? Rocky Horror Show Soundtrack ? RARE 1974 Ode Records Original Press Vinyl LP

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• 1973 West End
• 1974 Los Angeles
• 1974 Sydney
• 1975 Broadway
• 1975 Film
• 1975 Rio de Janeiro
• 1975 Melbourne
• 1977 Adelaide
• 1978 New Zealand Tour
• 1978 Wagga Wagga (first Australian regional production)
• 1978 Brisbane
• 1979 UK Tour
• 1980 US Tour
• 1981 Wagga Wagga
• 1981-82 Australian Tour
• 1984 UK Tour
• 1984 Australian Tour
• 1985 Australian rural tour
• 1986 New Zealand Tour
• 1987-88 Australasia Tour
• 1990 West End Revival
• 1991 UK Tour
• 1994 UK Tour
• 1994 Buenos Aires
• 1997 Barcelona
• 1998 UK Tour
• 2000 Broadway Revival
• 2002 UK Tour
• 2002 St. Louis
• 2004 Brisbane
• 2004 Neighbours Charity Concert, Melbourne
• 2006 Tribute Concert, London
• 2006 UK Tour
• 2008 Sydney
• 2008-09 Melbourne
• 2009 UK Tour
• 2010 35th Anniversary Benefit Performance, Los Angeles
• 2010 Glee Tribute Episode
• 2013 UK Tour
• 2014-15 Australian Tour
• 2015 40th Anniversary Live Cinema Broadcast
• 2016 UK Tour
• 2016 Television Film
• 2016 Buenos Aires
• 2016 São Paulo
• 2017 Buenos Aires
• 2017-18 Australian Encore Tour

The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien. A humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through to the early 1970s, the musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist, Dr Frank N. Furter, unveiling his new creation, a sort of Frankenstein-style monster in the form of an artificially made, fully grown, physically perfect muscle man named Rocky Horror, complete "with blond hair and a tan".

Produced and directed by Jim Sharman, the original London production of the musical premiered at the Royal Court Theatre (Upstairs) on 19 June 1973 (after two previews on 16 and 18 June 1973) before moving to several other locations in London and closing on 13 September 1980, running for a total of 2,960 performances and winning the 1973 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical. Its 1974 debut in the US in Los Angeles had a successful nine-month run but its 1975 Broadway debut at the Belasco Theatre lasted only three previews and forty five showings despite earning one Tony nomination and three Drama Desk nominations. Various international productions have since spanned across six continents as well as West End and Broadway revivals and eight UK tours. Actor Tim Curry, who originated the role of Dr Frank N. Furter in the original London production, became particularly associated with the musical.

The musical was adapted into the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, starring O'Brien as Riff Raff, with Curry also reprising his role; the film has the longest-running release in film history. In 2016 it was adapted into the television film The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again. The musical was ranked eighth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals".

History

As an out-of-work actor in London in the early 1970s, Richard O'Brien wrote The Rocky Horror Show to keep himself busy on winter evenings. Since his youth, O'Brien had developed a passion for science fiction and B horror movies; he wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle flicks and fifties rock and roll into The Rocky Horror Show. A major theme running throughout the musical is transvestitism, which according to O'Brien was not originally meant to be as prominent as it would end up being. O'Brien conceived and wrote the play set against the backdrop of the glam era that had manifested itself throughout British popular culture in the 1970s. Allowing his concept to come into being, O'Brien states "glam rock allowed me to be myself more".

O'Brien took a small amount of his unfinished Rocky Horror to Australian director Jim Sharman, who decided he wanted to direct it at the small experimental space Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, Chelsea, London, which was used as a project space for new work. Sharman had received considerable local acclaim as the director of the original Australian productions of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. He went to London to direct the first British stage production of Superstar, during which he met O'Brien, who had played King Herod for just one performance. Sharman brought in fellow Australians Nell Campbell and long-time scenic designer partner Brian Thomson to the production.

Star Tim Curry recalled his first encounter with the script:

I'd heard about the play because I lived on Paddington Street, off Baker Street, and there was an old gym a few doors away. I saw Richard O'Brien in the street, and he said he'd just been to the gym to see if he could find a muscleman who could sing. I said, "Why do you need him to sing?" [laughs] And he told me that his musical was going to be done, and I should talk to Jim Sharman. He gave me the script, and I thought, "Boy, if this works, it's going to be a smash."

The original creative team was then rounded out by costume designer Sue Blane and musical director Richard Hartley, although Pete Moss would later take over as musical director. Michael White was also brought in to produce Rocky Horror. As the musical went into rehearsal, the working title for it became They Came from Denton High, but it was changed just before previews at the suggestion of Sharman to The Rocky Horror Show.

