Frank-N-Furter

The Rocky Horror Show
1974 poster at Kings Road Theatre
Music	Richard O'Brien
Lyrics	Richard O'Brien
Book	Richard O'Brien
Productions	1973 West End 1974 Los Angeles 1975 Broadway 1975 Film 1975 Rio de Janeiro 1978 New Zealand Tour 1979 UK Tour 1980 US Tour 1984 UK Tour 1990 West End Revival 1991 UK Tour 1994 UK Tour 1994 Buenos Aires 1997 Barcelona 1998 UK Tour 2000 Broadway Revival 2002 UK Tour 2002 St. Louis 2006 UK Tour 2009 UK Tour 2013 UK Tour 2015 Sydney 2015 40th Anniversary Live Cinema Broadcast 2015 Melbourne 2016 UK Tour 2016 Television Film 2016 Buenos Aires 2016 São Paulo
Awards	Evening Standard Award for Best Musical

The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien. A humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through to the early 1970s, the musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist, Dr Frank N. Furter, unveiling his new creation, a sort of Frankenstein-style monster in the form of an artificially made, fully grown, physically perfect muscle man named Rocky Horror, complete "with blond hair and a tan".

Produced and directed by Jim Sharman, the original London production of the musical premiered at the Royal Court Theatre (Upstairs) on 19 June 1973 (after 2 previews on the 16 and 18 June 1973) before moving to several other locations in London and closing on 13 September 1980, running for a total of 2,960 performances and winning the 1973 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical. Its 1974 debut in the US in Los Angeles had a successful nine-month run but its 1975 Broadway debut at the Belasco Theatre lasted only three previews and forty five showings despite earning one Tony nomination and three Drama Desk nominations. Various international productions have since spanned across six continents as well as West End and Broadway revivals and eight UK tours. Actor Tim Curry, who originated the role of Dr Frank N. Furter in the original London production, became particularly associated with the musical.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a powerful musical that sparked a cult movement through its movie musical adaptation. Rocky Horror’s magnetic power not only drew audiences in and kept them coming back for more but also roused them to blur the boundaries between stage and audience through audience pantomime. This allowed audiences to enter the fantasy and ritual of the world. Rocky Horror brings together people from all walks of life and through its compelling attraction explores, in the spirit of glam rock, the liberation from normative heterosexuality, celebration of androgyny and queer sexual awakenings.