{"id":377095,"date":"2026-10-19T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377095\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:26:09","slug":"margaret-cho-to-succeed-rachel-dratch-in-the-rocky-horror-show-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377095\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Cho to succeed Rachel Dratch in &#8216;The Rocky Horror Show&#8217; on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Frankenstein Place! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/margaret-cho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Cho<\/a> will make her Broadway debut as the Narrator in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/43905-the-rocky-horror-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rocky Horror Show<\/a> on Broadway at Studio 54 starting November 3. Tony Award-nominated original cast member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/rachel-dratch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dratch<\/a> will play her final performance November 1.<\/p>\n<p>Cho is a Grammy and Emmy Award-nominated comedian and actress whom Vogue named one of the nine best female comedians of all time. Her recent TV and film credits include Fire Island, I Want Your Sex, Dying For Sex, The Flight Attendant, Hacks, Percy Jackson and The Olympians, and two Netflix is a Joke comedy specials including Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>In Rocky Horror, she joins  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/jake-shears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Shears<\/a> as Frank-N-Furter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/lorna-courtney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorna Courtney<\/a> as Janet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/kevin-mchale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin McHale<\/a> as Brad, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/amber-gray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Gray<\/a> as Riff Raff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/jimin-moon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimin Moon<\/a> as Rocky, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/george-salazar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Salazar<\/a> as Eddie\/Dr. Scott, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/sherie-rene-scott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sherie Rene Scott<\/a> as Magenta, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/valentina\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valentina<\/a> as Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s cult classic musical that inspired the hit 1975 movie, is currently booking on Broadway through February 28, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/43905-the-rocky-horror-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rocky Horror Show tickets<\/a> now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Frankenstein Place! Margaret Cho will make her Broadway debut as the Narrator in The Rocky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-377095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}