Let's face it, there's an endless amount of dance music floating around to help us trip the light fandango, but there's only one Rocky Horror Picture Show (thank goodness...lol)
Day 6: A song that makes you want to dance
*The Rocky Horror Picture Show is considered to be the longest-running release in film history. It benefited from a 20th Century Fox policy that made archival films available to theatres at any time. Having never been pulled by 20th Century Fox from its original 1975 release, it continues to play in cinemas. After The Walt Disney Company acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019 and began withdrawing archival Fox movies from theatres to be placed into the Disney Vault, the company made an exception in the case of The Rocky Horror Picture Show to allow the traditional midnight screenings to continue.
Annual Rocky Horror conventions are held in varying locations, lasting days. Tucson, Arizona has been host a number of times, including 1999 with "El Fishnet Fiesta", and "Queens of the Desert" held in 2006.Vera Dika wrote that, to the fans, Rocky Horror is ritualistic and comparable to a religious event, with a compulsive, repeated cycle of going home and coming back to see the film each weekend. The audience call-backs are similar to responses in church during a mass. Many theatre troupes exist across the United States that produce shadow-cast performances where the actors play each part in the film in full costume, with props, as the movie plays on the big screen in a movie theatre. O'Brien's Orchestra, formerly known as the Queerios (based in Austin, Texas), is the longest running shadow-cast in Texas.
* (borrowed from Wikipedia)
How about an oldie but a goodie -- Chubby Checker "The Twist"
ReplyDeleteThe last time I did The Twist was at my oldest son's wedding and that's was 21 years ago so I guess my twisting shoes are out of shape and probably the rest of me is too! Ha!
DeleteA local theater showed The Rocky Horror Picture Show every Saturday night until the theater closed down. People would come in costume and the place went nuts through the whole show. The crowd knew all the words to every song.
ReplyDeleteMost places it has become a cult classic and the crowds go wild over the show.
DeleteAh, the Time Warp, always a fun one. My favorite is our local Mardi Gras Mambo.
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