director: Heather Williams-Williams
music director: Ian Schultz
choreographer: Sydney Swanson
scenic designer: Peggy Sannerud
lighting designer: Andy Glischinski
costume designer: Tracy van Voorst
stage manager: Emma Cavanaugh
cast: Emily Budach, Jessica Campbell, Jacob Eberhard, Benjamin Glomski, Josh Hill, Rochelle Hovde, Tyler Jensen, Nathel Kaiyeepu, Cameron Lorntson, Rachel Maron, Noah Nelson, Cameron Pelzer, Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest, Samantha Rosendale, Tristen Weldon
The classic Rocky Horror Picture Show comes to the stage, complete with cross-dressing monsters, sexual innuendo (and not so much innuendo), and a pair of virgins made to see the world in a whole new light.
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Wow. This was perhaps one of the worst productions I've seen in a long while.
I'm confident that if you didn't already know the story or hadn't seen the movie, you wouldn't have a clue what was going on. Why am I confident? Because I heard people all around me constantly asking what was said or what was happening, and listening to the talk after the show it was clear that most people didn't know what they had just seen.
There was a lot of cheering and laughter from college students, but mostly because of the sexual antics (dressing, undressing, cross-dressing on stage).
The actors often paused for the expected responses from the audience (if you've been to the film you probably know what I'm referring to). The night that I saw this show there were probably 150 patrons but only one person was shouting the appropriate responses and she gave up half way through.
What made the show so bad was the lack of cohesion - telling the story to the audience. Nearly all the actors mumbled through their lines and even though they were mic'd it was difficult to understand them. This play relied much more on sexual shock than it did on presenting a funny, shocking play.
A good friend of mine, who sees a LOT of theatre, attended the day after I did and he called me to ask me what they play had been about. He couldn't understand any of what was happening.
Of the cast, the young woman playing Janet was probably strongest, capturing Janet's change from innocence to experience quite well. The young man playing Eddie/Dr. Scott was also quite good, but neither was able to carry the weight of telling the story of this play.
The set was better than most I've seen in the past few years at this school. The costumes ... what can you say? Revealing and sexual and mostly appropriate for the show (though not always appropriate for the body).
Kudos to all for their willingness to get as almost naked as they did. I wish there was more to this production than near-nudity and sex. Mostly this was a waste of time and I had actually warned my friend not to bother, but he went anyway and regrets that decision/
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