Conference bookie::movies

    Wow!!!!!!!!,
    
    
           about four years ago I watched the "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
    via video I think mainly because a friend had spoke so highly of the
    film. I had a hard time getting into the show, and didn't like it at
    all, I found it really weird.
    
          I think I was expecting something completely different, therefore
    to me it wa a complete let down.
    
    

    I've got it on tape, but have only watched it once on the tube.  Small
    screen & no audience just dosn't cut it; if you want to see this for
    the first time (Virgin!) do yourself a flavor and DON'T find the tape. 
    Find someone to go with, preferrable someone with a good supply of
    toilet paper, rice, newspapers...

    One of the movie cast, Richard O'Brien, is the author of the original
    stage play in London.
    
    I have seen the stage play with Gary Glitter playing Frank N. Furter,
    what a gas that night was.....
    
    I have seen the movie (17 times) at midnight showings - definitely
    needs audience participation for it to be fun.
    
    cheers
    
    ..klaas..
    (takin' a step to the right....)
    

>    One of the movie cast, Richard O'Brien, is the author of the original
>    stage play in London.
      
    He plays the butler, Riff Raff...
    
    Graham.

    
    
    I actually got to see the stage play (London, 1974).  I went on a
    whim with no prior knowledge of plot, though I did have a clue that
    it would be unusual based on the attire of some members of the audience
    (lots of glitter and sparkle).
    
    The beginning of the show seemed relatively mundane until the first
    "appearance" of the good Doctor.  There was a ramp extending from the
    stage out into the audience.  At the critical moment a spotlight
    kicked in and there, immediately to port, was Tim Curry lovingly clad
    in black mesh tights standing in a cascade of light and glitter.
    
    Wow....
    
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    I'm envious!!!!! Lucky you!!!! :^)
    
    I absolutely love this movie and especially the good Dr.! ;-)
    
    
    			Natalie

>> It makes its world TV premiere on the Fox network Oct. 25 -- for the
>> first time on TV, according to Fox.

Been on TV in Britain several times...

Scott

>>> It makes its world TV premiere on the Fox network Oct. 25 -- for the
>>> first time on TV, according to Fox.

> Been on TV in Britain several times...

    Twice if memory serves me right. Strange that we beat them to the TV
    Premier. The video was banned for years in the UK and was only released
    either 2 or 3 years ago...
    
    Graham.

True, you have to see this for the first time at a midnight showing in a movie
house - the sleazier the better.

I lost my 'virginity' at a midnight showing in Thousand Oaks Ca. in 1980.
I friend and I from the UK were travelling the States and a girl we met
insisted that we had to be initiated. Amazing.

We went along with no idea what to expect and were just blown away by the
audience participation. All the rice, the water-sprays, newspapers, toast, the
participants in front of the screen (question - who decides who's going to
'perform' given that there are so many dressed for the part - are there
spontaneous auditions ???). It was all a blast.


T.

    
    Are there any midnight showings going on here in the NH area???  For
    Saturday nights???????

    I have the video and love it, but have never seen it on the big
    screen... and am DYING to!  The other secretary wants to see it too,
    and has never seen it.. I will be loaning her my tape, but would rather
    introduce her to the good Dr. and his co-horts, bigger than life!

    M-L

    Any New England-area midnight showings that still allow all the
    audience madness this film is renowned for??  While this continues
    to show weekends in Cambridge in Harvard Sq., a bottle-throwing
    incident has stopped ALL OBJECTS (rice, toast, cards, etc.) from
    being used in conjunction with the film  8^(

    FWIW, FOX is playing this tonight at 8:00. (at least in the New England
    area they are)
    
    Holly

    Good question - I'd be very interested too.
    
    I saw this Saturday night at a party for the first time all the way
    through.....some of the party goers knew the "audience participation"
    dialogue but, I'd love to exprience the whole affect.
    
    Jt

    RE: Holly
    
    Yeah but its not the same - I heard they will be editing it......bad
    enough putting it on the small screen but to edit it !?!?!?!?
    
    Jt

Worse than editing it, they made it a party  movie, having stuffed
a church-hall looking "movie theatre" with your (apparently) typical
midnight viewing crowd, and intercutting the real movie with the antics
of the assembled crowd (including parallel acting on stage, under the screen).

