The Rocky Horror Show [Original London Cast] [Rhino]
Various Artists - CD
- Artist: Various Artists
- Format: CD
- Year: 2001
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 081227079222
- Item Number: RHI07922
- Release date: 01/29/1991
- 1. Science Fiction - Double Feature
- 2. Damn It, Janet
- 3. Over at the Frankenstein Place
- 4. Sweet Transvestite
- 5. Time Warp
- 6. Sword of Damocles
- 7. Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)
- 8. Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch Me
- 9. Once in a While
- 10. Rose Tint My World
- 11. I'm Going Home
- 12. Superheroes
- 13. Science Fiction/Double Feature (Reprise)
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The Rocky Horror Show [Original London Cast] [Rhino] by Various Artists on CD
When Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show opened on June 19, 1973, at the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre in London (the British equivalent of off-, or rather off-off-Broadway), it looked and sounded as though he had written it while simultaneously listening to David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and watching a 1950s horror/science fiction film festival. O'Brien grasped the essence of the then-popular glam rock style -- that it was old-time rock & roll dressed up in androgynous costumes and makeup -- and he mixed that understanding with a fascination for the cheap genre movies that Hollywood and England's Hammer Studios ground out for drive-in consumption, an appropriate source at a time when '50s nostalgia was another popular trend. Thus, the briskly paced, intermissionless 90-minute show told the story of an all-American couple, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who become engaged and take a car trip to visit the science teacher in whose class they met. Encountering a rainstorm and a flat tire, they stop to ask for help at a mysterious castle where they meet Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist and transvestite who has just finished assembling a man in his laboratory. The conventional turns of the horror film plot are replaced by sexual initiation (the subtext of those old movies). It's all buoyed along by O'Brien's clever musical pastiches of rock & roll, including a dance song, "Time Warp," a longing for the good old days, "Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)," and, most memorably, the song that introduces Frank-N-Furter, "Sweet Transvestite." Part of what makes that song so striking is the performance of Tim Curry. Curry throws himself into the part, mixing Dr. Frankenstein and Dracula with Joan Crawford and Mick Jagger in a bravura performance that turned out to be indelible. The cast album, featuring a five-piece band, is a rudimentary affair, but the performances are enthusiastic. The score and Curry proved an immediate draw, and The Rocky Horror Show became a long-running hit in London, racking up 2,358 performances in a series of converted movie houses before it finally moved into the Comedy Theatre in the West End and ran another 600 performances. By then, of course, largely due to the movie version, the show had become an international phenomenon. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
- Artist: Various Artists
- Format: CD
- Year: 2001
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 081227079222
- Item Number: RHI07922
- Release date: 01/29/1991
- Label: First Night
- Genre: Stage & Screen, Stage & Screen, Stage & Screen
- Style: Show Tunes, Musicals, Cast Recordings
- Album Time: 37:14
- 70, Girls, 70 [Original London Cast]
- After the Ball (Original London Cast)
- Annie Get Your Gun [Original London, Paris & Australian Casts]
- Aspects of Love [Original Cast Recording]
- Barry Manilow's Copacabana
- Bashville [Original London Cast]
- Belle or the Ballad of Dr. Crippen
- Billy Elliot [Original London Cast] [Bonus CD]
- Bombay Dreams (Original London Cast Recording)
- Buddy Live: The Buddy Holly Story Live
- Cats [Original Cast Recording]
- Cats [Original London Cast Recording]
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Original Cast Recording]
- Cranks [Original London Cast]
- Crooked Mile
- Daddy Cool: The Musical
- Destry Rides Again [Original London Cast]
- Destry Rides Again [Original London Cast]
- Divorce Me, Darling! [Original London Cast]
- Doctor Dolittle [London Cast Recording]
- Edward Scissorhands [2006 London Cast]
- Expresso Bongo/Irma La Douce (Import)
- Fiddler on the Roof [Original London Cast] [Bonus Tracks]
- Follies: A Broadway Legend
- Good Rockin' Tonite!
- I and Albert [Original London Cast]
- Kat and the Kings [32 Tracks]
- King and I/Golden City Plus
- Lady May (Import)
- Les Miserables [Original London Cast Recording]
- Les Miserables [Original London Cast] [Highlights]
- Love from Judy [Sepia]
- Mamma Mia! [2008 Deluxe Edition] [CD/DVD]
- Mamma Mia! [Original Cast Recording]
- Mamma Mia! [Original Soundtrack]
- Marguerite
- Mary Poppins [Original London Cast Recording]
- My Fair Lady [Original London Cast] [Bonus Track]
- Nightingale [Original London Cast]
- Nine [London Concert Cast Recording]
- Nine [London Concert Cast Recording]
- Parade [CD/DVD]
- Pull Both Ends [Original London Cast]
- Sail Away (Original London Cast Recording)
- Shakespeare Revue
- Starlight Express [Original London Cast] (Import)
- Street Scene [Original London Cast]
- Street Scene [Original London Cast]
- Summer Song [Original London Cast]
- Sunset Boulevard [Original London Cast] [UK] (Import)
- The Amazons
- The Card [1994 London Cast Recording]
- The Pacific Overtures [Original London Cast]
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show [Original London Cast]
- The Secret Garden [Original London Cast Recording]
