The Rocky Horror Show (Audio only) Live at the Belasco Theatre, New York 3 14 75
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2017
- The Rocky Horror Show -
Live at the Belasco Theatre, New York 3-14-75
This is a recording from March 14th, 1975 of the (very short-lived)
original run of The Rocky Horror Show at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway.
It was taken from a 1/4" reel-to-reel tape kept by one of the sound
engineers at the Belasco. The show opened on March 10th, 1975 so this was
one of the first few performances. It features Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter,
Richard O'Brien as Riff Raff, and Meat Loaf as Eddie/Dr. Scott along with the
rest of the cast from the Roxy Theatre.
Disc One:
Track 1 Welcome To The Show Tonight
Track 2 Science Fiction/Double feature
Track 3 Damnit janet
Track 4 Narrator
Track 5 Over At The Frankenstein Place
Track 6 Sweet Transvestite
Track 7 The Warp
Track 8 Dialogue - Creation Scene
Track 9 Sword Of Damocles
Track 10 Charles Atlas Song
Track 11 Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)
Track 12 Charles Atlas Song (Reprise)
Track 13 Bedroom Scenes
Track 14 Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me
Track 15 Once In A While
Track 16 Eddie's Teddy
Track 17 Planet Schmanet Janet
Track 18 You're A Hot Dog
Track 19 Rose Tint My World
Track 20 Don't Dream It, Be It
Track 21 Wila And An Untaimed Thing
Disc Two:
Track 1 I'm Going Home
Track 2 The Death Of Frank & Rocky
Track 3 Super Heroes
Track 4 Science Fiction/Double Feature (Reprise)
Track 5 Sweet Transvestite (Company Bows)
Track 6 Time Warp (Reprise) (Company Bows)
Belasco Popcorn Girl: Jamie Donnelly
Brad Majors: Bill Miller
Janet Weiss: Abigale Haness
Narrator: Graham Jarvis
Riff Raff: Richard O'Brien
Dr. Frank-N-Furter: Tim Curry
Magenta: Jamie Donnelly
Columbia: Boni Enten
Rocky Horror: Kim Milford
Eddie: Meat Loaf
Dr. Scott: Meat Loaf
The people in the audience dont know how lucky they are to be seeing this show with tim curry onstage back then. Some people would give their right arm for the privelage! Including me, that's for sure.
Or their left t!t
@@fransherrie8052 or their third leg
im “some people”😩
Done. Ill be seeing you soon for that arm
@@fransherrie8052 as a trans man yeah totally both of course
For all you non-bootleg-afficianados who are complaining that this isn't a video:
Handheld video cameras didn't even become a "thing" in any sense of the word until about 1977, 2 years after this show opened. The only video that COULD even be out there would be silent 8mm or super 8mm, and it would only be very short clips, since 8mmcamerascould shoot for maybe 10 minutes max per reel.
As a collector of musical theatre recordings from the 1960s and 70s, we're lucky that even AUDIO exists of shows that ran this short of time.
Thank you, that eases my frustrations of not being able to see it, still a shame I couldnt ever see the og live :(
Sadly true
Ive seen the movie so much i just close my eyes and see the movie with a new soundtrack.
That would be 2 years after the *movie* released. It was *4* years after the show opened in 1973, not '75.
@@_veronica_r I mean 2 years after this Broadway production opened in 1975. The original stage production was 73, but as the date in the title of this video shows, the Broadway transfer wasn't until 1975.
I'd sell my soul to have a video of Tim's Frank live on stage. Only hearing his wonderfully lecherous voice here while wanting to see what the audience is laughing about is torture. If only they knew how lucky they are.
Sadly, I don’t think there’s a live recording of the original London, Roxy, and especially the Off-Broadway cast (the last which flopped).
@@HaydenOnMC I believe the only difference is that O'Brien is back as Riff Raff.
ua-cam.com/video/KXeKKVzvOnU/v-deo.html
They know Now
@@HaydenOnMC I don't know each of the casts exactly....London, NYC, LA
it's interesting to me that the other casts are named by city but in LA it's by that club
....when did Meat Loaf come on?
God, I love UA-cam. Getting to hear an extremely rare recording like this, and for FREE, is such an amazing privilege! We are so very fortunate.
Listening to this makes me feel like a baby inside some woman's tummy, I want so desperately to come out and have a look at the stage, but I wasn't born yet.
This is so strangely accurate
It would be so cool if a recording of the original 1973 London play existed.
There is a recording.
