When | Where | Directions | Cost | Disclaimer | Rules | Props | About the Show | Movie Storyline
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WHEN?
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Saturday nights at 11:30pm. If we're ever not performing for any reason, we'd have it posted on the front page of this site. Pre-show usually starts at about 11:45pm and normally includes videos from Mango Video, but preshow always includes a special introduction by our preshow hosts and devirginizations of the first-timers. The movie/show starts at about midnight or a little after and the show runs until about 2 or 2:30am.
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WHERE?
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The Beach Theatre at 315 Corey Avenue in St. Pete Beach, Florida 33706
(By Jamie:) The Beach Theatre is privately owned with a real stage and it is a great single screen house, hosting independent and specialty films. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is rated R, so an of-age guardian is needed for those too young to pose for Hustler. The best news of all: THE THEATRE SELLS BEER AT THE CONCESSION STAND!!! I'm not joking, but you still gotta be 21. Any questions on why we want to perform there?
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DIRECTIONS:
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We have a link below where you can get directions through Yahoo! Maps, but if you prefer human directions, here you go. Take I-275, to the 5th Ave. N. exit (exit # 11B) and go west (which means turn right of you're coming from north of there). If it's easier for you to get to 66th street north, then go south on 66th and pick up on the directions below at the 66th street part. If you need directions from any other place, please use the Yahoo link below for directions. After the 5th avenue north exit, drive until you get to 66th street north where you turn left. It will quickly veer to the right where it turns into Pasadena Avenue. Pasadena Avenue will take you into St. Pete Beach without having to pay any dumb tolls. You'll keep going until after you cross the bridge and then the first light is Boca Ciega where you take a left. You'll see a funeral home (called "The Beach Memorial") on the left at that intersection, so you can't miss it. The very next light is Corey Avenue and you turn right. Now look for the strange people crowded out front and park. You can even park in the funeral home parking lot if you want to. If you don't trust our directions, call the theater at (727) 360-6697 or visit their website, The Beach Theatre, and get the theatre's directions.
Yahoo Maps: Get Yahoo's directions
Yahoo Maps' image of location
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COST:
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$5.00 to get in, but they sell beer, so bring more cash to get hammered if you're 21 or up. You'll want to also bring a dollar for a prop bag so you can have stuff to throw along with everyone else and you may want to bring some extra money for tips for the poor cast members who desperately need props to use for the show since almost everything we have is made ourselves or donated. (We make no money from doing this show.)
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DISCLAIMER:
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First of all, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) is an "R" rated movie. This is very important since it may not be suitable for kids. The movie itself has sexual situations and only one word of profanity, but the show is almost all profanity and we thrive on sexual situations and try to incorporate them into every scene. We run around in underwear and fishnets and there is a lot of adult content.
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RULES
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RULE #1 : Don't f*ck with the hair!
RULE #2 : Don't f*ck with rule #1!
RULE #3 : Don't f*ck with the cast and/or crew, unless of course, we specifically ask you to, and believe us, we will!
RULE #4 : Drugs & Alcohol: Drugs are not allowed in the theatre, but alcohol is served at the concession stand!
RULE #5 : Concessions. While manymay believe that theatres make their money off of ticket sales, they really make it off of the concession stand, so go buy some stuff so we can keep performing here.
RULE #6 : SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX!
RULE #7 : Please don't throw things at the screen, it's expensive and it doesn't like it. Please don't throw things at the cast, we're cheap and WE don't like it.
RULE #8 : This is an audience participation movie - So participate damn you!.
RULE #9 : Have fun, that's what you f*ckin' paid for.
RULE #10 : MAKE NOISE!!!!!
(While these are the rules, our preshow people may at any time edit, change, mutilate, forget, or just plain make up new ones as they goes along. Don't expect too much of them. We don't.)
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PROPS:
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Props are a big part of the "participation" aspect of a Rocky show. Here are the props that can be used in the order they're used in.
**RICE - Rice is tossed during the wedding scene of Betty Monroe and Ralph Hapschatt after "Lips." Lightly lob the rice, do not PELT the rice! (We include a handful in our prop bags, but you can always bring more!)
