Rehearsals are well under way for the new production of much-loved musical The Rocky Horror Show ahead of its Sydney premier on February 14.
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The new production coincides with the musical's 50th anniversary and cast members, including Jason Donovan as Frank N. Furter and Myf Warhurst as the The Narrator, have been hard at work perfecting their performances.
Sydney's Theatre Royal will host a strictly limited season, which must end on April 1, before the production heads to Adelaide and Melbourne.
The Rocky Horror Show was created and written by Richard O'Brien and was first performed on stage in London's Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs in 1973. Within two years, it had spawned a movie version, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
O'Brien came up with the idea for the musical in the early 1970s when he was asked to entertain the Christmas staff party at EMI Film Studios. He turned up with a song, Science Fiction - Double Feature, and from that song The Rocky Horror Show was born.
It spawned the smash hit song, Time Warp, and has since earned a place in the record books as the only contemporary rock musical to continuously run somewhere in the world for 50 years.
Globally, more than 30 million people in 30 countries have seen the musical on stage.
For the uninitiated, The Rocky Horror Show tells the story of Brad and his fiancée Janet, two squeaky clean college kids whose car breaks down near a castle. There they meet Dr Frank N. Furter, an extra-terrestrial 'mad scientist' from Transylvania.
The hit musical deals with the issues of freedom, sexual awakening and empowerment, and resulted in one of the world's most famous musical numbers, Time Warp.
With Australian audiences long embracing the show, O'Brien says there was nowhere better in the world to launch the musical's 50th anniversary tour.
Details: The Rocky Horror Show, Theatre Royal Sydney, February 14-April 1. Tickets here
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Journalist with more than 25 years' experience in print and digital media who has covered most news rounds, including health, education, politics (local, state and federal), police and courts, with a special interest in women's and family matters. Highly-skilled interviewer and storyteller.
