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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Message-ID: <5888@duke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 13:37:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 13:37:55 1985
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Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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In article <183@snow.warwick.UUCP> asz@warwick.UUCP (Frank N Furter) writes:
>
>>
>>I, for one, will not.  RHPS was sheer delight as a film
>>until it was destroyed by the audience participation.
>>		-- SKZB
>
>Actually it was a stage play first (presumably with audience participation).
>Perhaps you're in the wrong generation to enjoy the sheer brilliance of

My understanding of the London stage play is that there was little if
any audience participation -- except for the ushers, who were dressed in
odd, faceless costumes, and who most wandered the audience in a daze
rather then helping anyone find a seat.

>RHPS (:-)), which would NOT be the same without audience participation - it is
>essential to the whole ethos to have tthe participation.
>
>

Hey! Watch this wrong generation stuff -- I'm almost two months older
than SKZB, and I like the audience participation.

It was nice to see the tape once, though.  That way, I understand the
punchlines.  What do people who are RH virgins do now, when there are
only a few of us left who understand anything going on on the screen
(like anything the Criminologist says.)
-- 

			Charlie Martin
			(...mcnc!duke!crm)