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The Rocky Horror Picture Show began as a stage play in 1973. It opened at the Royal Court Theater Upstairs in London, England, and it was well received: well enough to interest 20th Century Fox in making a movie of it ("Not a book, a movie"). Richard Kevin O'Brien, writer and producer of the stage play, signed a deal with the "Big Wigs" at 20th Century Fox, and the film was produced for a very small budget. When released it had little publicity, and a little attendance to the regular theater showings. Not many people noticed the film until later when it was placed on a regular midnight weekend run, conducive to "cult" followings. Soon the producers at Fox realized the regular midnight showings were attracting the same people every weekend, and most theaters around the country were selling out week after week. Stranger than that, audience members were showing up to the theaters dressed as the characters in the movie, and during the movie they would shout out lines that would interact with the movie's characters and plot. People were amused, and/or shocked; if not by the lines yelled out loud, then by the audacity of the half-naked crowd. Groups of fans dressed as if to go to a "Sex Pistols" concert, acting out every movement in sync with the film's characters on screen. It was free-form performance art, a regular 3-D, multi-media, audience interactive experience. It became a movie you can see, hear, feel, taste and sometimes smell.

Today, the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" continues to be the longest-running film in America, and it is unadulterated by modern-day technology, budgets or promotional hype. The theater experience itself can seem odd to the normal theater go'er, but "don't be upset". Some of you may have to come back and see the film again, in order to hear parts of dialogue missed in the first-time frolic. If you are a "Virgin", please try to relax and enjoy the experience. It only happens once, you know, and it might feel real good. So, stand up and be sacrificed! It's all in good fun. No one should take anything here too seriously. Think of it as a fraternity or sorority ritual, except we are completely aware of the fact that we are behaving like sophomoric idiots. "Rocky" is a social outlet; a healthy display of human sexuality in an often-suppressed society. So throw rice, toast and toilet paper. Yell at the top of your lungs at inanimate objects. Strip down to your charming underclothes and run in the aisles. Please feel free to enjoy The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
 

You mean it isn't a horror film?

So you thought that The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a horror film?!

Where the *!#$% have you been? Under a rock? No--no, I get it...You were in a Time Warp.
 

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a spoof on Horror films, a rock musical with a lot of campy simulated sex scenes, a transvestite, a hunch back butler and couple of straight kids. All of this done with an almost comic book feel. Meanwhile, I must inform you that you are a VIRGIN.
 

No, there is no mistake, especially if you thought RHPS was a horror film. YOU are a definite Rocky Horror Picture Show VIRGIN. You will be known as a VIRGIN at all RHPS theaters across the US and the world, until you have seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show in a movie theater with a live audience participatory cast.
 

Stop complaining and enjoy your newly found virginity while it lasts. You and I both know that curiosity is going to get the best of you. Oh, one more thing to remember...All VIRGINS must be SACRIFICED! I'll explain later...much much later.
On with the show.

Enchant’e
- Charley Brown

 

 

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