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From: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai)
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Subject: Re: Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 20:07:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 20:07:57 1985
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Summary: 

>> From: Alan Greig <CCD-ARG%dct@ucl-cs.arpa>
>> Can anyone mail me a summary of the audience participation bits from this
>> film. .....
>From: Anne Marie Quint {/amqueue} <quint@RUTGERS.ARPA>
>    There is now available an album of Rocky Horro, complete with
>audience responses, recorded at the 8th street Playhouse in Manhattan.
>I do not know what it is like, nor how widespread it is, or whether 
>it is stereo or mono. I do know it was remixed. I do not yet have the
>money to buy it.
>

I got the album for $10 (Can.) at a boxing day sale.
It is a planned and rehearsed "performance" of audience participation.
(by the way , it's called "The RHPS Audience Particip-(SAY IT!)-ation Album", 
a double-disc set)
If you want to learn more about the participation bits, this is a good source.
However, it doesn't even begin to compare with actually being there.
For one thing, many of the lines were shouted exactly in unison by the audience,
and there are relatively few 'ad libs'.  Most of the visually-cued
lines were left out. (e.g. "kick the tire please", "rope please" )
The mixing was not good; the sound track was stereo but parts of it
came out mono, and sometimes there seems to be an echo (from the screen?).
If you don't have the sound track you might think of buying it, but if you do
and you're not exactly a fan, well, convince a friend to buy it so you
can look at the script that's on the record sleeves!

 In article <203@hyper.UUCP> brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) writes:
>              ...      RHPS was sheer delight as a film
>until it was destroyed by the audience participation.
>		-- SKZB
Well, Mr. Brust, one person's meat is another's dioxin.  
There are certainly some of us who think that audience participation 
enhanced our enjoyment of the film.
And PLEEEZZ , don't let's start another bout of discussion on whether 
this is GOOD or BAD! :-}

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Henry Chai 
Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto
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