After two previews, the show premiered – without an interval – at the Royal Court's 63-seat Theatre Upstairs on 19 June 1973 and ran until 20 July 1973. The cast included Tim Curry, who had decided that Dr Frank N. Furter shouldn't just be a queen, he should speak like the Queen of England, extravagantly posh, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell (billed as Little Nell), Julie Covington, and O'Brien, who made the production, which was all-out camp, a creative triumph and a critical and commercial success. Record producer Jonathan Kingsaw it on the second night and signed the cast to make the original cast recording over a long weekend that was rushed out on his UK Records label. King was involved heavily in the initial promotion for the show as well as being the minority backer of it financially with White having a majority share.

The impact at the Royal Court Upstairs allowed the production be transferred to the 230-seat Chelsea Classic Cinema nearby on Kings Road from 14 August 1973 to 20 October 1973. Rocky Horror found a quasi-permanent home at the 500-seat King's Road Theatre (another cinema house) even further down Kings Road from 3 November 1973. The show received critical praise and won the 1973 Evening Standard Award for Best Musical. When Richard O'Brien played Riff Raff in the original Broadway production of Rocky Horror in 1974 Robert Longden took over the role in London.

The show's run at the King's Road Theatre ended on 31 March 1979 before transferring to the Comedy Theatre (now the Harold Pinter Theatre) to begin performances on 6 April 1979. At the new venue, Rocky Horror required some restaging as it was the first theatre that the musical had played at with a traditional proscenium arch stage. For the first time, the musical was also broken into two acts with an interval. It finished its run there on 13 September 1980.

Music

• "Science Fiction/Double Feature"
• "Dammit, Janet!"
• "Over at the Frankenstein Place"
• "Sweet Transvestite"
• "The Time Warp"
• "The Sword of Damocles"
• "I Can Make You a Man"
• "What Ever Happened to Saturday Night?"
• "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me"
• "Once in a While"
• "Eddie's Teddy"
• "Planet, Schmanet, Janet"
• "Rose Tint My World/Don't Dream It, Be It/Wild and Untamed Thing"
• "I'm Going Home"
• "Superheroes"
• "Science Fiction/Double Feature (Reprise)"

At the Classic Cinema and King's Road Theatre (Formerly the Essoldo Cinema), the following songs were added: "I Can Make You a Man", a reprise of the same and "Eddie's Teddy".

• "Science Fiction" - Trixie
• "Damn-it Janet" - Brad and Janet
• "Over at the Frankenstein Place" - Janet, Brad, and Riff Raff
• "Sweet Transvestite" - Frank and Company
• "Time Warp" - Magenta, Columbia, Riff-Raff, and the Narrator
• "The Sword of Damocles" - Rocky
• "Charles Atlas Song" - Frank
• "Hot Patootie" - Eddie
• "Charles Atlas Song (Reprise)" - Frank
• "Eddie's Teddy" - Dr. Scott, Columbia, and Company
• "Once in a While" - Brad
• "Planet Schmanet Janet" - Frank
• "Rose Tint My World" - Company
• "Superheroes" - Company
• "Science Fiction (Reprise)" - Trixie
• "Sweet Transvestite (Reprise)" - Company
• "Time Warp (Reprise)" - Company

Legacy

The Rocky Horror Show was one of the first musicals to depict fluid-sexuality during a time of division between generations and an old-world lack of sexual difference acceptance. At the time of its release, it pushed boundaries and has become a cultural icon which promotes empowerment of self-creation and all sexual orientations. Since the 1970s, societal evolution of sexuality and gender have created cultural and legal change, coming closer to realizing the musical’s futuristic vision of an accepting sexual revolution.

Cast recordings

• 1973 London Cast
• 1974 Roxy Cast
• 1974 Australian Cast
• 1975 Brazilian Cast
• 1975 Film Soundtrack
• 1976 Mexican Cast
• 1977 Norwegian Cast

• 1978 New Zealand Cast (starring Gary Glitter)
• 1980 German Cast
• 1981 Australian Cast
• 1990 London Cast ("The Whole Gory Story")
• 1991 Icelandic Cast
• 1992 Australian Cast
• 1994 German Cast

• 1995 New Zealand Cast
• 1995 Finnish Cast
• 1995 Icelandic Cast
• 1995 German Cast
• 1995 Studio Cast (w/Christopher Lee as "The Narrator")
• 1996 Danish Cast
• 1996–97 European Tour

• 1997 German Cast
• 1998 London Cast
• 1998 South African Cast
• 2001 Broadway Cast
• 2001 Korean Cast
• 2001 Peruvian Cast

• 2002 Philippine Cast
• 2005 Vancouver Cast
• 2007 Panamanian Cast
• 2009 Mexican Cast
• 2010 Icelandic Cast
• 2010 Glee Tribute Soundtrack
• 2011 Poland Cast
• 2011 Japan Cast

Awards and nominations

The original London production won the award for Best Musical at the Evening Standard Awards in 1973. Additionally, both the original Broadway production and the 2000 revival of the musicals have accrued nominations for both Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards.