The Rocky Horror Show - Producer's Welcome
We’re going to get serious here for a minute. There's the secret about The Rocky Horror Show that nobody else will tell you, and which upon hearing, will suddenly allow you to understand its popularity. Ready? The show is a tragedy. Sure, it's also a comedy, and a sexually-explicit and raunchy musical with B-Movie acting, but - above all - a tragedy. It is cruel, and poignant, and (spoiler alert!) innocent people die along the way. In short, it is a morality play; abuse and exploit people and you, too, will fall from grace.
The fact that it has catchy music, overt sexuality, and copious amounts of humor infuses it with energy and emotion that carries you through the story, and stops you from getting stuck on the occasional little bit of murder or cannibalism. Although there’s clearly the message that you *can* go too far (okay… so maybe dividing someone’s brain in two to create a sexual slave may cross the line…), the louder message is that it’s more than okay to be you and celebrate the real you. Don’t dream it, be it, you wild and untamed thing, you!
The fact that it has catchy music, overt sexuality, and copious amounts of humor infuses it with energy and emotion that carries you through the story, and stops you from getting stuck on the occasional little bit of murder or cannibalism. Although there’s clearly the message that you *can* go too far (okay… so maybe dividing someone’s brain in two to create a sexual slave may cross the line…), the louder message is that it’s more than okay to be you and celebrate the real you. Don’t dream it, be it, you wild and untamed thing, you!
- Jenny Boynton and Katie Wickes