37 years ago today, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" movie premiered in England. It has the longest-running theatrical release of all time and one of the best soundtracks of all time! I still get a kick out of watching it.In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
I was first introduced to the RHPS sometime between 1976 and 1977, as a theatrical production and not the film. My then boyfriend and I (we lived in the northern county area of San Diego at the time) would drive to Hollywood for various events, dinners, parties, clubs, etc. There was this one photographer whose name escapes me, but he had something to do with the play, and he used to throw these elaborate dinner parties, the kind with five or eight course meals, a bottle of wine with each new entree, and other various herbal and medicinal goodies! (I used to end up in the bathroom throwing up after these extraveganses from partaking too much). I still have the original soundtrack on cassette from the Broadway version.
ReplyDeleteFast forward to 1979, and I am back living in Los Angeles after a brief stint living in Hawai'i with the same old boyfriend (who still lives there). Knowing the soundtrack well before I had ever seen either the play or the movie, I went with my cousins to a midnight showing in the Valley, and that was my first time experiencing what has now became the famous audience participation, such as opening up the umbrellas during the rain scene, throwing the toilet paper rolls at the screen, talking back to the screen, and of course, getting up to do the Time Warp. Ah, the memories!
What fun it is to do the audience participation! I did the audience thing one time in Munich when I lived in Germany with my college English class. It was the midnight showing and my professor was this really cool eccentric older lady. Her name eludes me right now, but she was fun and I loved her class. I also had purchased a cassette [bootleg] tape of a recording of the entire movie with all the audience participation stuff, but my boyfriend's cousin borrowed it and I never got it back. I still do the time warp btw...
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