FOX Execs Hope to Announce 'At Least One If Not More' Live Musical Events; 'Rocky Horror' Set for October Debut

This morning, BWW participated in a media press conference with Gary Newman and Dana Walden, Chairmen & CEOs of Fox Television Group, to learn more about the network's 2016-17 programming schedule announced today.

During the call, Newman was asked about the possibility of additional live musical events following the huge success of last season's GREASE: LIVE. Responded the exec, "In terms of the future, we're very interested in staying in this space. We have nothing that we are prepared to announce today, but we're working on some projects that we think are very exciting, and we're hopeful that in the next few months we'll have at least one, if not more than one announcement, to make of other live musical events. "

In addition, the network announced that its new musical event THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW will debut this October during the week of Halloween.

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About ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: FOX is doing the Time Warp, with the brand-new production of the 1975 cult classic. A reimagining of the original movie, the two-hour event follows sweethearts JANET (Victoria Justice, "Victorious") and BRAD (Ryan McCartan, "Liv & Maddie," "Heathers the Musical"), who stumble upon DR. FRANK-N-FURTER's (Emmy Award-nominated actress Laverne Cox, "Orange is the New Black") bizarre abode. Frank-N-Furter, a sexually ambiguous, flirtatious mad-scientist, is holding an annual Transylvanian Science convention to showcase the birth of ROCKY HORROR - a muscle-bound specimen created solely to fulfill Frank's desires. Actor and singer Staz Nair ("Game of Thrones") will star in the role. Also featured in the event are AMERICAN IDOL alum Adam Lambert as EDDIE, Reeve Carney ("Penny Dreadful," "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark") as RIFF RAFF, Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford ("Sylvia," "You Can't Take It With You," "Masters of Sex") as COLUMBIA, Christina Milian ("Grandfathered") as MAGENTA, Ivy Levan as USHERETTE, Tony Award winner Ben Vereen ("Pippin") as DR. EVERETT SCOTT and Emmy Award nominee Tim Curry, the original Frank-N-Furter, as the show's CRIMINOLOGIST NARRATOR.

Celebrating 40 years of theatrical distribution - longer than any other film in history - "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is one of the most popular films of all time, and still plays in movie theaters around the world. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is executive-produced by Lou Adler (Grammy Award winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and executive producer of the original "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"), Gail Berman ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer," former President of FOX Broadcasting) and Kenny Ortega (Emmy Award-winning director and choreographer, "High School Musical" franchise, "This Is It," "Descendants," "Hocus Pocus," "Newsies"). THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is based upon the original screenplay by Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien with lyrics and music by Richard O'Brien.

Lou Adler, Gail Berman, and Kenny Ortega serve as executive producers. Kenny Ortega will direct.

CAST: Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Tim Curry as Criminologist Narrator, Victoria Justice as Janet Weiss, Ryan McCartan as Brad Majors, Reeve Carney as Riff Raff, Christina Milian as Magenta, Annaleigh Ashford as Columbia, Adam Lambert as Eddie, Staz Nair as Rocky Horror, Ben Vereen as Dr. Everett Scott, Ivy Levan as Usherette

Photo courtesy of FOX