"The Rocky Horror Picture Show turns 50 on September 26. As everyone worth their rice and toilet paper rolls knows, the Clinton Street Theater has been showing the participatory camp gem weekly for nearly as long-longer, in fact, than anywhere else on the planet (truly!). But what launched the lollapalooza, and what's kept Portland's Transylvanians lining up in glitter and fishnets to see the longest-running release in film history? Without further ado, I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey."
"1973 The Rocky Horror Show, a stage musical about an unsuspecting couple's sordid night in the home of a raunchy Frankenstein type, opens in London. The Guardian applauds Tim Curry's "garishly Bowiesque performance as the ambisextrous doctor" Frank-N-Furter. Curry says later that Angela Bowie, David's first wife, started the show's famous callbacks: When handyman Riff Raff and maid Magenta are about to off Frank, she shouted, "No, don't do it!" from the crowd."
The Rocky Horror Picture Show reaches its 50th anniversary on September 26 and maintains long-running weekly participatory screenings at Portland's Clinton Street Theater. The property began in 1973 as a London stage musical about an unsuspecting couple encountering the flamboyant Dr. Frank-N-Furter, featuring Tim Curry's distinctive performance and spontaneous audience callbacks. The show moved to Broadway in 1975 and was adapted into a 1975 film starring Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick, which initially flopped. A 1976 relaunch of midnight screenings by 20th Century Fox at the Waverly Theater in Greenwich Village ignited a cult phenomenon of dressing up and interactive audience behavior.
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