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A Rocky Horror Halloween Picture Show
Issue date: 10/29/09
You will need: Toast, Spray bottles, a deck of cards and a lot of newspaper. Or not, because then it gets too complicated.
However, if you're looking for fun on your Thursday night, might I recommend the showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
I know, science people: You don't know what that is. I'll be more than happy to tell you.
Around Halloween, and always at midnight, theaters across the country drop onto their silver screens the acid trip that is The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
And you too can take part in this psychedelic experience tonight at the Arenello Theatre right before the witching hour of 11:50 p.m..
If you are a guy, simply strap on some leather chaps, slap on some black lipstick and put on a leather vest and you are the Transsexual from Transylvania ready for action.
If you are still confused, a brief plot summary of the movie might help. Barry Bostwick and a very young Susan Sarandon (no, her nose is still messed up) get lost and their car's tire goes flat.
They must find help inside a spooky castle conveniently located in front of them and stocked with mal-shaped servants like Riff-Raff, the humpbacked butler and a cross-dressing Tim Curry, who plays the whacked Dr. Frank N. Furter. Thus Suse and Bare enter a musical malfunction of mysterious proportions and they must find their way out.
If that were the whole story, then The Rocky Horror Picture Show would simply be a terrible movie. But no, it is a terrible movie with a cult following. Thus it has become an interactive musical on par with The Sound of Music.
Except better, because instead of just singing along and dressing up, you sing along, dress up, dance and use spray bottles during the rain scene.
When songs like The Time Warp start playing on the big screen, you get up in the aisles and dance right along with the actors. After it is all said and done, everyone has made a gigantic fool of themselves and has had more fun than the size of their foolishness. Just remember: It's just a jump to the left and then a step to the right.
However, if you're looking for fun on your Thursday night, might I recommend the showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
I know, science people: You don't know what that is. I'll be more than happy to tell you.
Around Halloween, and always at midnight, theaters across the country drop onto their silver screens the acid trip that is The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
And you too can take part in this psychedelic experience tonight at the Arenello Theatre right before the witching hour of 11:50 p.m..
If you are a guy, simply strap on some leather chaps, slap on some black lipstick and put on a leather vest and you are the Transsexual from Transylvania ready for action.
If you are still confused, a brief plot summary of the movie might help. Barry Bostwick and a very young Susan Sarandon (no, her nose is still messed up) get lost and their car's tire goes flat.
They must find help inside a spooky castle conveniently located in front of them and stocked with mal-shaped servants like Riff-Raff, the humpbacked butler and a cross-dressing Tim Curry, who plays the whacked Dr. Frank N. Furter. Thus Suse and Bare enter a musical malfunction of mysterious proportions and they must find their way out.
If that were the whole story, then The Rocky Horror Picture Show would simply be a terrible movie. But no, it is a terrible movie with a cult following. Thus it has become an interactive musical on par with The Sound of Music.
Except better, because instead of just singing along and dressing up, you sing along, dress up, dance and use spray bottles during the rain scene.
When songs like The Time Warp start playing on the big screen, you get up in the aisles and dance right along with the actors. After it is all said and done, everyone has made a gigantic fool of themselves and has had more fun than the size of their foolishness. Just remember: It's just a jump to the left and then a step to the right.
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CEvelyns
CEvelyns
posted 11/02/09 @ 1:35 PM EST
I'm a little confused...
Rocky Horror was on Friday?
I've never seen anyone bring toast or spray bottles to a JHU Rock Horror.
And a definite majority of Rocky Horror's JHU following is composed of Comp Sci/Science related majors. (Continued…)
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