The Rocky Horror Show opens on Broadway tonight amidst a cultural landscape much changed – or maybe not so much – from the ’70s midnight movie circuit era that gave asshole (audience says so, not me) Brad, Janet (damn it!) and Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania, a landing place in the world. A celebration of LGBTQ+ vivacity long before those letters were strung together, Rocky Horror was an outrageous and necessary tonic in a world unwelcoming to cross-dressing rice-tossers who shouted vulgar quips at big screen images of Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Meat Loaf, all playing various assorted misfits.
The new musical revival from Oh, Mary! director Sam Pinkleton does no less – even if patrons are encouraged to lay off the pelted objects and too-many-interruptions with a pre-show warning “Don’t be an asshole.”
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