Rocky Horror

[OliviaM]

Not sure hoe you all feel about this, but a local high school (yes HS) is putting on the play and we are planning to attend. I have a green lab dress, pearls, pink gloves, fish nets and heels. Do the make up and panties with garter belt. So while it is not really going all fem, it's pretty close and the wife goes with me. We have done this before and it is always fun. I am really dying to see how a HS does this. Would pictures be OK??


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[SilverLady(SO)]

Would pictures be OK??

Yes, but with the proviso that they fully conform with our rules for the photo gallery . . . which means their content and weekly upload limitations.


BTW, your topic was moved from the A Day In The Life Of A CD/TG sub-forum because that section is reserved solely for mini-diary/blog topics and this topic does not meet those requirements.


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[Eileen (SO)]

A High School is doing this as a play? No wonder kids are all messed up. OK, I'm a prude or whatever. It does seem that any normal (by normal, I mean no gender identity issues) child today is seen as the outcast. Besides, the Rocky Horror Picture Show was intended for mature audiences only, not 15 year olds.

Eileen

[Requal Jo]

I agree that this show should be for mature audiences Eileen however the year 10 (15 year olds) have been performing it at school rock concerts for years in Australia.

Hope you have an enjoyable evening Olivia. Look forward to the photos.

[Anthony Simon]

I remember seeing this in London when it was new. I was maybe 20 and the audience was full of people my age and younger. I think it's not that far from what kids do on Halloween in the US. I mean it's got that dressing up thing. And then it deals with CDing and being gay - but not in a way that seems beyond the average teen, at least not in my opinion.

[edit] Actually it was a 70s continuation of the "swinging 60s" thing in London - i.e. when permissiveness came in here. I think it was aimed at primarily the youth culture element of that here. Like it's a "fun romp", rather than a "serious treatment".

[OliviaM]

The kids did a great job and were very talented. The costumes were not as daring as the movie or an adult play. I think the adult directors did a good job of toning down the more sexual nature of the lyrics. In the 70's Eileen is right about aiming for mature audiences, but today the kids are able to see things much worse in regular movies and cable. Rocky is almost tame in comparasion. I am not saying it's right, but they are exposed to more at an earlier age. It is a classic coming of age story. There is no cursing, glorifying teen pregnacy, or attacking religious beliefs (Grease, Footloose). It doesn't celebrate alternative lifestyles, but shows they exist and says be tolerant. It was good fun and I was the only audience member in costume. When the kids saw me after the performance they were really excited. I got hugs, high fives, a lot of awesome, and pictures(all on their phones). I have two pictures by myself and trying to figure out how and where to post them.

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[OliviaM]

Thank you for info and will give it a try.

[Kelly]

Well I don't know if the kids these days are all that aware. When the 'Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" movie came out none of the kids outside appreciated my towel.

Kelly

[Eileen (SO)]

Well done, Kelly! Good comedy is timeless and doesn't have to sexually explicit to be funny. while RHPS was very risqué at the time of release, doesn't mean is it is less so because worse can be found elsewhere.
When I first saw Rocky Horror, or Clockwork Orange, we knew we saw something not meant for us. Voyeurism into the adult world that we were not quite part of yet. The difference between then and now is that in my youth, there was a separation between adult content and entertainment for minors. The excuse that kids have access anyway, absolves parents of any responsibility.
There are so many plays and musicals to choose from, why something that is by popularity is still considered a cult type movie.

Eileen

[OliviaM]

Hey Kelly. I do agree that risque is risque anytime. I also agree that we knew what w

[OliviaM]

Not sure what happened. We knew what we shouldn't be seeing. But today they can see real porn with the click of a mouse and I think this makes RH tame. I wish it weren't so and it doesn't mean parents should just give up, but more exposure to sexual things mean more monitoring and talking and RH is not that bad and can lead to good discussion. Why it was picked? In speaking to the director (maybe middle to late thirties), she was a super RH fan and really wanted to do it. Before you say anything, that did not make me happy. But the kids were talented, they had a good time, and it was a fun night.

[Kelly]

I think there is something that just sticks about movies.

Sometimes it is a line. 'Hurray for Captain Mustard', 'you can't handle the truth', 'what we have here is a failure to communicate', 'of all the gin joints in the world'. The memorable line has little to do with the story.

Sometimes it is the sound track. The Graduate, Close Encounters of the third kind, Space odyssey, Big Chill, White Christmas. Cimagraphically, these are dated; but, the music is just as great today as ever.

RHPS is unique in that it turned into an audience participation event. And it morphed, IMHO, into something that has little to do with any particular theme (as if such a campy script has a theme) into lets just be silly as possible, pretend the absurd, and don't forget the squirt gun. This has been a hellofalot of fun for a real long time. I'm sure the cast of this production had fun as did the audience; its almost guaranteed.

Theater allows for one to do or say something that is not accepted anywhere else. Consider the court jester. Maybe the kids in the crew recognized the opportunity be really risky, probably the astute ones did. I'm betting its just a chance for them to be raucous.

That is the point behind my earlier comment about a different (bad) movie. The purpose for being involved in the event, my have little to do with the actual background of the show.

In any event the purpose of youth is to push on a boundary. (How, as a group, they all manage to find the same boundary is something for the sociologists to figure out, but that is another question.) Doing RHPS is really a pretty safe way to do it, without any idea what or why; they just got to dress up funny. The enthusiasm seen at the production is fantastic. Some of those kids will remember the production as a high point in their life.

I'm glad they have that memory. I'm glad you had a good time; albeit, for another reason.

Kelly.