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8 unusual facts about The Rocky Horror Show


Carter Brown

In the early 1980s, Yates and Richard O'Brien of The Rocky Horror Show fame wrote a musical of The Stripper, described in classic Carter Brown terminology as ‘the girl who says it all from the neck down’.

Gerard Kelly

Gerard played "The Narrator" in The Rocky Horror Show in Edinburgh and Aberdeen from 21 June to 3 July 2010.

Jimmy and the Boys

Jimmy and the Boys briefly disbanded in January 1982 and Jones moved to the theatre stage, playing the dual roles of Eddie and Dr. Scott in the Australian revival of The Rocky Horror Show.

Jo Gibb

Some of her other theatre work includes Belle on Disney's Beauty and the Beast, at the Dominion Theatre, London; Columbia in the national tour of The Rocky Horror Show; and Pearl, in the final cast of Starlight Express at the Apollo Victoria Theatre.

She also played Belle in the UK Productions Tour of Beauty and the Beast and appeared as Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show.

Richard Meek

Richard joined the UK tour of The Rocky Horror Show on 27 January 2007 in Nottingham, playing the role of Brad Majors.

Tony Britten

He spent the first few years of his career in theatre as a musical director, including working for Cameron Mackintosh as music supervisor on many shows including Godspell, The Rocky Horror Show and Oliver!.

World Party

After a stint as musical director of a West End performance of The Rocky Horror Show, Wallinger joined a funk band dubbed "The Out", before signing on with Mike Scott's Waterboys in 1984 to record the album A Pagan Place.


David Guido Pietroni

More than 170 shows, a world preview and thirty national first performances, among which the performances of the musical Cats in the original edition by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Italian debuts of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Lorin Maazel and co-produced by the Toscanini Symphonic Orchestra, and Peter Stein's interpretation of Faust.

Graham Jarvis

Jarvis acted in the role of Elliot Sinclair in the Journeyman Project trio of video games and was also the narrator in the first American production of The Rocky Horror Show at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, playing alongside Meat Loaf and Tim Curry.

Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul

Originally this song was intended for its author, Richard O'Brien, to sing in the original stage production, though director Jim Sharman convinced O'Brien to portray the character of Riff Raff instead of Eddie.

Paul Jabara

He took over the role of Frank-N-Furter in the Los Angeles Production of The Rocky Horror Show when Tim Curry left the production to film the movie version in England.

Stage 5 Rep

The produced acclaimed productions of Neil Simon's "The Good Doctor", "The Rocky Horror Show", "Our Town", "The Cradle Will Rock",


see also

Band Candy

Anthony Head actually starred in a production of The Rocky Horror Show.

Dammit

"Dammit Janet", a song from The Rocky Horror Show, a 1973 British stage musical by Richard O'Brien