Monday, 19 October 2015

The Rocky Horror Show gala to be broadcast on Sky Arts!

It has been announced that the recent live broadcast of The Rocky Horror Show will be shown on Sky Arts later this month!

The performance, which features cameos from Stephen Fry, Mel Giedroyc, Anthony Head and Emma Bunton, will be broadcast on 31st October at 2pm (also repeated on 2/11 at 23.40 and 5/11 at 21.00).

UPDATE: The performance will now be broadcast at 9pm on 31st October 2015.

The cast includes Rocky Horror David Bedella as Frank ‘n’ Furter, Richard O’Brien as The Narrator, Ben Forster as Brad and Haley Flaherty as Janet.

Completing the cast are: Kristian Lavercombe as Riff Raff, Jayde Westaby as Magenta, Sophie Linder-Lee as Columbia, Richard Meek as Eddie/Dr. Scott and Dominic Anderson as Rocky as well as Will Knights, Ben Kerr,  Hannah Malekzad and Rachel Grundy as Phantoms and Andrew Ahern (swing).

Further casting was recently announced for Rocky Horror's upcoming UK tour.

Read our interviews with David BedellaBen Forster

7 comments:

  1. My fiance loved watching this on sky arts and I was wondering if there's a dvd copy available to buy?

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    1. there is a petition to get it on dvd
      link to petition - dontdreamitDVDit.org
      link to fb group - rockyhorrorliveDVD.org

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    2. there is a petition to get it on dvd
      link to petition - dontdreamitDVDit.org
      link to fb group - rockyhorrorliveDVD.org

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  2. I think this was better than the movie - David Bedella stole the show. I would hope there is enough interest for Sky to be able to have this available for a long, long time.

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  3. Sadly there is no DVD. But there is a petition at dontdreamitDVDit.org and a Facebook group at rockyhorrorliveDVD.org to get it released.

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  4. Sadly there are no plans for a DVD but there is an active petition to try and get one.

    E-petition: dontdreamitDVDit.org
    Facebook: rockyhorrorliveDVD.org

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  5. This was awful. Far better stage versions have been and gone!

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