- The Sound of Music [Original London Cast]
- The Woman In White [Original Cast Recording]
- They're Playing Our Song [Original London Cast Recording] [That's Entertainment]
- Trelawny (Original 1972 London Cast)
- Virtue in Danger
- We Will Rock You
- We Will Rock You: Rock Theatrical [Bonus Track]
- Wedding in Paris / Can-Can (Original London Casts)
- Where's Charley?/Chrysanthemum (Import)
- Whistle Down the Wind [Original Cast Recording]
- Zip Goes A Million (Original London Cast Recording)
- Highlights from Evita (Original Broadway Cast)
- Highlights from Evita (Original Broadway Cast)
- Valmouth [DRG]
- Little Me [London Cast]
- Carmen Jones (Studio Cast Recording) (Highlights)
- Oliver! [Original 1960 London Cast] [2002 Universal]
- Highlights from the Phantom of the Opera
- The Boys from Syracuse [Original London Cast] [Bonus Tracks]
- Evita [Original Broadway Cast] [Highlights]
- The Wizard of Oz [1988 London Revival Cast] [Highlights]
- Side by Side by Sondheim
- Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert
- Fix [Original London Cast]
- Les Misérables [Original London Cast Recording]
- Gypsy [Original London Cast]
- Jesus Christ Superstar [20th Anniversary London Cast Recording]
- Jesus Christ Superstar [Highlights: the 20th Anniversary London Cast/RCA]
- Crazy for You [Original London Cast]
- Evita [Original London Cast]
- Only the Lonely: The Roy Orbison Story
- Miss Saigon [Original London Cast Recording] (Import)
- Les Miserables: 10th Anniversary Concert (Import)
- Legally Blonde: Original London Cast Recording
- Fix [Original London Cast]
- A Saint She Ain't
- The Witches of Eastwick [Original London Cast]
- Mary Poppins [Original London Cast Recording]
- Charles Dickens' Hard Times, The Musical [Maxi Single]
- Gigi (Original London Cast)
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Original London Cast) (Import)
- Charlie Girl [1986 London Revival Cast]
- Annie Get Your Gun (Original London Cast Recording)
- Rage of the Heart
- Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Original London Cast Album)
- Some Like It Hot: The Musical (Original London Cast)
- City of Angels [Original London Cast Recording]
- A Slice of Saturday Night [Original London Cast]
- Hot Mikado [Original Cast Recording]
- Five Guys Named Moe [Original London Cast]
- Off the Wall
- Only the Lonely: The Roy Orbison Story
- Crazy for You [Original London Cast]
- Oklahoma! [1980 London Revival Cast] [Madacy 1993]
- Belle or the Ballad of Dr. Crippen (Import)
- Summer Song [Flare UK]
- Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure of Your Company
- The Buccaneer [Bonus Tracks]
- The Water Gipsies [Original London Cast]
- Salad Days [Bonus Tracks]
- The Jazz Train [Original London Cast] [Selections]
- The Pajama Game [Original London Cast]
- Grab Me a Gondola [Original London Cast]
- Free as Air [Original London Cast]
- Irma La Douce [Original London Cast]
- Bless the Bride [Original London Cast]
- SDTK : MAKE ME AN OFFER
- Once Upon a Mattress
- Original Cast
- Evita [2006 London Cast Recording]
- Aspects of Love [Original Cast Recording] (Import)
- Mamma Mia! [Original Cast Recording] [5th Anniversary Edition]
- Mamma Mia! [Original London Cast] [CD/DVD]
- Oklahoma! [1980 London Revival Cast] [Jay 1997]
- ONCE ON THIS ISLAND: LONDON CAST RECORDI
- Metropolis [Original Cast]
- Noel and Gertie [London Cast]
- The Pajama Game [1996 London Studio Cast]
- Nunsense [Original London Cast]
- They're Playing Our Song [Original London Cast]
- Lady in the Dark [Original London Cast]
- Thomas & The King [Original Cast]
- Pal Joey [1980 London Cast Recording]
- Snoopy [Original London Cast]
- Original Cast : I'm Getting My Act Together & Putting It
- Personals [Original Cast Recording]
- Original Cast : The Baker's Wife
- Let Him Have Justice
- Dames at Sea [1989 London Revival Cast]
- The Wizard of Oz [1988 London Revival Cast]
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show [Original London Cast] [Original Masters]
- Lock Up Your Daughters (Original London Cast)
- Vanity Fair [Bayview]
- Miss Saigon [Original London Cast Recording] [Highlights]
- Off the Wall
- Starlight Express [1993 London Cast] [Polydor]
- Sunset Boulevard [Original London Cast]
- Saturday Night Fever [London Cast]
- Step into the Limelight
- SOUNDTRACK/CAST ALBUM : SOME LIKE IT HOT
- Rocky Horror Show: Soundtrack/cast Album
- Moby Dick: A Whale of a Tale
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Original London Cast)
- Charlie Girl [1986 London Revival Cast]
- Rage of the Heart
- Moll Flanders [Original Cast Recording]
- Slice Of Saturday Night The 6: Soundtra
- Slice of Saturday Night [First Night]
- Rage Of The Heart: Soundtrack/cast Album
- Bless the Bride [Original London Cast]
- Les Miserables: 10th Anniversary Concert
- Oklahoma! [1998 Royal National Theater]
- Taboo [Original London Cast]
- Take Flight [Original Cast Recording]
- Love from Judy [Sepia]
- Starlight Express [Original London Cast]
- Song & Dance [Original London Cast]
- Tell Me on a Sunday [2003 London Revival Cast] (Import)
- Starlight Express [Original Cast Recording]
- The Music Man [Original London Cast]
- Singin' in the Rain [1984 Original Cast]
- The Music Man [Original London Cast]
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Performers:
- Count Ian Blair - Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Acoustic)
- Dennis Cowan - Guitar (Bass)
- Jonathan Adams - Vocals
- Little Nell - Vocals
- Malcolm & Chris - Vocals
- Martin Fitzgibbon - Drums
- Paddy O'Hagen - Vocals
- Patricia Quinn - Vocals
- Phil Kenzie - Saxophone
- Richard Hartley - Organ, Piano
- Richard O'Brien - Vocals
- Tim Curry - Vocals
- Credits:
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