![]() TO THE LATE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE PICTURE SHOWĪT THE LATE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE PICTURE SHOW TO THE LATE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE PICTURE SHOW BY R K O - OH, OH I’M GOING TO GIVE YOU SOME TERRIBLE THRILLS OH, AT THE LATE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE PICTURE SHOWĪND I REALLY GOT HOT, WHEN I SAW JEANETTE SCOTTįIGHT A TRIFFID THAT SPITS POISON AND KILLSĭANA ANDREWS SAID PRUNES GAVE HIM THE RUNESĪND WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE SAID GEORGE PAL TO HIS BRIDE WILL BUILD A CREATURE, SEE ANDROIDS FIGHTING – OO, OO, OOīRAD AND JANET, ANNE FRANCIS STARS IN – OO, OO THEN AT A DEADLY PACE IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE IN SILVER UNDERWEAR, CLAUDE RAINS WAS THE INVISIBLE MAN MICHAEL RENNIE WAS ILL,THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILLīUT HE TOLD US WHERE WE STAND, AND FLASH GORDON WAS THERE They turn to the audience and yell : Glad you could COME tonight, as they remove the veil, a spotlight htis the USHERETTE and she stands to sing She is covered with white gauze, lit only by the torch light from her ice-cream tray. There is a scream and the curtains open to reveal an Usherette, sitting on a black square block in the centre of the stage, with the cinema screen behind her. SCOTT, are the disguised USHERS and they approach the stage, as the lights dim. Amidst the screams and laughs, the band taking their places (in an area off to one side, amongst the scaffolding) is hardly noticed. At one point one of them begins vacumning the threadbare carpet. The screen is a guaze, fine enough to see through when lit from behind.ģ "ushers" badly dressed in moth eaten suits and clear plastic face masks (mannequins in the same costumes are positioned randomly against walls and poles) menace patrons by standing and staring at them, or sitting in a empty seat next to them, till they notice and yelp with fright. ![]() Behind the screen is a curved ladder that forms an arch, also a set of coloured lights making a rainbow. If there is enough space, the band can perform from behind the movie screen, and the right hand side scaffolding platform can hold the Coke fridge. ![]() A string of bare bulbs run from a front corner to the opposite rear corner.Īs the theatre is a cinema, the amount of room behind the screen has a bearing on the set's layout. For all appearances, this is a room, mid-demolition. The room is very dimly lit and what can be seen is decaying, cracked or missing, a lifeless arm can be seen hanging through a large crack in the ceiling's plasterwork and collapsed chairs are stacked under the scaffolding. The audience is facing a proscenium and red velvet curtains. Until the scene that uses the lab, it is hidden behind a shabby, stained curtain, resembling a painter’s drop cloth. The lab consists of a hospital bed, with neon tubes in rows behind it, as well as test tubes and chemical flasks filled with colored liquids arranged in front of the neon. The scaffolding platform on the right, also accessed by ladder, supports the “lab”. The one at the left has a ladder running from the stage to the platform, where an old Coca-Cola chest-style fridge is sitting with black curtaining blocking any view of what may lie behind The centre aisle is blocked by a catwalk running from one of the back doors and meeting at the centre of the stage. Scaffolding runs along both side walls finising at raised platforms at the sides of the stage. ![]() Once inside the auditorium, you see that the entire interior has been covered in dark blue canvas, stenciled with ACME Demolition Co. Signs on the walls carry apologies for the inconvenience caused during demolition. The lobby is papered with old horror movie posters, a jukebox and pinball machines. The dilapidated facade is papered with half torn Rocky Horror posters. Rocky Horror is about a loss of innocence, the decaying movie house providing the sense of losing the past and the immediate recognition that this show is about movies. The venue is all important! A single level cinema, on the verge of being condemned, in a seedy area, the bigger the loss of opulence, the more impacting the effect. ![]()
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