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Wild night at Hippodrome’s “Rocky Horror”
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Well, wild in a good way at last night’s screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Waco Hippodrome.
Wild as in a crowd that filled the ground floor and spilled into the balcony for a 33-year-old movie whose DVD you can buy for the price of admission. Wild as in a raucous crowd gleefully chanting ribald rejoinders and vulgar quotes. Wild as people dancing the Time Warp.
Wild as (a sight that will stay with me for a long while) more than a dozen rolls of toilet paper flung into the air from the balcony (my vantage point, after arriving late). Wild as the onstage humping and bumping from shadow cast members mirroring (and a little bit more) what was on screen.
Wild as a costume contest in which the young man dressed in nothing but gold lame (la-MAY, not LAYM; I’ve got no accent mark here) briefs, tennis shoes and socks came in second.
Sure, it wasn’t perfect. The ground-level projector meant that onstage action by Austin shadow cast The Queerios blocked views of the movie and cast shadows on much of it. And in the balcony, it was hard to hear lines shouted from the audience.
It was wild for Waco, though - and a blast. My colleagues Wendy Gragg and Chris Oliver were on the ground floor; I’m looking forward to their posts … and next year’s event.
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By Jeremy
October 31, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this | I was that young man….
&&null=" class="abuse">Report comment abuseI was that young man….
By Carl Hoover
October 31, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this | Ha! You rocked! From where I was, it sounded like you got the bigger applause, but there may have&&null=" class="abuse">Report comment abuse
Ha! You rocked! From where I was, it sounded like you got the bigger applause, but there may have been a fix in with the judges …
By Jeremy
November 3, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this | Yea, well i really really wanted some of those tickets, love the theater but i can’t really&&null=" class="abuse">Report comment abuse
Yea, well i really really wanted some of those tickets, love the theater but i can’t really afford to attend. Oh well, i appreciate it lol