#usherette rocky horror picture show

[hotpinkboots]

i just think she's neat

Photographs were found on Pinterest and do not belong to me. The only one I made is the, "Science Fiction, Double Feature!" picture.

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #843

Debbie Harry's Muppet guitarist can be seen with a pin of the Usherette and other Rocky Horror memorabilia.

Source:

The Muppet Show. Episode 509: Debbie Harry. January 25, 1981.

"Let’s Talk-Lips." Muppet Pundit. Steve Whitmire. August 4, 2017. (Archived).

[cashthecomposer]

Another pic of me as the Usherette from Rocky Horror this past Friday!

[skellybonesart]

🎞Science Fiction/Double Feature🎟

[neil-gaiman]

Mr. Gaiman, this may not seem like a very big question but it is VERY important to me. Have you even been to a Rocky Horror Show? if not, why not? if you have, what was your favorite part about the show? (a scene, something to throw, a line to shout, etc)

I went to the original Rocky Horror Show on stage in London in 1979 -- it had just moved from the King's Road (if memory serves) into the West End. My favourite thing was watching the masked ushers dangle over the side of the balconies and boxes and clamber around the theatre as we waited for the lights to go down and the usherette to come on and begin to sing. I knew it was going to be a night to remember. (I'd been a fan of the music since about 1975 when a friend played me the original Australian cast album, and had already seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show movie on late night TV.)

[popmusicu]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: It’s origins and impact on the LGBTQIA+ community 51 years later

“The Rocky Horror Show” is the title of the original theatrical production created by Richard O’Brien. It opened for the first time in London, June 19th, 1973, at the Royal Court Theatre, featuring Tim Curry (Frank-n-Furter), Richard O’Brien (Riff-Raff), Patricia Quinn (Usherette/Magenta) and Little Nell (Columbia). I happen to own a 1987 LP re-issue of the Original London Cast Recording that perfectly conveys the shows’ low budget beginnings and Richard O’Brien’s intent of marrying sexual liberation, glam rock’s androgyny and science fiction B movies. The singer Meat Loaf would later join the cast during the Los Angeles run of the stage show and would also reprise his role as Eddie in the 1975 film adaptation of the show titled “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” alongside Tim Curry, Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn and the freshly added Susan Sarandon.

The show follows the story of newly engaged Brad Majors and Janet Weiss who decide to make a trip to visit their former science teacher Dr. Everett Scott, who inadvertently introduced them to each other during a science “exam-it” (“Dammit Janet”). These love birds had no way of knowing that their car would get a flat tire while driving on a desolate road, leaving them stranded and forcing them to walk under the rain to ask for help of whoever lives in the castle they had recently driven by (“Over at the Frankenstein Place”). Upon arrival on the castle the main couple meet Riff-Raff, Magenta and Columbia, servants of Dr Frank-n-Furter who undress them and show them around the during the most famous musical number of TRHPS: “Time Warp”, choreography included. They later meet Frank during “Sweet Transvestite” and are invited to witness his new creation, a muscular, tan, blonde man, who shares half the brain of the deceased Eddie, who show up to sing rock ‘n roll number “Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul”, only to be murdered once again by Frank. Brad and Janet both secretly cheat on each other following Frank’s advances, but when Janet finds out what Brad has done she decides to get with Rocky -the creation- too (“Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me”). Frank, now mad that his creation has been shared with Janet and because of the arrival of Dr. Scott, turns everyone into statues and gets them on a stage to perform “Rose Tint My World”, turning them back to normal only for them to jump into a pool and begin to make love to each other. Riff-Raff and Magenta show up to announce their return to their home planet “Transexual” and kill Rocky, Frank and Columbia, allowing Janet, Brad and Dr. Scott to escape (“Super Heroes”).  

Last night, June 20th, 2024, at 10 pm after Pride, I attended an interactive screening of TRHPS, 51 years after it was created. Many members of the audience came dressed as their favorite characters (I went as Frank!), the cinema provided us with props to use during the screening such as rice to throw during the wedding scenes, water guns to make it rain, confetti to throw up in the air, etc. following the now established traditions of the cult classic’s screenings. The crowd went wild shouting callbacks at the screen, everyone sang along to the songs, even a makeshift shadow cast formed at the front. It was truly electrifying!

To me, TRHPS is a landmark of LGBTQIA+ history that says we were, we are, and we will always be here - and we should have some fun and do the Time Warp while we’re at it.

