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ROLE: None (Door Dude)
LOCATION: Clearwater, FL
BIRTHDATE: December 23, 1967
OCCUPATION: Whatever pays the rent
HOBBIES: Music, Leathercraft, Collecting 80's Hair Metal one hit wonders, Collecting decks of playing cards
HOMEPAGE: http://www.myspace.com/bigmike2112
E-MAIL: Just Say NO To Spam
ON CAST SINCE: Just joined as of 12/05 but have been performing since the mid 80's as Eddie.
PREV CASTS: No Name Cast, Baton Rouge –1985 to 1989.
OTHER: Impromptu performance on a "One-Time-Only" basis in Carbondale, IL – 1991 due to the regular Eddie getting arrested. I'm also the owner of Cherokee Productions D J Shows and have an
extensive background as a lighting technician and audio engineer.
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| .: BIO :. | Written July 15, 2006 |
Where do I start? I first heard about the Rocky Horror Picture Show
when I was about 12 or so. This was 1979 or 1980. As a 12 year old, I
wasn't fully understanding of the concept of guys in fishnets and
lingerie but I wanted to see what it was all about. I asked my mother
if we could go but you know how the story goes….not no but HELL NO
Lets skip forward in time….2 years later….So, I'm an impressionable
14 year old and I still want to see what all the hype is about. The
show is getting bigger. More and more of my friends have been to the
show. I'm hanging around with a 15 year old with a driver's license
and access to a car. Lets call him Kevin for lack of a better name to
use (time and the years of drug use have put me well overdrawn at the
memory bank. Now, "Kevin" has an even older brother who is willing to
get us our tickets as long as we give him money for beer. I'm cool
with it and toss him a 5 spot plus the cost of the ticket. Now, mom
still doesn't want me to see this movie. I pull off the usual scam
that me and "Kevin" and some other friends are going to go see
something stupid, an old Steve Reeves movie if I'm not mistaken
(Hercules was playing at the drive-in). Mom's cool with it and gives
me extra money for food and drink. We piled in the car and "Kevin's"
older brother stopped by the liquor store for the beer. We then went
to the theater. Immediately, I was mesmerized by the spectacle on the
stage and the screen (the half naked women didn't hurt) and I knew I
had to be a part of this.
I scammed my way in quite a few times over the next couple years,
learned the Time Warp, and a lot of call back lines, but stopped
going in 1983 when my family moved out of Baton Rouge. Finally, 1985
comes around and I'm 18. I found out that Rocky Horror had moved from
the Cinema 8 at the mall to a 4 screen house in a not quite as nice
neighborhood. This place was called the Robert E. Lee. I started
going and fell in love with Rocky Horror all over again. I had grown
my hair out long and was being accused of being Meat Loaf on a
regular basis. This prompted me to start learning his part in the
movie. I got the dance down and knew all the lyrics to Hot Patootie
and would act it out in the back while the usual Eddie was performing
on the stage. One night, I was approached by one of the regular
performers who asked me to fill in for them since no one showed up to
play Eddie for that show. I was nervous as hell but I pulled it off
fairly well and was asked to come back on a regular basis. Now, this
was a very loose-knit cast with very little structure. We didn't have
a name and if you showed up dressed as any particular character, that
was your part for the night. Multiple people dressed as the same
character was settled with a simple game of Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Lucky for me, not many people ever wanted to play Eddie.
I performed with them for about 3 years. I moved to southern Illinois
at Christmas 1989 and was unable to find anywhere showing Rocky
Horror on a regular basis, so, I put my costume away. I only broke it
out one time when I found out the movie was being played at the
Student Union at the university in Carbondale on Halloween night. I
went and was standing in line for my ticket with some friends who
were dressed as various characters when this Tim Curry clone
approached me and asked if I knew the Eddie part. I told him yeah but
I hadn't done it in years. He said that was good enough and asked me
to perform since their Eddie had been arrested earlier that day for
an unknown reason. I decided to go for it and all my friends got in
for free. They never showed it again in Carbondale and my costume got
lost somewhere along the way. I moved to Florida in 2002 and had
spoken to many people while trying to find Rocky Horror around here.
I finally found it at the Beach Theater in St. Pete Beach and
attended my first showing here at the 10pm Halloween show. And yes,
I've fallen in love all over again I approached Ed and Dan about
joining the cast as a crew member (the body is falling apart due to
hard living when I was younger and I doubt I'd be able to perform
ever again). Finally, after the last show of the year 2005, I was
allowed to become a member of the cast.
That's about it…check out the pictures now.
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