Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:Shiffman@WHITE.SWW.Symbolics.COM From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:Shiffman@WHITE.SWW.Symbolics.COM Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: The Rocky Horror Show. Message-ID: <595@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 12:13:45 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.595 Posted: Tue Feb 12 12:13:45 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 00:59:01 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 16 From: Hank ShiffmanDate: Sat 9 Feb 85 13:46:55-PST From: Evan Kirshenbaum As a possible explanation of the lack of success of the stage play on Broadway, have you ever seen (or heard) the music for the original? They improved it quite a bit for the Movie. The play may not have been successful on Broadway, but it was another story in London. I saw it there in August of 1980, just before it finally closed down after an eight year run. (Jesus Christ Superstar, which opened in London a few months before Rocky Horror, closed around the same time.) Personally, I thought the play was a good deal funnier and more effective than the film. I also preferred the music in the play, although I would have given a lot to have seen Tim Curry as Frank.