For somebody who was interested in seeing the MOVIE, I was totally turned off
by the "experience," and didn't watch but 20 minutes off and on through the 
whole thing.

- tom]

    Re .15: Yeah, I found the "party" stuff distracting - if I'd wanted
    that I'd have gone to a live show. But I still enjoyed being able to
    see (most of) the whole movie; up 'til now all I'd seen were the
    time-warp and "sweet transvestite" segments. (I thought the ending fell
    pretty flat, but I enjoyed most of the movie. I'm mucho envious of the folks
    who got to see this on stage - it looked like that would have been the
    perfect venue for something like this, at least for me...)
    
    -b

    Count me among those who are disgusted with Fox!  I'd planned to tape
    it, forgot, tuned in at about 8:30 and couldn't *believe* the trashy
    presentation.  I'd never seen RHPS (figured it would be at the Exeter
    forever!) and would like to see the entire movie WITHOUT poorly-
    video'ed partygoer AMATEURS, half of whom not only couldn't lip synch
    but apparently didn't even know the words.  And what they did show of
    the movie was edited??  Bah humbug!
    
    Apparently on 10/30 at 11:00pm Fox (ch. 25 in Boston, anyway) is showing 
    it again.  Maybe if enough of us call and complain, they'll run the
    movie and *not* their no-talent wanna-be's....
    
    Leslie  

    I was under the impression that the movie run last nite was to show
    what to do and when....so I'd guess they will show the movie without
    the cut aways on saturday....but what do I know....:')

    Re .18: Now there's a thought. I missed the opening credits and
    introduction; maybe it _was_ an "instructional video". ;-)
    
    -b

    Somewhere Sometime I saw a copy of the script with all the added
    actions here. Any idea where I could find it now?
    
    	Efw

    There was at least one book published that had a bunch of the audience
    participation lines in it and also an album.  I don't know, though, if
    anyone can claim to have "all the added actions"; I've seen it in a
    couple of different cities and every audience has it's own set of
    comments/actions.  That's part of it's attraction, IMHO.
    
    

    The audience response lines certainly are not fixed; they change by
    location and also over time. I saw the movie five times in college in
    1979, then again around 1986. In the meantime, Star Trek III had been
    released. When the moviego tto the part where Frankenfurter talks of
    how he has discovered the secret of live, he has a line which is
    something like "I have found it. That elusive ... SPARK!" In the pause,
    a group of people chanted "Star Trek 3 the Search for -", and then
    Frankenfurter supplied what sounded like "SPOCK!" This was obviously an
    innovation.
    
    By the way, my group used to enjoy sitting in the back row, so we could
    yell "Yea, back row!" when Riff-raff sang "In the back row" in the
    opening song. We learned better when a self-appointed emcee who was
    pacing up the aisle during the opening song yelled "Where's the best
    place to get a b___ job in the Charles Cinema?" just before the crucial
    line. Touche'.
    

    Barforama. 

    
    	This isn't a movie, it's an experience.
    
    	Don't tell me you rented it and couldn't understand what the
    	big deal was!!  8^)
    
    							GTI
    

    It's nothing watching it on video.  I hated it on Video.  
    
    It used to play at the Exeter St Th. when I was in college.
    
    We used to go there often on the weekends for the midnight shows
    with all the fixin's (rice, toilet paper, newspaper, squirtguns,
    toast - the works...). 'Course we all wore civilian clothes 
    we weren't *that* much into it :-) 
    
    It was great being there, because there were so many "regulars" all
    around that knew exactly what to yell and when to yell it
    	"HEY MAGENTA... Let me hear you do your impression of a chicken
    	laughing underwater" "Waiter - there's a transvestite in my soup!"
    
    I believe it's playing at the Harvars Sq Th. now.  Not quite sure
    though, Haven't seen it for years now that I'm old, have a family
    and can't stay up that late anymore...
    
    

    Does any one know if this is playing in the Boston area this weekend?
    
    Thanks,
    Roberta

It plays at Harvard Square (10 Church Street, Cambridge) Friday and Saturday
nights at midnight.

				-- Bob

    Phone number for this theater is (617) 864-4580 (recording) or 
    864-4581 (person), and cost is $7.25.
    
    Bernard