Nathan McClain where?
www.amazon.com/Rocky-Horror-Show-Original-London/dp/B0000032OA
Nathan McClain thank you Nathan but I thought you meant there was a visual too
Emily D Well, if there would be, I think the quality would be rather bad
Tim steals the show omg, his voice is just incredible
Compared to every other version of this show I've seen and heard, what makes this original production work so well is the almost manic intensity and campiness. Even the "serious" parts don't take themselves seriously, so it's all just one big rolling gag that the audience is allowed to join in on. It's just a ton of fun, and it flies by. And yeah, Tim Curry is amazing.
I LOVE hearing a young Richard O’Brien as well! He has an amazing presence on stage. Gives Tim curry a run for his $ I think.
@@user-dy2te6xf6gRichard O’Brian’s voice for Riff Raff is one of the most iconic parts of the original cast. As much as people try, no one can replicate his voice, or acting.
Lucky people ! 😭 I'd give anything to see Tim Curry as Frank live on the stage
01. Intro 0:00
02. Science Fiction/Double Feature 0:22
03. Ralph and Betty's Wedding 3:54
04. Dammit, Janet 4:33
05. A Strange Journey 7:07
06. The Blowout 8:22
07. Over at the Frankenstein Place 9:31
08. Arrival at the Castle 12:01
09. Sweet Transvestite 15:07
10. Undressing Scene 18:35
11. Time Warp 20:36
12. Laboratory Scene 24:36
13. The Sword of Damocles 29:25
14. No Way To Behave On Your First Day Out 32:18
15. Charles Atlas Song 33:47
16. Hot Patootie 35:40
17. One From the Vaults 38:08
18. Charles Atlas Song (Reprise) 38:27
19. Bedroom Scenes 39:54
20. "If" and "Only" 43:43
21. Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me 46:32
22. What Was Over? 48:54
23. Once in a While 50:01
24. Great Scott! 52:37
25. Eddie's Teddy 56:28
26. His Destiny is in the Bag! 59:35
27a. Planet Schmanet Janet 1:00:16
27b. Planet Hot Dog 1:02:21
28. It's Not Easy Having A Good Time 1:05:04
29. No Picnic 1:07:40
30a. Rose Tint My World 1:08:38
30b. Don't Dream It, Be It 1:11:20
30c. Wild and Untamed Thing 1:14:33
31. I'm Going Home 1:16:01
32a. Say "Goodbye" to All of This, and "Hello" to Oblivion 1:19:15
32b. Riff-Raff and Magenta Return to Transylvania 1:21:28
33. Super Heroes 1:22:45
34. Science Fiction/Double Feature (Reprise) 1:26:03
35a. Curtain Call 1:27:18
35b. Time Warp (Reprise) 1:28:08
Vamporilla Thank You
Rawlou Films - No problem!
God bless you kind soul
Amazing! Thank you ♥️♥️
Hearing Sweet Transvestite before Time Warp is so weird lol
"You're a hot dog, but you'd better not try to hurt her, Frank Furter."
Magenta says that line seven times, and yet it feels like she said it one hundred times.
Just se ven? Omg lol
Seven*
@@nikkimdz Actually, if you want to count the times before she was just singing it by herself (after Rocky sang the line), then she sung that line ELEVEN times!
why did she go on for so long 💀
You know, after all this time, it's weird to go back and hear a Rocky Horror production without the audience callbacks.
I was too young to see this play, but i got to see him two years in a row when he toured LA after his albums came out. The Roxy was the biggest thrill, we were front row and i touched his shoe, he was that close. Love you Tim
“People would give there 2nd arm or theirs 3rd leg to be here” HAHA that line should have been used in the film
I think she says "A lot of people would give their right arm for the privilege"
OMG-when Meat Loaf comes in with Hot Pettutie he just SOARS and TEARS the show in half....AMAZING
SUPER High energy and POWER
It's the song that most overcomes the lack of sound quality.
shame he was incredibly biggoted.
I’m really enjoying the audience laughing at all the little gags you tend to not notice so much after your hundred or thousandth watch. These folks were watching it when it was new and fresh. The energy is so high and Un self conscious it’s almost a punk kinda vibe
I wish they made a Broadway Cast Recording of the Roxy Cast Album. The orchestrations here are fantastic. It’s probably never sounded as big and lush since, even in the film. Plus we would have a good recording of Richard Obrien’s original Riff Raff. The audiences that attended those 49 Broadway performances don’t know how lucky they were to have seen Tim Curry strut up the aisle like Mama Rose in heat!
It's so amazing to hear the crowd laughing so hard, seriously I picture them rolling on the ground and knocking on the floor with their fist Because it sounds like they are laughing so hard
It's amazing to think that they didn't know how lucky they are to be watching this,
He's lucky! I'm lucky! we are all very lucky!
