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Rocky Horror Show

The first ever musical on stage written by Richard O'Brien was The Rocky Horror Show. It was first shown on June 19, 1973, at the Royal Court Theater Upstairs, a small venue with only 60 seats, in London. Due to the overwhelming success of the first four weeks, it was transferred to the Chelsea Classic Cinema, where it played for another 2,960 performances through 1980 in London.

It also ran at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles, California, with Tim Curry as Frank and Meat Loaf as Eddie/Dr. Scott. It was also very successful. Lou Adler was the producer of the show.

The Story

One fateful night, Janet Weiss and her fiancée, Brad Majors, a good-natured, average, young couple in love, went to see an old professor. They are compelled to seek shelter at the castle of Dr. Frank 'N' Furter, an alien transgender scientist with a crazy genius and voracious sexuality, due to the impending storm and a flat tire. Brad, Janet, and the other members of Frank' N' Furter get sucked into the scientist's latest experiment.

Everything Brad and Janet believed they understood about themselves, each other, love, and lust will be called into question by the bizarre events of that night. You won't soon forget the laughs and thrills of The Rocky Horror Show. It is a loving homage to the classic B sci-fi and horror film genres and has an irresistible rock'n'roll score.

Productions

Through ventures like Monterey Pop, Lou Adler amassed a large fortune. His Ode Records label was quickly becoming a hotspot for cutting-edge artists. At the end of winter in 1973, Adler was in London, where he saw the show with Britt Ekland. He met with producers backstage when he saw it was a hit, and within 36 hours, he had bought the American theatrical rights.

The show opened on March 24, 1974, at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles, where it ran for nine months. Except for Tim Curry, everyone else in the cast was new. The show had a whole house, and 20th Century Fox agreed to make a movie based on it. After attending the show at the Roxy, Fox executive Gordon Stulberg decided to invest $1 million in the motion picture. Adler's plan to turn his club into a playhouse worked.

Meat Loaf remembers that famous people would come to the show, which is how he met Elvis Presley at one of his shows. Sid Strong hired Al Franken when he was a young apprentice in the lighting business.