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Rocky Horror at the Hippodrome - an-ti-ci-paaaay-tion
It’s been so long since I’ve seen it that I’ve forgotten the audience’s shout-back dialogue, but the Waco Hippodrome’s bringing in The Rocky Horror Picture Show for a pre-Halloween Oct. 30 screening. No word on whether Scott Baker and his Hippodrome crew are prepping for a post-movie clean-up of toast, rice, newspaper and more, but anyone who can handle the melon-smashing Gallagher should be able to handle Rocky Horror.
I first saw this at a midnight screening in downtown Fort Worth at which a motorcyclist drove his Harley into the theater, revved the engine, then exited - right in the middle of the movie. Then there was the screening at the late Lake Air Twin Cinema some years later in which lots of high school kids and Baylor students got their kicks by screaming the proper obscenities on cue (Oh, it’s coming back … “Brad!” “A———!” and “This is” - WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE COLOR!! - “Magenta and” - WHAT’S THE NAME OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE!! - “Columbia.”)
Though the most famous of the audience-participation films, Rocky Horror’s not the only one. There’s also an audience singalong of The Sound of Music in circulation, for which participants are encouraged to attend dressed as nuns, kids in lederhosen or as the Alps and which projects the lyrics on screen for singing. Baker tells me, though, that the rights for that film are, well, Alpine.
The newest addition to official singalongs, as opposed to the impromptu ones that sometimes pop up, is a captioned version of Mamma Mia! Universal Studios is rolling that one out next weekend in selected theaters. The closest singalongs, to my knowledge, will be at Dallas’ North Park and Cinemark Legacy theaters.
I’m guessing that audience won’t be dressed in fishnet stockings or shouting obscenities whenever Brad’s on the screen, but who knows? Maybe ABBA covered “The Time Warp” at one point in its career …
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By courtney
August 22, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
Do we know how much tickets will be?
By C.D.
August 22, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
I remember watching this at Ivy Square at Baylor in the eighties….was so much fun to go to the midnight movie….and the people in costume made it all the more fun. Take your water bottle , rice, toilet tissue and bic to participate and have fun.
By robin
August 22, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this
the Ivy Twin at Baylor, oh the memories, i worked there and many an early morning after the midnight showing we “enjoyed” the clean up after showing the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the crowds always made it the most fun - can’t wait to see it and NOT have to clean up after it