This fulfils one of my wishes: to have heard Meatloaf doing both Eddie *and* Dr. Scott (or should I say, Dr. Von Scott?).
And it's totally different from every other portrayal I've heard.
Definitely worth it when he sings about Eddie.
I feel like it's such a privilege to have at least heard this production, I can only wish I had seen it.
Thank you to whichever lovely soul uplaoded this absolute gem of a time capsule.
What I wouldn't give to go back to 75 and see Tim in Heels, Fishnets, and a Corset 😔✌️
Frank's entrance at 15:03 if you're wonderin'.
Magenta: WhEn Do wE ReTuRn tO tRaNsYlVaNiA?!?!?!?! Frank n furter: oh my god lol
Oh my, I really wanna hop into a time machine to only see this play 😍
How bout a time warp whoooooooosh!
If only time travel existed!! This would be the first thing I’d see!
Everyone in the crowd were very lucky to be here some people would give their right arm for the privilege
your lucky?! HES LUCKY! SHES LUCKY! IM LUCKY!...were all lucky!
I wish that I could go back in time and sit in that audience watching it🤩‼️
I love watch this 1975 interview with Tim Curry, the closest get to seeing him then. ua-cam.com/video/G5sTIGLo79g/v-deo.html
Me too, oh my goshhhh
....back to that time.....
I saw the Rocky horror show last night for the first time and it was amazing! I so wish I could go and see it back in 1973/4 with Tim Curry
I love watch this 1975 interview with Tim Curry, the closest i get to seeing him then. ua-cam.com/video/G5sTIGLo79g/v-deo.html
Going in October for a midnight showing and I’m beyond excited!! I LOVE the movie so much!! Also I wish that I could do that too 😢
the audience experience with the movie was WAY better back then....beyond amazing
This is absolutely incredible to hear! Thank you to the uploader! To give everyone a bit of context and a history lesson, RHS was a phenomenon in London where it began on the wave of some of the more subversive musicals in history (Hair, etc.). It moved to Los Angeles and the Roxy Theatre, which was another birthplace for some of the most era-defining art and music of the 1970's. Shortly after filming the movie, the show opened on Broadway. "The Great White Way" was an appropriate name at the time and nothing like Rocky's other homes. It was well before the audience participation and Broadway wasn't getting the return business the show had seen elsewhere. Perhaps most unfortunate was the fact that for the ill-fated Broadway production, the Belasco Theatre was heavily renovated from one of the true architectural jewels of NYC theatre world to something almost unrecognizable entirely for the purposes of the show. This greatly offended a lot of Broadway's benefactors and they responded by kicking the pedastal it had fought hard to crawl atop out from underneath the show. Worse yet, Tim Curry - as the star and symbol of this whole show - was feeling the real crush. By then, he was already understandably wanting to move on to the next role, hoping he wouldn't end up typecast and trapped in Frank, doing the show past its expiration date. All this led to a quick closure and cast a dark cloud on the show just as the film was getting ready to unspool worldwide. As most of us know, it was an absolute flop at first and it took quite a while for the audience participation to grow organically and spread like wildfire around the globe, so for a long time the Broadway show was the personification of the show's inability to grow and it was a terrible memory for all involved. They thought it was the end. Of course, it was just the beginning, but the same people that thumbed their nose at it on Broadway continued to do so when the midnight screenings started and few of them in the "theatre world" that several of the actors wanted to break into ever took it seriously. That's a hard success to celebrate. They had no idea what greatness they were seeing and the entertainment history being made before them.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! GOD when Tim comes in a sings Sweet Transvestite! His voice!
I love watch this 1975 interview with Tim Curry, the closest get to seeing him then. ua-cam.com/video/G5sTIGLo79g/v-deo.html
Fml I just noticed the wordplay during Janet-Frank bed scene
Janet: "I was saving myself"
Frank: "well I'm sure you're not spent yet"
I first thought it just meant being spent or tired for the night.
i still dont get it... o.0
@@firedevil8733 She was saving her “Money” which she hasn’t “spent” and Frank is going to withdraw some of that “money”😂😂😂 read between them lines🤣 and if he already withdrew money he’s finna make a whole bank account
@@outcognito_2398 hahaha ok i see. xD
Abigale Haness is a BEAST. Listen to her belt at 1:24:06. I wish that she had done more. (She was a prolific back up singer.)
I just love the light and shade in Tim's singing.. he was just brilliant.
I still am amazed each time i hear him sing Im going home. One of The most beautiful voices in the world
stating the obvious, Mr. Curry owns the role of frank-n-futer. Full stop.here, he crushes it and is the standout. No one should be surprised.
totally agreed
Takes me back! 16 days later saw this at a matinee performance, while on a high school theatre trip from Chicago.
