Really can’t lose
The Rocky Horror Show opens in less than two weeks. Tickets are available online; be sure to check out the performance schedule as we are having a number of exciting guest narrators from various dignified public offices. I shouldn’t have to inform you that this is one of those shows that is going to sell out, but in case you hadn’t realized, its the freaking Rocky Horror Show. I’d especially purchase early if you were thinking of attending five-buck Friday or any of the Halloween performances, or the shows with the more celebrity guest narrators.
The cast is fantastic. I’ve worked with two of them in previous shows, but there are three that I’d only known socially and through having seen their own incredible performances, so I’ve been experiencing a lot of pressure not to disappoint them in their first show with me, especially when I’m feeling so out of my vocal league. The vocals are coming along but there’s only so much that’s possible in the time we have… I’m doing everything I can, though, including seeing a “rock specialist” that one of my castmates goes to. It’s a tight rehearsal schedule, and while I’m not being worked quite as hard as I was in Urinetown I feel like there’s a lot more at stake. We had a four-hour vocal rehearsal on Saturday, and I must’ve done my solo in “Over at the Frankenstein Place” a dozen times (not to mention Time Warp and other stuff). I then did three improv shows in the evening, rounded out by my MC’ing for Theatresports… probably not the best move in hindsight, since it involves a lot of loud talking and I could hear my voice cracking the entire time. (I’m cutting down on my improv by only doing one night a week, but it’s still pretty heavy.)
It’s going to be a great show, though. We’ve started rehearsing with the band, and they rock, and we’ve started getting some of our costume pieces, and they also rock. I was feeling a little left out because my Riff Raff costume is designed to be “elegant”, which basically makes me the most heavily dressed person in the cast of a show where the norm is to be, well, more exposed. It also doesn’t help that between the layers and the wig I’m going to be drowning in my own sweat. My space-suit costume for the end of the show, however, is a fantastic silver spandex number that leaves little to the imagination and plenty for the audience to appreciate, which is just fantastic.
Most of my friends know I don’t go out of my way to promote most of my shows… I’ll never tell people to come see a show just because I’m in it, and won’t unless I think you’ll definitely be getting entertainment value on your dollar. That said, this is definitely a show worth seeing… not so much because of me, but besides the overall stellar cast and awesome general rockitude of it, if you can’t cut loose and have a good time watching The Rocky Horror Show then you’re probably beyond my reach. Plus it’s an extremely sexy show with an extremely sexy cast, so you really can’t lose, eh?
Dan.
Tags: improv, rocky horror