The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running British horror comedy stage musical, which opened in London on 19 June 1973. It was written by English-born New Zealander Richard O’Brien, and developed by O'Brien in collaboration with Australian theater director Jim Sharman.
The play was adapted as the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Show)
From the show....
This show tells the story of two clean cut kids, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who run into car trouble and seek help at the site of light down the road. Little do they know it's coming from the place where Dr. Frank N Furter is in the midst of his maniacal experiments. The play is a rock musical, a spoof of science fiction movies, and a bizarre story of seduction and sexual confusion..(for some)
Full plot can be found at http://rockyhorrorshow.net/story.htm
From the show....
From the movie...
I saw the movie recently on cable TV, with captions for the first time. There was one line in the long series of musical numbers at the end that I never could understand, and I finally saw the words Janet is singing: "God Bless Lily St. Cyr". I had my computer on, so I Googled it. She was a famous stripper from the 1940's to 1950's who died in 1999.
ReplyDeleteHere she is showing off her famous legs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQDut1P6nsE