inspired by Rocky Horror thread. Should we go see it?

[bfeller]

We are in our 40's and have teenagers. Rocky Horror is showing at a theatre in town and wondered if we should risk taking our teens with us. We have only seen it on video. Don't think I want to dress up or bring props. I guess I want to sit back and enjoy the experience. Will we look like dorks?

[Cindy B]

Well, generally the crowd is younger teens/20 somethings..

You may get the occasional 30 plus crowd or a parent with say, middle schoolers..

But be prepared, for hearing vulgarities, interesting shadow effects with a sheet, being screamed at VIRGIN!, and well, other things...

Its wild crazy, and not for eveyrone...really you would stand out more if you DIDNT dress up or bring some props...

Props could include: water guns, rice, toast, croutons, toilet paper, newspaper, umbrella, playing cards, bells (like sleighbells), keyring, lighter, flashlight, glowstick.... there are others but that is what is coming up off the top of my head...

[alabamaalan]

I don't think this is something most parents and kids would want to view together. :p

[bfeller]

We have watched it on video. We even own it. So you think that going to see it in person would be that different?

The teens are 14 and 17.

[regi]

Seeing it in person is VERY different. The audience participation parts can be quite vulgar. I don't think I would have wanted to see it with my parents when I was a teenager.

[bfeller]

Well, I don't think that I will let my 14 year old go by herself or with friends. If she wants to see a R movie now, I am the one that will go. She is the one that really wants to see it. Am I being too overprotective for the 14 year old.

My 17 year old is a senior and I see nothing wrong with him going with friends. Or do you think it is too vulgar for high schoolers.

[Deb in IA]

Well . . . my in-laws, who are in their 70's, and FIL was a distinguished academic neurologist and chairman of his department for 23 years . . .

THEY LOVE "ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW"!!:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


(I have some pretty interesting in-laws)

They have always wanted to go to a midnight show with all the audience participation, but unfortunately, FIL now falls asleep at 8 pm, so he'd never make it . . .

[bfeller]

So maybe we are not too old to appreciate it at the theatre? I like to think we are young at heart even though the body didn't get the message.

Would still love to experience it but really need advice about the 14 year old. She loves the video.

[Saffron]

I think everyone should experience things they're interested in at least once. I went once, that was enough for me. I would not take the 14 year old. Although fun, the midnight show is for a "mature" audience. :D

[Kitty 34]

A Theater here in Michigan puts on the show every three or four years. It's a riot to see it "in person". My sisters and I have gone at least 15 times!!! We went just a month ago.:D

[Cindy B]

Well it is ver very vulgar.. its not the movie that is vulgar its the audience paticipation.

There is homosexual scenes, scenes with "machinery", and other stuff.... cannibalism jokes...if you can handle that, well thats awesome...

[kylara]

I went to Rocky Horror when I was 16 years old I an now in the 30s, and if I find out it is playing somewhere near me, I go!! The first time I went with some friends from HS and after coming home and telling my mom about it, she just wanted to check it out. So me and my friends brought her the next week. She thought it was hysterical but wasn't something she would do a lot...but having seen it, it was a lot easier to explain my being out til 3am on weekends (my friends ranged from 14 to 18 years...the entire HS gambit).

I have also seen the Rocky Horror Show live on stage (yup there is a musical version!)

The worst of the movie can be the audience part. Also, I never did props or dressed (even though I had friends in the "cast"). I usually just wore black jeans and a dark t-shirt. But I ALWAYS got up to time warp. I think whether your kids go or not depends on how open you are with them about topics of sex and homosexuality, since there is quite a bit in the movie either stated outright or alluded to.

[jldriscoll]

Originally posted by bfeller
Will we look like dorks?

Of course!!!! but that's just becuase you're the bfeller family....you'd look like dorks anywhere ;) :p :p :p :p

I love ya betty!!!

[jldriscoll]

Originally posted by bfeller
Will we look like dorks?

Of course!!!! but that's just becuase you're the bfeller family....you'd look like dorks anywhere ;) :p :p :p :p

I love ya betty!!!

[bfeller]

Hey jldriscoll, what is up with the double posts. Don't you think the Dork family can read?


OK, the main quesiton is:

If I was comfortable seeing the movie and comfortable with the scenes, would the audience participation be going a little farther than the movie?

[jldriscoll]

Seriously....I went in high school and was pretty shy and timid. Our group sat in the back of the theater and that way, even the folks participating on stage were pretty far away from us. Almost like part of the movie.

[bfeller]

But did you feel like a dork not particpating?

[jldriscoll]

Nope. There were plenty of people just watching. And the ones that were participating were doing it for themselves so they weren't paying much attention to the rest of us.

[bfeller]

Now I feel much better. Thanks for confessing that you went and didn't particpate. You are a real Ya Ya!

[jldriscoll]

you're a real dork :smooth:

[bfeller]

Takes one to know one.

[Cindy B]

I guess it was our theater... and the cast...

Anyone that was just sitting down and NOT participating, got extra water on them, pounds of rice pelted at them, and other things. Put it this way, it was not the nicey nice welcome... it was come and do!

Yes, it does go further than the movie... you have to be really really comfortable about sex, homosexuality, if you go with your kids... there is a "shadow" scene that cast members tend to push the limits, or new limits were created every week.

We also had practically topless women, and some would flash... how do you feel about that?

I probably wouldn't take my kids, but they are younger...

[helenabear]

Your cast must have been something else there CindyB! Our cast that my friends were a part of (in high school too) didn't take it any further than what you saw in the movie. My thoughts are that if you are comfortable with the movie, then you would be comfortable seeing it in person. But I must admit, if you don't participate you will feel like a dork. So dress up a little and bring a prop or two and have fun. Of course this is based off of the crowd that we had.

[bfeller]

Thanks for all the information. Cincinnati is quite a conservative town but don't know if I want to expose(literally) the kids. I am going to call the theatre and see what they say about the crowd.

Again thanks.

[jldriscoll]

you're welcome dork :smooth:

[Cindy B]

Well, I guess the cast was a little raunchy! (This was the only one I know, so I guess it could be raunchy)

We had seen wilder ones, so I thought we were tame... one in Virginia Beach.. WHEW, that one took the acting to the EXTREME..

lets say they were actually doing the deed behind the sheet....



The owner of the theater also owned some "adult" establishments in NJ, that may have been why.....