Time Warp! FOX's ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Unveils New Details at TCA Panel
By: BWW News Desk Aug. 08, 2016
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, a brand-new reimagining of the cult-classic midnight movie 40 years in the making, premieres Thursday, Oct. 20 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
The ROCKY HORROR team chatted it up at this year's TCA panel, and BroadwayWorld has all the details!
- ROCKY HORROR will include a show-within-a-show where "we'll watch an audience of fans playing out the callbacks."
- The president of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Fan Club will make an appearance in the event.
- The music will be true to the original but with a "contemporary" flare.
- Director, Kenny Ortega, has assured fans that all performers will do their own singing. "Every note coming out of every mouth."
-Performers went through a full month of rehearsal.
- Executive producer, Gail Berman, says that this project followed her to her different networks and studio jobs for ten years.
- The original Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Tim Curry, has had enthusiastic involvement in the project and personally approved Laverne Cox's first rehearsal of the number, "Sweet Transvestite."
-A new song for the film will not be included in the broadcast but will be featured on a DVD set for release one month after the show airs.
About ROCKY HORROR on FOX: The special two-hour musical event follows sweethearts JANET (Victoria Justice, co-host of TEEN CHOICE 2016, "Victorious") and BRAD (Ryan McCartan, "Liv & Maddie," "Heathers the Musical"), who stumble upon DR. FRANK-N-FURTER's (Emmy Award-nominated actress Laverne Cox, "Doubt," "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.
Videos