From The Boston Phoenix, Cellars by Starlight: October 9, 1997 Show tunes: Boston Rock Opera’s Rocky Horror by Brett Milano Is it still The Rocky Horror Show without the rice, toast, and flying toilet paper? Boston Rock Opera’s production of the show is faithful to the original stage play and 1975 film in all but one respect: audience members are […]
“The Rocky Horror Show” Reviewed by Derek J. McClellan for TheaterMirror.com Presented to raise money for the Aids Action Committee Directed by James P. Byrne Musical Direction by Mick Maldonado On Wednesday October 1st I caught the preview performance of The Boston Rock Opera’s production of The Rocky Horror Show. (Note: it doesn’t say “Picture Show” because they wish to […]
Krave.com Boston Style Review and Interview by Scott Chesley It’s time to add it all up, tally the score. Total the columns and take a look at where it’s really at. On this hand we have the nineties: Nirvana, Oasis, AIDS and Heroin’s latest coming out party, and … well, it kinda drops off after that. And over here we […]
STAGE REVIEW A rollicking, retro ‘Rocky Horror Show’ By Joan Anderman, Globe Correspondent, 10/04/97 Consider what’s hip: 1970’s schlock-chic, nerds who sing, jocks in skirts, and high camp, which never ever goes out of style. Boston Rock Opera couldn’t have picked a better year for a revival of ”The Rocky Horror Show,” 1974’s sci-fi horror spoof that established a new […]
Boston Rock Opera revisited this sci-fi/horror spoof — a kinky UFO tale of sexual awakenings and forbidden fruit — for two weeks in October (1997) to raise money and awareness for The AIDS Action Committee, New England’s oldest and largest AIDS service organization. The event, sponsored in-part by WBCN, was presented at the Massachusetts College of Art’s Tower Auditorium and […]