you'll see a few photo galleries there for them. Roy Thomas was actually a part of this group, and played Brad I think.
I got along well with them initially and was very happy to see RHPS going in San Antonio again, but eventually got into it with their cast leader because I kept suggesting that they should recruit more people to perform and keep things going on a weekly basis (instead of trying to get the theater to show the movie less). Their cast leader in turn suggested that I didn't know what the hell I was talking about because he'd seen Rocky in Austin and it sucked. *shrug*
It was really one of the oddest Rocky casts I've ever seen. Fairly tight knit group of club kids who didn't really want other people "intruding" for the most part. My sister did end up performing as Janet with them for awhile, though. One of the more amusing stories was when they invited the homeless (at the time) cast of
Beautiful Creatures in Houston to road trip into San Antonio and do a show at the Northwest. I heard about this and drove down along with the usual suspects like James and Joanna.
Once we got there we discovered that there was not one single member of the San Antonio cast at the theater. Literally. The Beautiful Creatures were a couple of cast members short of a full crew, but they had thought they'd be able to get a local San Antonio person or two to fill in. No such luck, since apparently when the San Antonio cast invited Beautiful Creatures over to perform there the cast said "Woohoo! Night off! Let's go clubbing that night!". So James ended up getting thrown in for Brad and I ended up playing Riff. Roy Thomas was the one and only member of the San Antonio cast who showed up at all that night, and he was there for about fifteen minutes in the middle of the show. Kinda surreal.
P.S. Thanks for keeping us updated, Lee! I promised Joanna I'd call and let her know if and when there was an update.