A straitlaced, square couple, seeking shelter from a storm, find themselves in the castle of a transgender alien mad scientist intent on creating a buff bodybuilder.
Director: Kenny Ortega
Stars: Laverne Cox, Ryan McCartan, Victoria Justice, Staz Nair, Tim Curry, Adam Lambert, Ben Vereen.
Jeff Mortensen ... assistant choreographer
Tony Testa ... co-choreographer
Watched online, ok print.
No songs in the Soundtracks, plenty onscreen.
I'm not a fan of this show (meaning The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), 6-, IMDb 7.8 at the time); I have NO idea why the low IMDb rating for this version. (It's 3.6/5 on Amazon, while the original is 4.6/5.)
This one goes meta, showing an audience interacting with the film as they do at midnight showings. Then at one point the movie is onstage instead (and switches back to projected again). Not sure why they show RiffRaff and Magenta as the only audience for part of the stage show; this is while RiffRaff is holding a loaded guitar/laser at Frank; they should be in the castle.
I think LC did a splendid job as Frank (see poster), and how nice to have a trans woman playing a trans alien. TC took the narrator/criminologist role, and BV was Dr. Scott (in a wheelchair, but he sang). Seems like AL was onscreen less than Meatloaf in '75. Everyone's performance was fine to me.
Rated 4.3 (6,105)
Fox & more, dir. Ortega; 6
