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Jun 21, 2023 · Richard O’Brien has revealed that the inspiration for his most famous creation — Dr. Frank N. Furter, the “sweet transvestite” mad scientist played by Tim Curry in the 1975 cult classic ...
Jun 19, 2023 · Richard O’Brien as Riff Raff, Tim Curry as Dr Frank-N-Furter and Patricia Quinn as Magenta in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 20th Century Fox. The audience participation that Rocky Horror...
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Richard's family moved to Tauranga, New Zealand, in 1951 when his father, an accountant, decided to become a sheep farmer. Watching horror and science-fiction double features in nearby Hamilton, O'Brien added an interest in acting to his love of rock and roll. He moved back to England in 1964, tried singing, then became a movie stuntman and fringe ...
Working again with Sharman on a production of Sam Shepard's "The Unseen Hand", O'Brien mentioned a new rock musical he'd been writing called "Rock Horroar." The play went into rehearsals as "They Came from Denton High," and at Sharman's suggestion, was retitled "The Rocky Horror Show" before opening in June 1973. The play became a film in 1975 call...
He continued writing musicals with Richard Hartleylike T. Zee (1976), Disaster (1978), The Stripper (1982), and Top People (1984). They both provided three songs for the film The Return of Captain Invincible (1983). O'Brien wrote his one-man revue Disgracefully Yours (1985) singing as Mephistopheles Smith. He also appeared in Jubilee (1977), Flash ...
Carry On Cowboy (1965) – RiderZee and Co. (1971)Four Dimensions of Greta (1972)The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – Riff RaffUnveiled at midnight on 26 November 2004 following months of vigorous debate led by the piece’s chief advocate Mark Servian, the Perry Foundation-funded and Weta Workshop designed statue’s feet finally found firm ground on the mostly empty lot of the old Embassy Theatre.
Apr 24, 2023 · Fifty years after its debut, Richard O’Brien has re-thought the legacy of his transgressive 1973 sci-fi-horror musical The Rocky Horror Show.
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Feb 2, 2024 · Vintage teenagers now, it makes Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show a particularly poignant ‘party’ that remains every bit as riotous today as it was way back in 1973. Run ends 3 February. Full tour schedule and tickets available here.
Jun 30, 2021 · Richard O’Brien (right) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Throughout his life, O’Brien’s own gender identity has evolved, in the past, he has identified as trans and for a decade took oestrogen, but now sees himself in a non-binary light.
