Rocky Horror

[rahirah]

My problems with this production can be summed up in three words: Rocky's wearing boxers.

Also I think it would have worked better if they'd cast a woman as Rocky, too. And the audience framing device just... isn't working.

Comments

[lynnenne]

Yeah, I watched the first act and couldn't stick with it. Maybe it's the bright colours and stage lighting; maybe it's the boxers; or maybe just the passage of time. Rocky Horror was so subversive when it first debuted, but this production felt oddly quaint and almost wholesome.

[rahirah]

One review said something like "If you're putting on a version of Rocky Horror that can be shown on prime time network TV, you're not putting on Rocky Horror." :/

[rahirah]

For me the boxers were just the embodiment of the odd...well... prudishness of the whole thing. In a movie about sexual and gender role transgression, let's make sure the kids don't see the outline of a guy's pee-pee!

[snogged]

I missed it...but I'm kinda okay with that.

[rahirah]

It wasn't a total waste of two hours, but yeah, you didn't miss much.

[manoah]

We watched the original on Sunday night in preparation for this. I kept watching for/looking at the differences and it was...lacking. Although Tim Curry getting off a few notes of music at the end...*wipes a tear*

Let's just call it a tribute and be done, yeah?

[rahirah]

Yah. I didn't realize Curry had had a stroke. :(

[brunettepet]

Reading everyone's reactions makes me want to erase it off the DVR without a glance.

[rahirah]

You won't miss a lot if you do. :P