Janet? Dr. Scott! Janet? Brad! Rocky!

[MmeLytyeer]

I'm sure you're all hip to the greatest audience partici-pation movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
So where can a gal like me go to see it down here in the Southern California area? I live in OC but am willing to drive a bit to get my Rocky fix, since it's been over a year since I've seen it in theater.
And would anyone care to go along?

Merci Beaucoup!

[innerSpaceman]

Honestly, I don't know where one could possibly catch it anymore. It was almost 3(?) years ago since we all went to the Balboa to catch it. It was like a, pun-intended, time warp for me ... as there were people in the cast who'd been performing when I first checked out the Balboa circa 1979!

Alas, the Balboa stopped showing it last year, and - tho I may be wrong - I think that chapter of pop history has finally closed.


OMG, I was heavily, seriously into Rocky from the time I was 16 in 1976 through my early 20's, 1982 or so. Since then, I've maybe gone a half dozen times. Always a trip.

Our "swanking" to the Balboa was perhaps my last RHPS hurrah, and I will cherish that memory along with the many, many others the Rocky experience has so deliciously provided me with.

:cheers:

Sorry, can't help ya tho.

[€uroMeinke]

We saw it last year at the Queen Mary, which I think is where the Long Beach Art Theater cast moved to and turned it into quite a production with opening bands and floorshow.

[flippyshark]

If you find yourself in Central Florida, it shows every weekend at the Universal Citywalk AMC theater. I haven't gone to a showing in about fifteen years, but I've had private RHPS parties in my home. (And I was Frankie in a stage production of The Rocky Horror Show about eight years ago.)

[mousepod]

Geez. I haven't seen that movie in a theater in decades. The last RHS I saw was on stage...
Might be a fun swanking, tho...

[mousepod]

oh. it's at the Nuart (http://www.sinsotheflesh.org/).

[Chernabog]

oh. it's at the Nuart (http://www.sinsotheflesh.org/).

That cast and that theatre have always sucked when I've seen it.

Midnight Insanity is the best cast. Whenever they show a televised "live" Rocky (or have anniversary events), Midnight Insanity is the cast to see.

For many years (like, at least 10) they were at the Art Theatre at 4th and Cherry in Long Beach, but last year moved to the Queen Mary in Long Beach -- there's a theatre at the back end of the ship. Parking is free if you're going to Rocky. Saturday @ Midnight, of course, but I'd get there slightly earlier than that cuz it usually fills up. There's usually some sort of local band that plays first, THEN the pre-show/virgin sacrifice/etc. and then the movie.

http://midnightinsanity.com/ is their website!

We all went last year for Morrigoon's birthday party and had a blast. I called ahead and the cast director put her picture in the program and got her up on stage :) They do sell "emergency throw bags" there if you didn't bring anything, but it's always fun to bring an OBSCENE amount of rice, isn't it? :D

I haven't been in a while (used to see Midnight Insanity starting in high school... I've been somewhere around 60-70 times but lost actual count), and Gemini Cricket would like to go too since he's a VIRGIN (yes, if you've only seen it on video and/or without a live cast, we call that "masturbation"), so let me know when you're going!!!

[Morrigoon]

OMG, yeah, it's been nearly a year... we could swank that!

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I'm up for a RHPS swanking!

[MmeLytyeer]

ahh thank you all

Fantasmic is going down in the near future for a little while, so it will probably be during that time when I can go. Since it takes up my saturday nights and i need sufficient time to get ready

[PanTheMan]

It Is quite the event on the Queen Mary I am told.

But alas, RHPS is dying out, and not what it used to be.

[innerSpaceman]

I'll say.


But perhaps that's as it should be.



Oh, it's been 31 years since I experienced the start of the Rocky phenonmenon, and rode that wave for the good part of a decade. I'm amazed it's still continuing in any form.

[cirquelover]

The last time I saw RHPS must have been in the early 80's. Have a great time, wish I could join you!

[Chernabog]

I'm pretty amazed that it is still on too (1975 was when the film was released), but it is, and it doesn't seem like casts like Midnight Insanity (the Long Beach cast, and the best) is going anywhere anytime soon.

Gemini Cricket needs to actually go -- he's only seen it on video, which we rocky horror veterans like to call "masturbation" ;)

[BarTopDancer]

GC is a virgin?!?!

Hummmm

[innerSpaceman]

Oh we should take him. I'd like to see it once at the Queen Mary. I wish it could be on some cool anniversary date, cause I'd also like it to be the last time I ever see it. Heheh.


It was released in 1975 (and my ex actually saw it on its initial release), but it flopped, and did not become an audience-participation midnight dress-up phenomenon until late '76 or early '77 at the Waverly in Greenwich Village. I started seeing it in early '77 at the Mini Cinema in Uniondale on Long Island. Less trendy than the Waverly or its replacement, the 8th Street Playhouse in Manhattan. But, frankly (no pun intended) we put on way better shows. I visted the Waverly and the 8th Street quite often, and though they were more famous, they had nothing on the Mini.

When I moved to L.A. in '78, I started seeing it at the Tiffany on the Sunset Strip ... but eventually moved to, once again, a lesser known theater with a tremendously better show, the Cove in Hermosa Beach.

