A review of The Rocky Horror Show, a musical that breaks the fourth wall and invites the audience to participate.
I will never forget the sudden jolt of the new; the thrill of witnessing a show like no other. Fifty years on, it’s still that. Where most musicals take themselves seriously,It blasts the fourth wall into oblivion and invites us into the silliness – not just as voyeurs, but as participants (if that is your fetish). And after five decades of live productions and a long tradition of midnight movie screenings, the audience is well primed to play its role.
In fact, some of the night’s funniest lines came from the heckling, and when Jason Donovan got the giggles in act two and struggled to whip his jaw back into line, it could almost have been written into Richard O’Brien’s original script. The audience, of course, was in hysterics.is about watching people playing the characters, rather than just watching the characters. In this regard, it has more in common withthan with conventional stage shows. No one pretends anything is rea
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