{"id":11190,"date":"2015-10-23T06:05:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T13:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2015-10-19T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T18:09:20","slug":"the-rocky-horror-show-returns-for-halloween-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/10\/23\/the-rocky-horror-show-returns-for-halloween-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rocky Horror Show<\/em> returns for Halloween fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the success of last year\u2019s staging of The Rocky Horror Show<\/i>, local group Rebel Knock Out Productions decided to make it an annual event. The cult classic musical tribute to sci-fi and horror B-movies has been staged since 1973; Atomic Vaudeville\u2019s Britt Small is directing this production.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re starting with the foundation of what we had last year,\u201d says actress Candace Woodland, who plays Columbia in the show, \u201cand our director is making it funnier, making it tighter, and because we\u2019ve already done it, we\u2019re able to really focus almost on each individual line of the show and perfect it. Sarah [Anne Murphy, choreography] is definitely building on the choreography; she\u2019s got a lot of us doing more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The audience participation factor is one of the most defining features of the Rocky Horror <\/i>cult following, with fans wearing costumes, bringing props to the performances, and shouting lines in response to the actors.<\/p>\n

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Looks like Victoria has a new Halloween tradition with The Rocky Horror Show<\/em> (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere are all these call-outs that the audience seems to just know; at different points in the show you yell different things at the actors,\u201d Woodland says. \u201cSometimes we have a show where it seems like everybody is yelling, and other shows it seems like most people are quiet. It\u2019s cool because as actors on stage we get to meet that energy. If we have a really rowdy audience we can also be really rowdy. It\u2019s the most inclusive theatre I\u2019ve ever done. It feels like the audience is another character in the show. We have to really pay attention to how they\u2019re feeling, because they\u2019re so involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

While not all of the props traditionally brought to film screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/i> (the movie adaptation of the play; audience members are known to bring movie-related items to screenings) are appropriate for a stage performance, Rebel Knock Out Productions has a solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we can include that atmosphere that exists in the movie showings, we sell prop kits that include instructions on how to use the props, and a variety of props that are show-friendly. As an example, you blow up a balloon during the first song and pop it when the narrator says the line \u2018and worlds collide,\u2019 so it\u2019s this huge sound of the whole audience popping a bunch of balloons.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not already a fan, don\u2019t let that dissuade you:\u00a0Woodland confesses she had never heard of Rocky Horror<\/i> before her audition, but she, too, has fallen in love with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually like telling my story, because I\u2019ve had a lot of people come up to me after last year and say, \u2018I\u2019ve never seen the movie,\u2019 or, \u2018I didn\u2019t like the movie,\u2019 \u2018but I loved the show,\u2019 which is really cool because I don\u2019t want it to be an event you can only go to if you\u2019re already a fan of Rocky Horror<\/i>. It\u2019s actually really neat to be introduced to such a cult classic when it\u2019s a live show, because it\u2019s almost identical to the movie, but you\u2019re there, and when you\u2019re saying the call-outs, you\u2019re yelling at the actors, the actors are yelling back at you, and it\u2019s really interactive, which is just this whole new level of awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rocky Horror Show
\n<\/i>Thursday, October 22 to Saturday, October 31
\n$30, The Metro, 1141 Quadra Street
\nrkoproductions.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the success of last year\u2019s staging of The Rocky Horror Show, local group Rebel Knock Out Productions decided to make it an annual event. The cult classic musical tribute to sci-fi and horror B-movies has been staged since 1973; Atomic Vaudeville\u2019s Britt Small is directing this production. \u201cWe\u2019re starting with the foundation of what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-21-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11192,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions\/11192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}