Tim curry in the 70’s OOF
I love watch this 1975 interview with Tim Curry, the closest get to seeing him then. ua-cam.com/video/G5sTIGLo79g/v-deo.html
This is wonderful!!! I’d kill to be able to time travel to see this live back in the day, but this will have to do lol!
It's crazy how much better Meatloaf is than the whole cast combined. Tim Curry is definitely second. Thanks to whoever shared this, it is pretty amazing. Not one person in that crowd realized what they were seeing at the time, I'm sure. I would have loved to see it, though I was only 7 then.
I just knew 'I'm Going Home' would sound just as glorious.
This cured all of my depression the second i clicked on this.
I love you poster ❤️
if anyone who saw the play wants to brag to me about it and tell me every single detail they can remember of that performance they're so damn welcome, please.
I didn’t see the play but I saw him twice when his tour for his albums at the Roxy. I actually went back stage with some other girls and got an autograph. Biggest thrill of all
"THEY NEEEEVERRR LIKED MEEEEE!!!"
He says it the exact same way in the movie...love it.😂
I love it! The dialog is just to die for! It is a bit unfortunate though, it appears that the tape cut out just before the Charles Atlas Song... I was enjoying Frank's rant about his insulting, uninvited houseguests.... 😁
Rant?? Now I’m excited😂
@@outcognito_2398 It's around minute 33:00, when Frank asks Brad and Janet their opinions of Rocky.... ;)
@@amybradley4083 Oh man I don’t know how I missed that😂 do you know what he said after “uninvited”? I couldn’t quite hear him after that
@@outcognito_2398 I think it's: "... sitting there like some sort of extraordinary..." and then it cuts out... :(
Thank you for uploading this so we could hear it, it makes me a little sad I dont know what they're laughing at though.. and even sadder that I could never have seen Tim Curry on stage as Frank n Furter :(((( this and some images are all that is left of his original theatre performances of this and I couldn't see any of it in my lifetime😭😭😭😭 its so sad
The Narrator is Graham Jarvis, who would play Charlie Haggers, on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", in 1976-1977.
Graham's English accent came easily, because he grew up in Toronto, Canada, at a time when many shows on CBC radio (and later, TV) had characters with English accents. If you hear certain accents a lot in your formative years, it's easy for you to imitate them.
oh, how I wish there was photage of the show !
Lol the people in the audience absolutely dig franks character
In over at the Frankenstein place the riff raff solo is sung so well
It's so great being able to listen to the original stage show like this having only ever seen the movie before. Going to see the current stage production tour in a couple of months and can't wait!
Who typed in rocky horror show 1973 and saw this one from 1975
I love how fast eddies teddy is here! I always wanted the song to be a fast song!
''You better believe it, fatso!'' was absolutely HILARIOUS to hear from Frank, its very on character too!
This is amazing, such a shame there's no video of any of these shows :(
I love watch this 1975 interview with Tim Curry, the closest i get to seeing him then. ua-cam.com/video/G5sTIGLo79g/v-deo.html
Happy 50th birthday, RHS 🎉
the fact that im laughing with the audience even though i cant see it because i remember the parts 🤣
Thank you sooo much!!!! I love it!!!!
Thank to upload it
Thank you so much for this, it’s amazing!!
omg thank you for uploading this!!!!
I need to confess I listen to this twice a day. It's so addictive
Thanks for uploading this, it was a real treat!
I was barely out of high school when a musician friend told me about the this wild, goofy-campy London musical play, that was now at the Roxy in West Hollywierd [sic]. I bought the vinyl copy of the Roxy cast recording, which I really liked, but ruined it for me when the movie came out as I liked Lou Adlers version better. And yes I would give my left...well I so would have liked to have seen the Roxy show. While Tim Curry is always the big standout, I thought that cast had some really excellent vocal performances all around.....except for Richard O'Brien's.
(sorry Richard but I really liked Bruce Scott's better)
HOLYGAWDDAMNHOLYCRAP!!!!!! I am all a vulture bumps to this!!!! Science Fiction sounds like Helen Kane singing!!!
Brilliant. Thank you for sharing.
❤Yesss just somehow now found this upload. I needed a new (...well old) version. I love it.
so sad that there aren't videos of him acting as frank n furter in theatre
Tim Curry is that spicy.
I love this version of Wild and Untamed Thing!
agree
lmao it's a bit weird without the callbacks of the audience, i love it!
the only an actual recording of this production exists is that it was probably recorded for archival purposes and is in the nyc public Library archives
Amazing to hear that Tim sang it just like in the film, but every other theatre rendition ive seen sing it different (worse) like they miss out rhe "wooah!!" Before "blue skies!"
