Airdate: The Rocky Horror Show Live
SBS to screen musical performance with Stephen Fry, Emma Bunton, Adrian Edmondson and Richard O'Brien himself.
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On October 31st (which just happens to be Halloween), SBS will screen a music theatre performance of The Rocky Horror Show Live.
This was recently recorded in the UK more than 40 years after Richard O’Brien’s hit musical first appeared.
The cast includes David Bedella as Frank-n-Furter plus Stephen Fry, Emma Bunton, Adrian Edmondson, Anthony Head, Mel Giedroyc and Richard O’Brien himself all as narrators.
Still the world’s favourite rock ’n’ roll musical 40 years on, the sensational Rocky Horror Show is hailed by critics and adored by fans around the world, and “still has audiences rolling in the aisles” (Daily Telegraph). For this exclusive event, O’Brien returns to the cast for the first time in more than 20 years.
On the way to visit an old college professor, two clean-cut kids, Brad Majors and his fiancée Janet Weiss, run into tyre trouble and seek help at the site of a light down the road. It’s coming from the Frankenstein place, where Dr Frank N. Furter is in the midst of one of his maniacal experiments…
Ready to thrill you with its frothy, fun and naughty moments, this is the boldest bash of them all, so sharpen those stilettos for the rockiest ride of your life! Get ready for a night of frolics, bursting at the seams with timeless classics including Sweet Transvestite and Dammit Janet – and join us for the largest pelvic-thrusting worldwide Time Warp ever to make Rocky history! Don’t Dream It – Be It.
Premieres Saturday 31 October, 8.30pm on SBS.
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3 Responses
The stage version is called “The Rocky Horror Show”.
The movie version is called “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”.
You seem to have mangled both.
Thanks for pointing out. I didn’t really understand why the need to add “Live” anyway. Think that’s what distracted me…
I’m really looking forward to this. I was lucky enough to see Richard O’Brien as the Narrator last year during the Adelaide season of RHS; I can’t wait to see this version, although I don’t know if there will ever be another Frank quite like Craig McLachlan.