-María Jesús Espinoza

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GHROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW CASTING FT. ERA V GHOULS

Frank: Dewdrop

Janet: Cumulus

Brad: Phantom

Riff: Rain

Magenta: Cirrus

Columbia: Aurora

Crim: Mountain

Eddy+Dr. Scott: Aether

Rocky: Swiss

BONUS

Copia as Trixie/Usherette

Terzo and Omega as Ralph and Betty

[drcrushers]

if anyone is wondering where i've been this spooky season, i've just closed a production of rocky horror picture show! i played the usherette/trixie (and honestly this show helped me overcome a lot of body dysmorphia and self hate). two cute photos beneath the cut.

[mattholicguilt]

okay I started reading 'the hidden oracle' and Chiron says that the Hermes cabin is in a big Rocky Horror Picture Show phase so now I NEED to know who plays what role in the Camp Half-Blood Rocky Horror shadow cast production they totally do in the camp amphitheatre

I imagine Hermes cabin is largely running the show, probably with lots of input from the Apollo cabin too. Connor Stoll is Riff Raff. Alice and Julia are Magenta and Columbia. (Rachel would also be a good Magenta. maybe Alice and Julia aren't even in the cast, but they set the whole thing up and pass out the bags of shit.)

(obligatory percy-as-rocky comment because. logan lerman. perks. you understand.) Anyway I think Rocky would be an Apollo kid. maybe Will? Chiron good-naturedly agrees to be Dr. Scott.

Jason as Frank n Furter. listen. listen. He would kill it. "wahhh Jason is so straitlaced" you wanna see straitlaced? put that boy in a corset.

Clarisse??? as?? Eddie???? I just see it. I think it would work well. she has the vibes.

Percy and Annabeth are so fucking Brad-and-Janet coded but the Hermes kids would have to beg and plead for them to participate. Maybe they barter with chores. Piper is Trixie/the Usherette at the beginning. Travis Stoll narrates.

bonus: Percy's favorite part is when everyone has their squirt guns out. the older campers always try to shoot the newer campers and he sends the water right back into their faces

[vamporilla]

Patricia Quinn as the Usherette in the original 1973 London cast of Rocky Horror.

Photo from ozrockyhorror.com

[edwardsmate4ever]

Twilight/Rocky Horror photoset series

Rosalie Hale as The Usherette

(Stage play/ RHPS2016)

[gigglefitz]

trixie / usherette icons ▻ psd used was made by me ▻ do not steal ! please like or reblog if using ! my deviant art (i make psds as a past time) : https://www.deviantart.com/gigglefitzz

[louminosus]

Quarantella #16, me and my friends virtually re-unite (God bless the green screen) singing “Science Fiction, Double Feature” from Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show of course. 

[cashthecomposer]

Me as the Usherette in Rocky Horror.

[plumbumparasol]

At the late night double feature picture show

This print is available on redbubble! Link

[inbarfink]

I mean, the thing that’s really amazing to me about the Rocky Horror Cult Phenomena is how much it fits with the themes of RHS. Like, Rocky Horror becoming The Midnight Movie and gaining this huge culture of callbacks and cosplay around it wasn’t like something anyone planned for or anything like that - it was a super-unexpected and strage and organically-grown thing and it just amazing how well it resonates with the movie itself. So many movies gain Fandoms that are kinda at Odds with What the Movie is Actually, so it’s really incredible that even with the Rocky Horror Fandom being what it is, it’s also so in-sync with the movie it’s based around in a strange way. 

Like, if you actually wanna think seriously about RHS, there are few major lenses of interpetation you can view it through: as a 70′s-style mockery of the 50′s, as a narrative about both the anxiety and thrill that comes with the changing times, as a Garden of Eden allegory starring a weird Reverse-God whose gospel is debauchery... but I think one of the biggest ones for me is how it is obviously a tribute to the experience of watching horror and sci-fi movies late at night - and the way these movies, however silly, can offer a sort of getaway from the restrictive, repressive environment of your everyday life. 

Like that is kinda what “Science Fiction/Double Feature” is literally about?

It’s about how much the speaker wants to watch a late-night screenings of science fiction\horror movies. And the verses are peppered with all of these vaugely sexual innuendos, it’s clear that this is at least part of why the speaker wants to go to the late night double feature picture show. Whatever it’s because sci-fi outfits allow for a bit more fanservice than your Regular Movies (”And Flash Gordon was there/In silver underwear”), or cause the thrills of the monsters can become strangely sexual (”And I really got hot\When I saw Janette Scott\Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills”) or just for some midnight alone-time in the back row...

