Rocky Horror Show: Review

Rocky Horror Show Review Rocky Horror Show most definitely lived up to the sense of style it should have had. There was much sexual humor present throughout the show especially from the actors that sat in the audience. They kept up the sexual humor so the actors on stage could go somewhere with their scene and create a plot. There was much audience interaction because of the prop bags (that was a great way to help the audience be involved), and with the whole play starting with Magenta in the audience and ending with the dancers doing the Time Warp in the aisles. It lived up to the naughtiness with a lot of skin and even a pole number, and I could see how this would have shocked people when it debuted, it even shocked me in present time. …show more content…
There was enough different movement to keep the audience interested but there were enough repeated movements as to not distract from the singing. The movement was not elaborate but that is good so that the singers would not get breathy and sound bad. I liked that there were a lot of formation changes in every musical number because it allowed every dancer to be seen in the front and to show off different costumes with different movements. The singing was good overall. Riff Raff was my favorite singer because he had a nice clear voice and could hit some challenging skips and slides up and down the octaves. Brad, Frank, and Riff Raff all sang from their diaphragms and had nice support to be able to hold out some ending notes. Janet and Brad had nice harmony when they sang together but Janet could work on singing with her diaphragm more especially because her solo at the start of the second act was breathy and she was not sticking the notes well. Magenta sang very well I thought she did a great job opening and closing the show but I did not like Columbia’s voice. I know she was supposed to sing in her annoying voice but I felt like it was not supported and sounded like …show more content…
The lighting was good when the thunder storm came with the flickering lights and overall they were appropriate colors for the music numbers and helped highlight the costumes and skin tones instead of drowning them out. However I thought the music was too loud on some of the musical numbers like Eddie’s because I could not fully hear the singer. In addition I thought the music was more light and upbeat like pop instead of metal. I really did not gain the sense of metal from the