{"id":96765,"date":"2026-01-11T23:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/96765\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:53:07","slug":"the-rocky-horror-show-studio-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/96765\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rocky Horror Show | Studio 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s\u00a0delirious and oddly touch-a-touch-a-touch-a-touching spoof of science-fiction and horror B flicks\u2014a mix of satire, rock &amp; roll and anything-goes queer sensibility\u2014 didn&#8217;t last long in its 1975 Broadway debut, but it spawned a film that became the fairy godmother of all midnight movies and\u00a0attracted a rabid cult following that continues to this day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/oh-mary-director-sam-pinkleton-on-comedy-truth-and-the-right-kind-of-wrong-053025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Pinkleton<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/theater\/oh-mary-broadway-review-cole-escola\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oh, Mary!<\/a>) directs the musical&#8217;s second Broadway revival for Roundabout Theatre Company; British heartthrob Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast) stars as the show&#8217;s strutting, lingerie-clad &#8220;sweet transvestite&#8221; antihero: the alien mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter, whose version of Frankenstein&#8217;s monster is a blond muscle boy. Supporting casting has not yet been revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s\u00a0delirious and oddly touch-a-touch-a-touch-a-touching spoof of science-fiction and horror B flicks\u2014a mix of satire, rock &amp; roll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7746,44857,7743,2526,9,11,10,7744,905,21118],"class_list":{"0":"post-96765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-event-type-plays-shows","9":"tag-featured-lgbt-featured","10":"tag-featured-theater-featured","11":"tag-good-for-good-for-locals","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-price","16":"tag-theater","17":"tag-theater-musicals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96765","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=96765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}