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.

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.

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.

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

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. :(