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Nov 7, 2015 · Jim Sharman is going through a bit of a time warp. Sharman, 70, is a celebrated theater and opera director in his native Australia with dozens of productions to his credit.
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Jim Sharman. Director: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Jim Sharman spent much of his young life at the circus, where his father and grandfather ran a travelling boxing sideshow. Taking an interest in theatre, he attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1966. Sharman became interested in directing experimental theatre. While directing the Sydney production of Hair ...
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Jim Sharman was born 12 March 1945 in Sydney, Australia, as James David Sharman. He spent much of his young life at the circus, where his father and grandfather ran a travelling boxing sideshow. Taking an interest in theatre, he attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1966. Sharman became interested in directing ...
Sep 29, 2021 · Charles Gray died at the age of 71 on March 7, 2000. From Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon to Barry Bostwick and Meat Loaf, we look in on stars from the 1975 cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Apr 27, 2010 · April 27, 2010 by Mike Gencarelli Leave a Comment. 2053 likes. 2137 followers. Jim Sharman is best known for directing the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”. The film became a midnight screening sensation. 2010 marks the 35th anniversary of “RHPS”. Movie Mikes (and some help from “RHPS” uber-fan Dave Picton) was able to ...
James "Jim" Sharman is a director and writer for film and stage with over 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, but is probably best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the film's follow-up Shock Treatment.
This is the first time Sharman is actually paid to direct, and he gets fifty dollars—the equivalent of a few hundred today. And then—like the sombre notes of something else again—he thunders his way into Don Giovanni. It is produced by the Elizabethan Trust Opera, and stands as a major landmark in Sharman’s career, and in the history of ...
