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'Rocky Horror Picture Show' plays on HalloweenPosted on Oct. 30, 2008 at 2:47 PM - Post Comment
From the beginning, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" was a cult smash. Over the past 30 years, it has become participatory live theater in the extreme. It has also become a Halloween tradition in Newburyport. The Firehouse Center for the Arts will once again host the film/party on Friday, Oct. 31 at 11 p.m., complete with complimentary "prop bags" and a special "V" seating section.Just in case you've recently arrived from another galaxy and have never seen or heard about it, the movie-musical is actually a finely honed tongue-in-cheek spoof, loosely based on Frankenstein, which quotes nearly every horror film made before 1975. As an outrageous assemblage of the most stereo-typed science fiction movies, Marvel comics, Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello outings and rock 'n' roll of every vintage, the story is about the sexual confusion of two middle American Ike-Age kids confronted by the complications of the decadent morality of the '70s, represented in the person of the mad "doctor" Fran...
Originally from: http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20081016-ENTERTAIN-810160306 |
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