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Rocky Horror Show Is Back A BRAND SPANKING NEW PRODUCTION iOTA PAUL CAPSIS TAMSIN CARROLL STARRING IN MEDIA KIT www.rockyhorror.com.au PRESSMEDIA RELEASE RELEASE RICHARD O’BRIEN’S THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE ROCK’N’ROLL MUSICAL DON’T DREAM IT … SEE IT THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE ROCK‘N’ROLL MUSICAL OPENS IN FEBRUARY WITH A BRAND SPANKING NEW PRODUCTION. It’s astounding, time is fleeting and The Rocky Horror Show is back. We’re starting another sensation and we’re definitely not under sedation! A new Australian production of the much-loved Rocky Horror Show will open Sydney’s brand new Star Theatre in February 2008 and tickets go on sale on Monday 27 August. Co-Producer Paul Dainty, Chairman of Dainty Consolidated Entertainment says: “It’s a thrill to be bringing The Rocky Horror Show to the Australian stage. It is a timeless piece of theatre that has spanned decades. I know Australian audiences – both new and old fans – will love this show which stars some of our finest talents.” “This fresh production is an exciting new take on the world’s favourite rock ‘n’ roll musical. It brings together the hottest cast I have seen for a long time” commented co-producer Howard Panter, Joint Chief Executive Officer and Creative Director of the UK’s Ambassador Theatre Group. The Rocky Horror Show is an institution and one of theatre’s most endearing and outrageously fun shows. Its well-known and much-loved storyline goes something like this: Squeaky-clean sweethearts Brad and Janet knock on the door of an eerie house to use the phone after their car breaks down in the rain on a dark and stormy night. Little do they know but they’ve just walked into a convention of beings from the planet Transsexual, led by the irrepressible leather-clad sweet transvestite Frank N Furter. What ensues is a night of music, mayhem and naughtiness where fantasy becomes reality. The Rocky Horror Show made its debut at London’s internationally famous Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1973. While it’s essentially a rock’n’roll show it has also become an iconic brand and an entity unto itself which has defied the decades and continued to grow in popularity. Millions of people all over the world have seen a production of The Rocky Horror Show and sung along to classics like I’m Just a Sweet Transvestite, Damn It Janet, I Can Make You A Man, Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me, Over At The Frankenstein Place and of course The Time Warp. MEDIA RELEASE CONTINUED Rocky Horror writer Richard O’Brien wrote the musical stage show in three months and almost three and a half decades later it is still being produced around the globe. “When you do something like Rocky, which is undefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that,” says the now 64-year-old writer, creator, actor and performer. “Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon. And I have no problems with that at all. If it overshadows anything else, I can understand completely why and again it doesn’t worry me.” Why do people go and see this show? The answer is simple according to O’Brien: “It’s a guaranteed party”. Next year’s Australian production opening in Sydney will star 2007 Helpmann Award winning Actor, ARIA-nominated singer/songwriter iOTA as the outrageous Frank N Furter and the much- loved Paul Capsis pulls out his best to play Riff Raff the butler. Tamsin Carroll, recently seen in Dusty, plays the maid Magenta and is joined by award-winning singer, dancer and actress Sharon Millerchip as Columbia. Mamma Mia! star Kellie Rode plays Janet and internationally accomplished singer and actor Michael Cormick will be Eddie, with more cast announcements expected soon. The new production will be directed by award-winning director Gale Edwards whose credits include working in theatre, opera and television. She’s worked on projects as far ranging as the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, singer Delta Goodrem’s arena tour, The Boy From Oz, Sweeney Todd, Festen and Jesus Christ Superstar. Multi-disciplined choreographer John O’Connell brings a wealth of experience to the production having worked with everyone from Baz Luhrmann on Moulin Rouge and PJ Hogan on Muriel’s Wedding to the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix). The Rocky Horror Show has not been seen in Sydney for a decade and will be the debut production for the soon-to-be-opened Star Theatre, Star City. “I cannot think of a better way to showcase the Star Theatre than by opening with The Rocky Horror Show which appeals to theatregoers of all ages,” says a delighted