THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW To Tour UK

Previewing at Wimbledon Theatre on 17 September 2009 followed by an extensive national tour, Richard O'Brien's outrageous classic The Rocky Horror Show will thrust its way through the UK featuring Olivier Award winner David Bedella as the celebrated Frank ‘n' Furter.

The Rocky Horror Show tells the story of engaged sweethearts Brad and Janet who are forced to seek refuge in a castle full of the maddest, baddest and sexiest group the world has ever seen.

Richard O'Brien is the writer of the The Rocky Horror Show which premiered at The Royal Court Theatre on 19 June 1973. He starred in the 1975 film adaptation as Riff Raff and is also widely recognised as the presenter of the popular TV show ‘The Crystal Maze'. Since premiering, the stage show has been in almost continuous production, and the cinematic version is one of the best known and most ardently followed films of all time.

Richard is currently in the casting process for his forthcoming production of a new pulp fiction detective musical The Stripper, by himself, Richard Hartley and Carter Brown, directed by Bob Carlton. Richard will also be appearing in the show.

Best known for creating the roles of Satan/Warm Up Man in Jerry Springer - The Opera, for which he won Best Musical Actor in 2004, David Bedella plays the mad scientist Frank ‘n' Furter for the 2009/10 UK tour. Bedella has walked the corridors of has BBC1's popular hospital drama Holby City as Doctor Carlos Fashola and starred in numerous Broadway and US national tours including Jesus Christ Superstar, La Cage Aux Folles, Almost Like Being in Love, Smokey Joe's Cafe, West Side Story, and A Chorus Line, or which he received the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He has also played Frank ‘n' Furter alongside Meat Loaf in The Rocky Horror Show.