Rocky Horror Picture Show

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By Jon Greenberg on Thursday, August 24, 2006.
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Thirty years ago, a quirky little film had its first midnight screening at the Waverly Theater in New York. Featuring then little known actors Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick, the Rocky Horror Picture Show defied classification. Part song and dance, part parody of everything from B-movies to horror and sci-fi flicks and a whole lot of gender bending, the movie has since become a cult classic known mostly for its intense audience participation in the form of costumes, shouted ad libs and a laundry list of props brought to the theater, including toast, squirt guns and toilet paper. We'll look back at thirty years of midnight screenings and how the Rocky Horror Picture Show has forever changed the late night theater experience. Jon Greenberg hosts. His guest is Garen Daly, Exchange Film Commentator and Artistic Director of the Peterborough Community Theatre. We'll also hear from Jerry Dunk, Director of the Sensual Daydreams cast for the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. The Oriental has the world record for longest continuous engagement of the RHPS in the world.

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