I think I stopped going regularly in '83. I went to the Tiffany a few more times after that, and to the Nuart a couple of times. I had a blast just a few years ago when Cherny "sponsored" a time warp trip to see it in Long Beach ... and found it astounding (again, no pun) that some of the Long Beach cast from 20 years earlier were still performing. OMG.


Some of my fondest coming-of-age teenage and young 20's memories were tied up with the RHPS. I will cherish those always, and Rocky will forever lie dearly in my heart.

[Chernabog]

Oh we should take him. I'd like to see it once at the Queen Mary. I wish it could be on some cool anniversary date, cause I'd also like it to be the last time I ever see it. Heheh.

Actually -- I just checked at www.midnightinsanity.com and they are now performing at the Warner Grand - 478 W 6th St San Pedro, CA 90731. So no more on the Queen Mary.

Check out the website, it looks like a cool theatre!!! Kinda sad that they keep having to switch the theatres around (they had been at the Art Theatre in Long Beach at 4th and Cherry for nearly a decade, thats where we used to go in High School). But they ARE the best cast (and I have seen at least 7 different ones, for somewhere around 60-70 times total for a live cast RHPS). Hopefully the Warner Theatre will be a good fit for them!

I'd love to go and support them in the next few weeks if anyone is down to do that!! I'll bring the rice! (pounds and pounds of rice) ;) muahahhahahaAHAAhahahhaah!!

[innerSpaceman]

If Gemini Cricket is up for it, I'm in. :D

[phoebe33]

I don't post here a lot but I always check in to get a heads up on cool things going on in our area and this event really interested me. I have been a HUGE RHPS fan since I saw the movie at an 8th grade slumber party in 1992. I probably have the entire movie memorized but I have never seen it live or done the whole theater thing. Most of my friends think I am a freak for loving this so much so there has never really been anyone to go with. I would love to go if people from here were going and willing to show me the ropes a bit.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Actually -- I just checked at www.midnightinsanity.com and they are now performing at the Warner Grand - 478 W 6th St San Pedro, CA 90731. So no more on the Queen Mary.

Check out the website, it looks like a cool theatre!!!It is a beautiful art deco theater. It was designed by the same guy who designed the Pantages in Hollywood.

I'd love to go and support them in the next few weeks if anyone is down to do that!! I'll bring the rice! (pounds and pounds of rice) ;) muahahhahahaAHAAhahahhaah!!We'd love for you to come on down, but please don't bring rice or anything else to throw. The theater was very recently restored and we don't want to do anything that might ruin the work that was done.

And yes, I'm saying "we" because I recently re-joined Midnight Insanity. I was actually a founding member of that cast, way back in the Balboa days, but I retired from Rocky 12 years ago.

The last day of every month is Lingerie Night, so that's usually a good night to come, but regardless of what night you attend, you'll get a good show.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

But alas, RHPS is dying out, and not what it used to be.I respectfully disagree with your first assertion. I have been involved with Rocky for over 25 years and I think it's just as vibrant. There will always be peaks and ebbs in its popularity, but the Rocky community has continued to thrive. It may not feel the same as it did back in the 70s and early 80s, but neither does the national landscape. Rocky is not the same as it used to be because youth culture is not what it used to be. While there may be the occasional old fart like myself going to Rocky, its core audience has been and always will be young people, so as they change, so does Rocky.

[Chernabog]

We'd love for you to come on down, but please don't bring rice or anything else to throw. The theater was very recently restored and we don't want to do anything that might ruin the work that was done.


Congrats on rejoining!!! You didn't tell us!!! We need to make this a LoT nite if you're actually IN the dang thing.

I don't understand the no throwing thing though -- is this something that will happen on the test runs of this show at this theatre, or a permanent thing? That's one of the main fun things of the Rocky experience.

[innerSpaceman]

I'm one who feels the Rocky experience has declined drastically, tho some say it's merely changed.


While it's been a source of tremendous fun ... I found the "innovation" of dress-alike casts who act out the movie to be something that was ultimately a detriment to the group experience.

Throwing props is a great, egalitarian part of that group experience. I hate to think that's been lost.

But that best part, imo, were the clever and evolving lines shouted by the audience, sometimes in unison and sometimes by a lone innovator. To be copied, if successful, or relegated to the scrap heap if not.

Alas, this also devolved into a detriment, where there was not 2 consecutive seconds of screen sound before the audience would be yelling someething or other.

IMO, Rocky Horror lost its cleverness when there had to be an audience line for every breath taken on screen. And, though it's been a source of fantastic fun ... in the long run, the advent of cast performances that took attention away from the film and put it on a smattering of particular performers detracted a bit from the grand group experience - again purely in my opinion.


Eh, whatever, the evolving is just that. It's all been fun of one stripe or another.

So, um, I guess I'm willing to go to a show where you can't throw rice or toast or toilet paper or cards. My intitial reaction is WTF?

But, yeah, what that hell? Let's go some nite.

[Disneyphile]

I'm willing to not throw rice to see SM perform! :snap:

[SzczerbiakManiac]

I don't understand the no throwing thing though -- is this something that will happen on the test runs of this show at this theatre, or a permanent thing?Considering the restoration committee spent million$ to renovate the Warner Grand, it is unlikely that the no throwing stuff policy will change in the foreseeable future. :(