Posted on 09/23/2010 12:20:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Put on your favorite corset, fishnets and red lipstick and get ready to live it up like Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Brad and Janet because “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a tribute and costume ball.
The special one night event is taking place just in time for Halloween, Oct. 28 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Tribute’s cast features Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Billy Idol, Jason Segal, and Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison of “Glee” fame. Additional actors and singers will be announced soon.
The tribute will combine scenes from the 1975 cult classic film with select live musical performances.
Kenny Ortega, who directed Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” tour and the “High School Musical” series in addition to choreographing “Dirty Dancing,” has been snagged as the director.
Record producer/manager/director Lou Adler, who was one of the original producers of the film, is producing the tribute along with Kevin Duncan.
“It is going to be a night out to remember for a very long time,” Adler said.
Tickets are on sale starting today. General admission tickets are priced between $50 and $100. VIP tickets and packages including the post party Costume Ball are also available.
Proceeds from the event benefit The Painted Turtle, which was co-founded by Adler’s wife Page Hannah and Paul Newman as one of Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camps.
The Painted Turtle provides a year-round camp and hospital outreach programs to California children suffering from chronic and life-threatening illnesses.
“A toast!”
One of the hardest working stiffs in Hollywood, for years and years.
Just to live down that role!
I tivo’d it a while back just to have a copy of it, but I didn’t watch it. I will have to check and see if the version they showed on Encore was the same.
I’ve always wondered, is he homosexual? Because I thought you would have to be to take that role, especially in 1975. He has not done anything like that since, though. I thought he was good in Hunt For Red October.
Finding relief that I am not the lone FReeper who loved this movie. Perhaps not the movie so much as the fun singing and dancing with strangers!
Oh h*ll yeah.
It was the midnight show at the theater in Georgetown for years. When we had reached a certain level of incoherence, and there was nothing else going on, that is where we ended up. But I have said too much.
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