TS1 found this while looking for something to do on New Year’s Eve, I’m not sure how. But I highly recommend if you have a free night between now and January 6, spend the $20 a ticket and drive over to San Jose to see Actors Theater Center’s stage production of The Rocky Horror Show. We had a terrific time, the cast is very good and the show is in a cozy little theater next to a middle school.
Before I lived out here I used to go to shows fairly often, on Broadway, off Broadway and the Paper Mill Playhouse (a, it’s the official state theater of New Jersey and b, the original building was a paper mill, okay?), my parents being quite the devotees of the stage. Out here, not being a huge fan of driving up to San Francisco and the ridiculous ticket prices for big name shows (we checked into seeing Jersey Boys and the cheapest seats worth buying are $90 each, and that’s before the TicketMaster fees).
These days people may not remember that this was originally a stage production in London and the movie wasn’t made until two years later (though Tim Curry was the star of both). Director Jeff Hicks has done a nice job of translating it back and local theater vet Tad M. Morgan is a hoot as Frank N. Furter and David Cori does a perfect job as the narrator, handling the traditional audience responses especially well. After the curtain call, the whole cast lead the audience in doing the Time Warp (again).
It’s been a long time but I used to be a regular at the Friday midnight movie shows back in college and this was a fun time warp. If you’re still looking for a different way to ring in the New Year, this is a good bet.
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