**NEWSPAPER - put on your head along with Janet during "There's a Light" when she's walking through the rain (we include a page in our prop bags for you).
LIGHT - A lighter or flashlight can be used during "There's a Light." Wave them around in the air in time with the music, but remember to shut them off when you hear, "...in the darkness..." Also, BE CAREFUL NOT TO SET YOUR NEWSPAPER ON FIRE!!
SQUIRT GUN - Squirting a squirt gun has been traditionally used to simulate rain during Brad and Janet's song, "There's a Light."
**PARTY HAT AND NOISEMAKER - Wear the hat and blow the noisemaker along with the Transylvanians during Frank's lab speech. Then use the hat later during the birthday song during dinner.
**RUBBER GLOVE - wear and snap it several times along with Frank during the lab scene... or blow it up and make a balloon out of it... we don't care.
**TOAST - Throw during dinner scene when Frank says, "A toast...", but please don't eat it!
BELL/KEYS - Ring your bell or keys when Frank is chasing Janet and says, "...did you hear a bell ring?"
HOT DOG - Thrown (lightly) during "Planet Schmanet, Janet" when Brad, Dr. Scott ad Janet are saying, "You're a hot dog..." They are messy and not that necessary, but if you must bring them, THAW them at least! The actors are to be frozen, not the hotdogs.
**CARDS - Towards the end of the movie, during "I'm going Home," you'll hear Frank sing, "Cards for sorrow, cards for pain..." Throw the cards then. (We include about 4 in our prop bags)
** Included in our prop bags (if we had time to make them), so bring an extra dollar for one! First come first serve with the prop bags, so get there as close to 11:30pm as possible, if not before.
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ABOUT THE SHOW:
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THIS IS AN AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION SHOW. That means you will be encouraged to yell and scream and... (uh-oh)... participate. Basically, we play the actual movie on the movie screen and act it out at the same time. We have costumes that we've made up and we've practiced our parts about a zillion times to get them right. If you've never been to a show, you're what we call a "virgin" (sorry, that's just the way it is). No amount of describing will explain this, so you'll just have to come to a show and see what it's like. This is not a "sit down" movie, we want to see you in the aisles doing the "Time Warp," (everyone else will be in the isles, too, so you won't be the only one), yelling A.P. (Audience Participation lines) and having a great time. A.P. lines vary from cast to cast so you'll really have to attend OUR show a couple times to learn the ones we yell out, but for example, everytime you hear "Brad Majors," you yell out "A**hole!" and "Slut!" when you hear "Janet Weiss."
Background: Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 movie, so people have been doing this show since about 1980 and over time, they began to use props during the show like squirt guns and newspapers. Sal Piro, the RHPS fan club president, has written a book "Creatures of the Night" about how everything started with RHPS and he's included an excerpt on the RHPS web site (www.rockyhorror.com) about it if you would like to read more.
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MOVIE STORYLINE (By Jannie):
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Brad and Janet are two "wholesome" kids that get engaged and decide to go share the news with their good friend and old science teacher, Dr. Everett Scott. Their tire gets a flat so they walk in the rain to a castle they saw on the way. Riff Raff, a butler, meets them at the door. Magenta (a maid and Riff Raff's sister) makes her odd entrace sliding down a banister yelling that everyone's lucky. Riff and Magenta push Brad and Janet into the ballroom where a bunch of white-faced weirdos are doing "The Time Warp". This is a very self explanitory dance that any idiot can do . . . wait I take that back. Then they back themselves out of the room only to bump into Dr. Frank N Furter, the master of the castle where he sings "Sweet Transvestite" wearing thigh high fishnets, 5" heels and a tight black corset. He then has Riff and Magenta remove Brad and Janet's clothes and invites everyone to join him in his lab upstairs. Brad & Janet are undressed and taken upstairs where they watch Frank create Rocky Horror (a muscle man) in his lab. I won't tell anymore because I don't want to spoil the movie, so you must come see what happens. A word of caution... many people get obsessed with this movie and have tendencies to try out for cast and spend the next few years of their life in . . ."Absolute Pleasure."
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