And in the stage version that line is usually sung by an Usherette character which kinda makes it like... it puts another layer of reality between the audience and the plot. Like, what is seen on stage isn’t a musical abstraction of Brad and Janet’s misadventure but a musical abstraction of the experience of the Usherette (and the cinema audience played by the Actual Audience) watching a horror movie starring Brad and Janet. In the Picture Show, this is replaced with just like... a lot of intentionally kitchy transitions and editing tricks to constantly remind the audience that This Is a Movie. Because regardless of the medium, Rocky Horror is in some way about the Experience of Watching Movies.

And this also comes up when the Criminologist speculates about the nature of reality - it is actually true that life is an illusion and reality is a figment of the imagination, because he is a fictional character in a movie. And Magenta’s verse in “Time Warp”

Like, I suppose literally in-universe she’s talking about her hobby of spying up on people in the castle (like she did to Janet and Rocky in ‘Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch Me’) but like... this is also about being The Audience? Like, the Audience watching the movie are the one who are sitting invisible in ‘another dimension’ and see everything that’s going on... and are being freed by fantasy. (and also it’s important to note that Magenta and the Usherette generally share an actress on stage, and in the Picture Show, share lips but not a voice).

I think you can very easily read Rocky Horror as being About how yeah these old horror movies are cheesy and stupid but they’re also, like, a place of escape from mainstream conservative culture, where you can allow yourself to celeberate the weird and transgressive. Even if it’s kinda bittersweet under the conditions that this transgressiveness always has to come from Monsters and Aliens, and that it was to always Obviously Be Bad, and it must be Defeated and Destroyed at the end - as both the protagonists and the audience must return to the daytime world of normalcy.

Even with Magenta kinda being the Usherette, I think the comperison between Brad and Janet and the Audience is a bit more important. They’re the one who transition from the everyday daylight world of social norms into the late-night world of transgression and release that is Frank’s Fantastic FuckCastle. I mean, that’s why they have so little agency in the plot, they are mostly just sitting back and watching the events unfold. That’s also why Brad seems to have adapted the “Dr. Frank N. Furter did nothing wrong” position by the movie’s climax (”What’s his crime?”). It’s kinda like he’s not really viewing him as a real life person within his own reality, but like a fictional villain. Which is also how Frank views himself - as we can see at the end of “I’m Going Home”. From an in-universe perspective, it seems like a delusion. but from our perspective he is 100% correct. There IS an audience of people watching that entire show unfurl and cheering for him. 

Basically yes I am saying Frank N. Furter is himself’s, Brand and Janet’s Problematic Fave

And then when Frank dies and the Servant Duo beams back to their home planet, it’s explictly not a triumphant moment. It’s not a moment of heroism or any sort of moral victory for normalcy over transgressivism. Like, Frank and Riff-Raff share a lot of the same rotten personality flaws - it’s just that Frank is confident and flamboyant about them while Riff-Raff is resentful and self-loathing. That’s part of why Columbia and Rocky had to die, to drive home the fact that Riff-Raff isn’t doing any of this out of concern for Frank’s victims or even really to go home. It’s purely about his own personal beef. And for Brad and Janet, the ending is really melancholy due to the way they have been stranded back in the ‘real world’. All of the strange characters are either dead or gone, the setting itself literally beamed off the planet. They’ve been changed by their experience, but now they’re back in this daylight world that they escaped from. Cause in the end, the Science Fiction Double Feature always ends. 

And you’ve got all of this, and then you look at Rocky Horror The Cultural  Phenomena and it’s like....... it became like the ultimate encapsulation of what it was tributing to begin with. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is THE late-night science fiction/horror movie event. Midnight Screenings carry this movie and this movie is iconic to Midnight Screenings. And it’s this place that allows you an escape from normalcy and a space to be transgressive - through shouting sexual and\or dark jokes along with everyone else in the movie theater and through being a space for experimenting with gender presentation and\or sexually provocative outfits....It really just became the extremely concentrated version of the experience it was trying to convey in the first place.

And the whole Audience Participation and Shadowcast phenomena really works to enchance the movie’s film of nonreality, which is I think Important to it. Like you know, when you’re sitting in a very rowdy movie theatre shouting profanities at the screen while a bunch of friends mimic the actors’ actions with a few cardboard props because they’ve seen the movie so many times they know them by heart - the murder and the cannibalism seems more and more unreal by emphasizing how much it’s Performance. But “Don’t Dream It, Be It” - already an in-universe Performance by the one character who knows there’s an Audience, feels just as real as ever. 

And it just, it FITS SO WELL TOGETHER, it’s amazing none of this was intentional or even predicted. It’s really just beautifully poetic that this fandom happened.