Essential bit, that. And only tim did it, apparently. No other frank performance has ever even come close.
David Bedella does a good job I think
Columbia's solo in this is to die for
1:03:34 This is literally me washing the dishes dancing with the plates and the towels🤣🤣🤣 and my mom be like “👁👄👁”
Nice. Kim Milford on Track 9 Sword Of Damocles. Nice! Great posting!
Note the slightly different lyric, referring to "a magazine advert", in "Charles Atlas Song".
Come on! someone please find some hidden film of the original cast production :(
👌👌👌
Shame they didn’t use the Rocky here for the movie, especially with the voice dub and singing parts cos Rocky speaking adds so much more to it
I thought this was video, not just the audio. I'd like to have seen the production, not just listen to it, great as it was.
ThEy NeVeR lIkEd Me!
Was there a '73 UK tour beofore coming to the states? I wonder which was the first video recorded performance of the play?
Rocky Horror originally played at West End, London in 1973. Then it was brought to the US and played for a while at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles. Afterwards they moved to Broadway for a short time (the show wasn't a success).
They cut Brad's part for There's A Light, plus some dialogue, but still, EXCELLENT!!!
any IA to improve and add subtitles to this?
How come science fiction reprise isn’t on the Roxy cast cd?
Thank goodness Planet Hotdog wasn't as long in the movie. :P
I'm assuming if we could SEE it, the visuals would make it work and not be as monotonous as just hearing it is
That Abigale Haness as Janet? And who plays Brad?
Nathalie Wood Bill Miller
Rocky talks on the stage but only sings in the movie
55:32 29:13 25:39 33:39 15:03 26:44 1:12:08
Where can I find the actual live performance? Please, I really need this in my life right now😢
Doesn’t exist. Handheld recording wasn’t a thing till ‘77 I believe
....So if they'd shot the "Picture Show" by this point, I find it interesting that they didn't adopt the modifications the film made to the narrative (moving Frank's entrance to AFTER "The Time Warp") and the lyrics ("The Charles Atlas Song") for the Broadway production. As evidenced by the fact that the play's script officially adopted the changes shortly thereafter, they surely must have realized how much better it worked.
For starters, the movie was probably still being edited in early March. Also, this was still a "current" play. They're not responding to a "revival" or film that's gained popularity over time. I love that this production follows the original.
41:00
1:20:17 I like this death better than the movie one😆
It’s strange hearing it without call outs. 🤣
It's better without them, the shows been ruined by that. I saw the UK revival in the early 90s when it was still a little darker than the panto type productions they shove out now. It has lost its darkness, which is critical to it for me
@putnam 1953 Exactly! And the fact that you cannot get the rights to put on a production of RHS, even an amateur production has also ruined it. They keep the performance rights locked while there is a tour going on to maximize profit, this show now runs to just drain money from the 'fans' of only they could see an original, dark, production.
@@BusesGoSlowTV I didn't know that about the rights. Are you certain, as I definitely see productions being done... usually in October. But agreed about how all the subversive, dark elements have been removed from the productions. Bloody tragic.
What do you mean by dark?
Surprised it’s not Nell and Patricia as Columbia and Magenta. I always thought they were the OGs
29:13 "wrong one" did i hear that correctly omg
No I think he said “Broadway”😆
1:06:10😂
Isnt there a video for it?
Video wasn't invented yet, back then...another few years to go.
@@mellisande638 well, silent portable video cameras which could record for this long... 'video' is a stretch
Is it Jamie Donnelly or Patricia Quinn as Magenta?
Jamie Donnelly
Ihaaaaaaaaaaaa♥️♥️♥️♥️🩸
shit, is Riff Raff Richard? I didnt know he was in this 🙂
He did create the broadway show in the first place.
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I do not like this Science Fiction Double Feature. Even the original Patricia Quinn version has some form of sticking to the beat, and it wasn’t near as annoying
Richard was the singer in the movie, not her. It's just her lip movements. I don't think Patricia as amazing as she was to watch as Magenta can sing very well.
Vixx Celacea However, it IS Patricia Quinn singing Science Fiction, Double Feature on the 1973 original London cast recording. IMHO you both are right - while Patricia Quinn isn’t the best singer, the tempo and phrasing of her version isn’t all over the place like this version here.
I think that was the joke. She's deliberately being unprofessional. As others have already pointed out, she's being a ditzy, giggly, somewhat shy usherette fangirling so hard that she can't even keep a tune.