So a few weeks ago I saw that the 40th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Show was on BBC America. I had seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show back in the 70’s before it had become a midnight movie cult classic and I wondered if it was the stage adaption of the movie or vice versa. Turns out the stage version was first and then came the movie. Here is Time Warp from the movie. Riff Raff is portrayed by Richard O’Brien who wrote the show.

It was fun watching the stage show as the audience participated. Unfortunately, the audience participation was far better in the first act than then the second act. If you get a chance to see the movie at a midnight showing, do so, as the audience dresses up and takes an active part like throwing rice at the wedding. This is prolly Susan Sarandon’s best role: a clueless bimbo. She didn’t even have to act.