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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.
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