'Rocky Horror' more than just a one-night stand
Theatre department to perform second annual production Oct. 30
Sarah Giarratana
Issue date: 10/23/09 Section: Features
Tight leather, stilettos and moans of pleasure from the crowd. Fishnets, screams and loud cussing directed at the people on stage. These sights and sounds bring to mind a rowdy strip club or a seedy bar at the end of a long deserted highway. But this Halloween, these sights and sounds will come to Milledgeville in the latest production of a 34-year-old cult tradition: "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
On Halloween, the Clarke Street Lip Sitters will stimulate patrons as they present "Rocky Horror" for the second time in GCSU history. After selling out last year, the GCSU theater department decided that "Rocky Horror" was worth more than a one-night stand and established the show as an annual tradition.
The tradition of "Rocky Horror" dates back far beyond its life at GCSU, since the original film seduced its way into theaters in 1975 as a British musical comedy, parodying science fiction and horror films. The plot chronicles the adventures of Brad Majors and Janet Weiss as they stumble upon the Annual Transylvania Convention, after finding themselves lost with a flat tire. Thrown in to a world of mystical and strange happenings. Years later, "Rocky Horror" had its way with GCSU and under the direction of Dottie Pratt, brought intense pleasure to campus.
Twentieth Century Fox released the movie for adult crowds via the midnight market and by 1977 actors began playing the movie while simultaneously acting it out on a stage. The GCSU cast of "Rocky Horror" will perform the show in this manner, known as shadow casting.
"The movie plays behind us, so we're supposed to act like the characters in the movie as much as possible," said Steve Holbert, who plays Riff-Raff the handyman. "It takes away some of your creative license, but that's one of the challenges of an actor, making something out of somebody else."
Voted number two on Entertainment Weekly's list of top 50 cult classic movies in 2003, "Rocky Horror" continues to attract audiences across the country with comedy, music and timeless characters.
On Halloween, the Clarke Street Lip Sitters will stimulate patrons as they present "Rocky Horror" for the second time in GCSU history. After selling out last year, the GCSU theater department decided that "Rocky Horror" was worth more than a one-night stand and established the show as an annual tradition.
The tradition of "Rocky Horror" dates back far beyond its life at GCSU, since the original film seduced its way into theaters in 1975 as a British musical comedy, parodying science fiction and horror films. The plot chronicles the adventures of Brad Majors and Janet Weiss as they stumble upon the Annual Transylvania Convention, after finding themselves lost with a flat tire. Thrown in to a world of mystical and strange happenings. Years later, "Rocky Horror" had its way with GCSU and under the direction of Dottie Pratt, brought intense pleasure to campus.
Twentieth Century Fox released the movie for adult crowds via the midnight market and by 1977 actors began playing the movie while simultaneously acting it out on a stage. The GCSU cast of "Rocky Horror" will perform the show in this manner, known as shadow casting.
"The movie plays behind us, so we're supposed to act like the characters in the movie as much as possible," said Steve Holbert, who plays Riff-Raff the handyman. "It takes away some of your creative license, but that's one of the challenges of an actor, making something out of somebody else."
Voted number two on Entertainment Weekly's list of top 50 cult classic movies in 2003, "Rocky Horror" continues to attract audiences across the country with comedy, music and timeless characters.
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