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As in, The Rocky Horror Show, comes to the Oh Canada Eh? dinner theatre next week as a fundraiser for AIDS Niagara
Posted By JOHN LAW REVIEW STAFF WRITER
There was a time “The Rocky Horror Show” was forbidden to Meaghan Chapin. But come Wednesday night, she’ll be the one doing the time warp in garters.
“It’s going to be an adventure,” says the 21-year-old North Bay actress who’ll play helium-voiced hellcat Columbia. “I haven’t seen it. My father wouldn’t let me watch it when I was a kid.”
Dad has respectfully declined his invitation. As has her grandma. Some shows, you love seeing your family in the audience. Others … well, it’s best they stay away. Lest they see their sons and daughters prancing around in high heels and underwear.
Thirty-five years after it debuted in London, England, Richard O’Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show” is still an acquired taste. Unruly, bizarre and often incomprehensible, it’s also a decadent party for both patrons and performers.
The Oh Canada Eh? dinner theatre began staging the show six years ago as a Halloween fundraiser for AIDS Niagara. The first production was crude, with actors performing scenes next to video images of the cult 1975 movie.
Now, it’s a full-blown production with an elaborate set and a live band performing the tunes. Almost every show sells out, raising more than $25,000 for AIDS Niagara.
As always, cast members for Oh Canada Eh?’s regular show do a tour of duty with “Rocky” come October. Many return year after year. Others, like Chapin and 24-year-old Jean-Francois Grenier of Montreal, are getting their first taste of the campy classic. (more…)
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