Let’s Do The Time Warp Again! THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW .. / parksquaretheatre.org SEP –NOV sponsored by Executive Director Note Of course we have learned a lot since . The transgender people Saturday of color who kicked off the gay rights revolution years ago at riots in New York’s Stonewall Inn and San Cinema Francisco’s Compton’s Cafeteria are only just now—slowly and painfully— getting recognized as our brothers and sisters who deserve not just rights but our respect. Host Lynn Warfel plays Director Ilana Ransom Toeplitz, has the best scores and Let’s Do the Time Warp Again! rooted today’s show in our collective sounds from the movies love for this campy reminder that we Like Park Square, The Rocky Horror are all in this life together. We are Tune in every Show had its debut in . You can one rainbow family of humanity. Saturday at 10 a.m. still see the famous fi lm version with Tim Curry Saturdays at midnight in Thank you for being naughty with Minneapolis. us tonight and for joining our loving Rocky Horror Show family. My own introduction happened in the early s, dancing to “Sweet As the song says: “Don’t Dream It, Transvestite” at high school drama BE IT!” t UNDER parties. Rocky’s madcap mix of “Barbarella”-style science fi ction (And please help us clean up the aisles and glam rock band concert was an as you exit the theatre!) PRESSURE exhilarating soundtrack to a closeted presented by: gay teenager. This show gives us all Yours, Cuisine. Competition. CoCktails. permission to be naughty—even if ad it’s just for a night. OctOber 24 • the Machine ShOp Rocky is a fantasy journey—with This year it’s ALL ABOUT THE PRESSURE COOKER! The most tongue planted fi rmly in cheek— C. Michael-jon Pease, CFRE reputable Chefs in the industry will take center stage in a fierce through many variations of gender competition to see who can create the most appetizing dish Executive Director identity, sex and sexuality. incorporating a secret ingredient only using a pressure cooker! Shaking it out on the spirits stage, top bartenders from local watering holes will go head-to-head for the title of ‘Top Mixologist’. Park Square Theatre seeks to enrich you—and our community—by ticketS On Sale nOw at ironfork.citypages.com producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind, and delights the spirit. Synopsis Song List THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard O’Brien Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck Science Fiction Double Feature with a fl at tire during a storm, Damn It Janet creative team Director/Choreographer Ilana Ransom Toeplitz discover the eerie mansion of Over at the Frankenstein Place Music Director Andrew Fleser Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite The Time Warp Set Designer An-Lin Dauber scientist. As their innocence is lost, Sweet Transvestite Costume Designer Rebecca Bernstein Brad and Janet meet a houseful of The Sword of Damocles Lighting Designer Andrew Griffi n+ wild characters, including a rocking I Can Make You a Man Sound Designer Peter Morrow biker and a creepy butler. Through Hot Patootie Props Designer Nicole DelPizzo Wig Designer Robert A. Dunn elaborate dances and rock songs, I Can Make You a Man (Con’t) Associate Choreographer/ Rush Benson Frank-N-Furter unveils their latest Touch-A Touch-A Touch Me Dance Captain creation: a muscular man named Once In A While Vocal Coach Foster Johns “Rocky.” Eddie’s Teddy Intimacy Consultant Annie Enneking Planet Schmanet–Wise Up Janet Dramaturg Morgan Holmes Weiss Stage Manager Laura Topham* Floorshow / Rose Tint My World Assistant Stage Manager Jamie J. Kranz* I’m Going Home Park Square Theatre Ashawnti Sakina Ford Super Heroes Directing Fellow Science Fiction Double Feature Assistant Lighting Richard Graham Designer (Reprise) cast Janet Natalie Shaw Brad Ben Lohrberg Narrator Ricky Morisseau Riff Raff Randy Schmeling* Columbia Celena Vera Morgan Magenta Hope Nordquist Frank Gracie Anderson Rocky Rush Benson* Eddie Cameron Reeves Dr. Scott Sara Ochs ++ As a courtesy to our actors and those around you, please DEACTIVATE ALL musicians Piano/Band Leader Andrew Fleser Guitar Patrick Horigan ++ PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Bass Max LaRock ++ Drums Jendeen Forberg ++ Photography by Richard Fleischman Sax Dylan Younger ++ The Rocky Horror Show is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Park Square setting Saint Paul, MN, a time-warped Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the performance time hours including a -minute intermission American theatre. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio visual recordings of this production or * Members of Actor’s Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the + Member of USA, United Scenic Artists: The Representative Voice of Designers and Scenic Artists author’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. ++ Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians Director/Choreographer Seeing Double: Monsters And Mainstream Tension In The Rocky Horror Show ROCKY HORROR YOU NEED PEACE OF MIND—AND I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT YOU’RE DOING JUST FINE Wood describes the genre as the YOU’RE THE PRODUCT OF ANOTHER TIME AND relationship between normality— FEELING DOWN WELL THAT’S NO CRIME “boringly constant: the heterosexual monogamous couple, the family I typically hate program notes and Though problematic, I’m grateful and the social institutions (police, believe that the show should speak that Rocky also offered us the church, armed forces) that support for itself, so I surprised myself when opportunity to hold sensitive and defend them”—and The Monster, I actually wanted to write something conversations about what this whose form fl uctuates to suit for The Rocky Horror Show in . material sounds like in : what whatever threatens current society. has changed, what has not Though a parody of its genres, ‘...Because we’ve always done it changed—and what must change. RHS acts as a fun house mirror to that way.” is one of the most toxic I hope we can both talk, and listen, refl ect its era’s repression and fear sentences in today’s language—and about what that looks like to all of us. around sex, politics, pop culture, and nostalgia can be dangerous. We crave I’m grateful for the thumbprints technological advancement. What stories that remind us how we felt in that the cast, creative team, and the does this Frankensteinian, gender- place and time in our lives. This often staff at Park Square Theatre have playful, rock-and-roll, alien invasion stops us from new experiences and generously left on this production romp inform us about normality hearing new stories. (and on me as well—awww!). The and monsters, repression and fears staff of Park Square Theatre offered in ? What are the stakes are of Nobody is going to benefi t from seemingly bottomless artistic telling these stories in ? watching a man do a Tim Curry support for me during this process— From the opening song of The Rocky impression in a pair of cheap heels especially from Laura, Jamie, Horror Show (RHS), with its timeline For instance, the stakes are very high and fi shnets. As a female-identifying Ashawnti, Andy, Rush, Flordelino & of s to s science fi ction fi lms, for some gender non-conforming, artist myself, I couldn’t be more Michael-jon. the audience is set up for a fantastical non-binary and transgender folk. proud to put Gracie in this iconic B-movie ride. And since it fi rst hit In the s, activists and trans role in all her unique, unapologetic, It’s not easy having a good time, but the stage in , the fandom of people of color Marsha Johnson brassy, commanding, sexual prowess. you make it feel like a party. Thank RHS—and its subsequent and Sylvia Rivera used “transvestite” I thank her for her leadership, you for welcoming me into your fi lm adaptation The Rocky Horror and “transsexual” as the accurate support, and bravery in this process. community. You are now a part of Picture Show (RHPS)—has ritualized words to describe themselves and mine, whether you like it or not. It costumes, lip syncs, call-backs and their communities’ identities. In Community is the reason we come has been my privilege to collaborate time warps in perfect alignment with , original fans of RHPS midnight to the theatre. Community is also the with your bravery, open hearts, open this camp classic. movie showings transformed theaters reason Rocky Horror has a fanbase minds, enthusiasm, stories and into safe spaces for exploring their and found its success. And while it thumbprints. Thank you for being But what happens when we gender, sexuality, and fantasy. But, was one of the fi rst openly queer- you. investigate the work more seriously? today we’ve collectively decided using friendly communities, it’s important Science fi ction and horror genres lend these words to refer to anyone—who to acknowledge that The Rocky Horror Ilana Ransom Toeplitz themselves well to such interrogation. does not use these words to label Show is violent towards the Trans Director & Choreographer In “The American Nightmare: Horror themselves—is outdated at best, community. in the s,” gay fi lm critic Robin [trans identity] is about people’s Cast Guthrie Theatre, Cowles Center and actual lives. You will fi nd many trans The Academy At Collide Upcoming folks who adore all of the subversive, GRACIE Projects Collide Theatricals: Romeo transgressive energy that drag can ANDERSON & Juliet bring.