The feeling is very different than shouting at a screen that is not going to respond in any way.”Īnd yes, the actors on stage are expecting the same level of audience participation for the live show as they would for a midnight movie screening. It’s really a live, fluid, living, organic thing. Here, the audience really shapes the experience not only for themselves but also for the actors on stage. When you’re watching the film, the audience is participating but the film isn’t responding. The audience is very much a part of the show.

You’re watching human beings inhabit the characters and bringing a fresh take to it because it’s not something that was put on celluloid 30 years ago.

“I feel like it takes in more of the community that it’s being done in. If your only experience with “Rocky Horror” has been from seeing it on the screen, Harrison noted that experiencing the show live on stage will take it to the next level. It’s grown and swelled from what it was when it began.” I feel like the performances are so much about the community of people being together and responding to the film or the show. “It’s still a radical piece of material and it brings people together of an interesting subculture. “I think it probably means something similar ,” he said. Harrison said that even though there are far more adventurous films and media accessible to the mainstream public these days, younger generations are still finding inspiration in a classic like “Rocky Horror.” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” didn’t exactly set the world on fire when it debuted, but its eccentric characters gradually caught on with audiences at midnight screenings, many of whom identified with the film’s themes of fluid sexuality and marching to your own beat. 29, is “Queer As Folk” star Randy Harrison, who is starring as Dr. Bucks County Playhouse is getting into the spirit of the Halloween season with the return of Richard O’Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show,” a musical that inspired the 1975 cult-classic film “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”Īdding to the excitement of the production, on stage through Oct.

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