The Rocky Horror Show

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
Category: Music

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Format: Cast Recording
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 766486298323
EAN: 0766486298323
ASIN: B00004W4YU

Release Date: 2000-12-08

The Rocky Horror Show

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Tracks:

Science Fiction/Double Feature - Jamie Donnelly
Dammit Janet - Abigale Haness, B. Miller
Over at the Frankenstein Place - Abigale Haness, B. Miller
Sweet Transvestite - Tim Curry
Time Warp - Jamie Donnelly, Boni Enten, Graham Jarvis, Bruce Scott
Sword of Damoclese - Kim Millford
Charles Atlas Song - Tim Curry
What Ever Happened to Saturday Night - Meat Loaf
Charles Atlas Song (Reprise) - Tim Curry
Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me - Abigale Haness
Once in a While - Abigale Haness, B. Miller
Eddie's Teddy - Meat Loaf
Planet Shmanet Janet
Planet Shmanet Janet (Continued) - Tim Curry
Rose Tint My World - Tim Curry, Boni Enten, Abigale Haness, B. Miller, Kim Millford
I'm Going Home - Tim Curry
Super Heroes - Abigale Haness, B. Miller

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Album Description

25th anniversary reissue of the original Roxy cast recording of the notorious musical that inspired the cult film of the same name. New sleeve notes by Nick Drake biographer Patrick Humphries. All the classics including 'The Time Warp'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

THE Definitive recording of this musical.......2005-02-25

The Rocky Horror Show - not The Rocky Horror Picture Show (that's a film, folks, not a live musical)- is the best recording of this whacky and fun musical. It doesn't have the same cast as the film (though Tim Curry and Meatloaf are in it). So what makes it better? I'll tell you.

Rocky Horror is a visceral experience. Even though the film was widely panned by the press and the public upon its release, it was a much slicker version of the stage musical. Songs were rewritten. Dialogue was gussied up. Costumes were more professional. Sets were much more detailed and static. The experience of the live show was necessarily changed - no usherette - just lips.

The film stands on its own as a hugely wonderful experience. However, it is a different experience than the musical. But that could be said of every one of the live versions when compared to the film. So let's not use the film as a comparison...

The Roxy Cast of RHS is just awesome. It's a little honky tonky in the music provided. Janet is more raspy and less delicate than most other versions of her. Tim Curry has never sounded better. Meatloaf plays both Dr. Scott and Eddie (which is typically the case in the live show). Kim Milford as Rocky gives us a more truly 1970's version of what a hunk was - and he sings exceedingly well (he was the lead singer for the Jeff Beck group for quite a while). Then there's the really emotional numbers like "Once in a While" and "Superstars". Those two will rip your guts out with the sheer emotion. In fact, that's probably what sets this version apart from all others. So many people know RHS for what it became, but when this cast took it up, it was brand new to the U.S. and you had some really awesome stage actors adding real emotional input to the roles, music included.

Get this soundtrack -because it is THE defnitive recording of the show! You'll love it.

Heresy, but the singing on this cast album is even better.......2004-05-23

I originally picked up the original cast recording of "The Rocky Horror Show" when I got the four-CD set that had this, the soundtrack for "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," "Rocky Horror International: A Collection of Rocky Horror Tracks from Around the World," and "Songs from the Vaults: A Collection of Rocky Horror Rarities." If you have not heard the Mexican Cast singing "Un Relato Bien Extrano y Muy Pasado" or the Norwegian Cast doing "Alltid Lys Hos Frankenstein," not to mention Little Nell's "See You Round Like a Record" or Tim Curry's "Just," then you need to track these down. But this one will be the easiest to find besides the film soundtrack.

Tim Curry plays Frank N. Furter while Meatloaf does double duty as both Eddie and Dr. Scott, which means you get a nicely sung version of "Eddie's Teddy." Those who had the movie memorized long before they get to this album will be surprised to see that "Sweet Transvestite" comes before "Tim Warp," and that Brad (Bill Miller) has a really great song called "Once in a While." This would be his counterpart to "Toucha Toucha Touch Me" by Janet (Abigale Haness) and my favorite song on the album (Barry Bostwick did record it for the movie and it appears on "Rocky Horror International," but it is not half as good as Miller's version).

This is a high energy production and you can tell from the moment Jamie Donnelly, who plays Magenta, starts ripping through "Science Fiction/Double Feature." This continues through "Dammit Janet" and "Over at the Frankenstein Place." Fans of the film will also be happy to find versions of "Planet Schmanet Janet" and "Hot Dog/Frankfurter," which provides all the narrative links between "Eddie's Teddy" and "Rose Tint My World." At the end Brad, Janet and the Company sing "Superheroes." The rest of the Roxy cast consists of Bruce Scott as Riff Raff, Boni Enten as Columbia, Kim Milford as Rocky, and Graham Jarvis as the narrator.

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