Walter Bugno, Chief Executive of Tabcorp’s Casinos Division. “The Star Theatre gives Sydney the new venue it needs for productions like the Rocky Horror where the audience want atmosphere, comfort and great views of the stage.” While the original fans of The Rocky Horror Show are closer in age to the show’s creator, the show can proudly boast that it indeed now entertains three generations of fans. From the UK, across Europe, Africa, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, from local community productions to full-blown theatre shows, The Rocky Horror Show is always on stage somewhere in the world playing to teens through to those in their 60s. MEDIA RELEASE CONTINUED The show has always attracted notable cast members and those who have put their hands on their hips and done plenty of pelvis-thrusting include: Reg Livermore, Craig McLachlan, Jason Donovan, Kate Fitzpatrick, Daniel Aberneri, Tim Curry, Tracey Ullman, RuPaul, Jerry Springer, David Arquette, rockers Joan Jett and Sebastian Bach, Russell Crowe and Luke Perry. Thirty four years later, Rocky Horror fans and audiences are still going strong. Websites, fan clubs and annual conventions all over the world continue to foster an obsessive love for the show, its music and unusual characters. Those fans still turn up to productions dressed in every version of an authentic to a home-made costume eager to laugh, sing along and add their two cents when requested. The Sydney season promises a rollicking night and the boldest bash of them all. So fish out the fishnets and sharpen those stilettos for the rockiest ride of your life and buy a ticket before madness takes its toll. The Sydney season goes on sale on Monday 27 August so if you have voyeuristic intentions, you know what to do. CALL TICKETMASTER 1300 795 267 or www.ticketmaster.com.au PRESENTED BY ALL MEDIA ENQUIRIES: SYDNEY: DIANNA O’NEILL PUBLICITY (02) 9337 2288 or [email protected] NATIONAL: KERRY O’BRIEN PUBLICITY (03) 9596 9792 or [email protected] CAST BIOS RICHARD O’BRIEN’S THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE ROCK’N’ROLL MUSICAL iOTA – FRANK N FURTER iOTA, one of Australia’s most enigmatic, talented and original singer/songwriters, always wanted to be a rock star. Then the moment he became one, he freaked out. In hindsight he admits that it was a pivotal moment in a career that embraces six ARIA Award nominations, four albums, seven singles. Then another freak-out loomed when musical theatre presented itself and iOTA was cast as the lead in Hedwig & the Angry Inch. He needn’t worry as he took to the stage with gusto making a stunning theatrical debut which in the past 13 months has earned him a Helpmann Award for Best Male in a Musical as well a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Musical and a Green Room Award for Best Performance in a Musical. And then the fun really began ... August 2007 and we proudly announce iOTA’s involvement in two very different musical pieces. First up in the later half of 2007 iOTA performs alongside Graeme Murphy in Sydney Dance Company’s Berlin. Then in 2008 iOTA embraces the role of Dr. Frank N Furter in Richard O’Briens worlds favourite rock‘n’roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show. His 1999 debut album, The Hip Bone Connection, earned iOTA the first of his six ARIA Award nominations. His current album Beauty Queen Of The Sea embraces the warmth and melody from his third album La Caravana, but really is the sum of all its predecessors. And that leaves iOTA in an interesting place. “Anything is possible” he says. “This music theatre thing is really getting me yet at the same time if I can keep making music and releasing it I’ll be happy” www.myspace.com/iotamyspace PAUL CAPSIS – RIFF RAFF Paul Capsis is one of Australia’s best cabaret artists with an incredibly versatile, powerful voice that’s been described as ‘an act of God’. He has been performing nationally and internationally for more than 10 years, most recently in Barrie Kosky’s gigantic production The Lost Echo for the Sydney Theatre Company (for which he has received a 2007 Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Supporting role) and Absinthe, a New York debut for Spiegelworld. Paul has recorded two albums, the second one Everybody Wants To Touch Me being released later this year. He has won two Helpmann Awards including Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert in 2006 and Best Live Music Presentation in 2002. He also won a Green Room Award for Best Cabaret Artist in 2004 and a Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a lead role for Head On, which also won him an AFI Nomination.
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