"Don't get hot and fluh-HUH-STERED!

...Use a bit of MUH-HUH-STARD!"

[woulda blogged yesterday, but laptop was being a bitch.]

Watched Rocky Horror LIVE yesterday (and didn't think of bringing my camera to actually just take photos of the stage and stuff, ugh), and...

I TOTALLY FREAKING LOVED IT!!!

Front row balcony, best seat ever. I could even see the band do their thing, which was totally, totally awesome. Honestly, I think I was the Chines–nay, ASIAN there. Everyone else was white, goth, punk, and/or old. Audience members were mostly middle-aged to old, as Rocky Horror has been around since the mid-70's.

They even included audience participation!! Well, sorta. About 15-20 minutes before the show started, they sent the dancers into the audience to stir things up. So the guy the balcony got had on fishnets, denim very-short-and-very-tight shorts, some kind of half tank-top thingy, and full-on tranny make-up. He proceeded to bend over quite a bit and cause a lot of discomfort among us females (which is very funny when it's not happening to you). After a while, he moved up to the back, where I think he kinda satleaned(?) on this old lady who, when I was looking, couldn't stop laughing.

When he came back down, he crossed our row from right to left, SLOWly. As I was on aisle left, he had to cross this middle-aged couple before me, the lady of which, poked/slapped/smacked his bum when the guy passed her (I don't know which, I was too busy laughing). Like, her husband was with her! Hahaha!

After he passed me, he was standing on the steps (elevated seating, facing the back row). I, on the other hand, was trying my bestest not to look at the guy, since staring is totally weird in my current situation. He was standing there for a while, so finally, I gave. I looked up at the guy.

He winked at me.

I totally giggled (he was kinda cute ;)), throwing in an "Oh my God" while doing so, while Mrs. Butt-Pincher next to me was laughing hers off as well.

I noticed the people downstairs weren't having much luck either. Since the dancers below had the stage, well, let's just say it's POSING TIME!!!

Then the show started!

Even though it was only two hours, they still had an intermission (the term meaning 'mad rush to the bathroom'). At the end of it, the band played a medley of the show's songs. So cool to see them play live.

Costume-wise, the show is much more different than the movie, with the Transylvanians dressed way more provocatively than their black-suited counterparts in the movie. Additional song lyrics (additional song as well, cut out from the movie), and dialogue and storyline is slightly different (to suit the stage, 'cuz the pool bit's kinda impossible to emulate on stage.)

One thing's for sure, though: Rocky Horror Live is very, VERY MUCH dirtier! During Don't Dream It, Be It, they unveiled a giant lifesized plastic penis (YA RLY!), after which it shot out CONFETTI. HEART-shaped confetti. At all of us! I was gawkinglaughing at the same time 'cuz that sure as hell wasn't in the movie! xD

I loved the end of the show. Usually after a show ends, the players come out, bow, bow a bit more, then leave. Well, in our instance, everyone was walking away, except for guy playing Riff-Raff. And he yells to the audience,

"Melbourne! Would you like to do... the TIME WARP AGAIN!!"

[The Time Warp is Rocky Horror's signature song.]

Everyone cheered like mad. It was a friggin' ENCORE!!

The band started up again, and the cast proceeded to do The Time Warp. They were totally encouraging the audience to stand up and dance along (it has steps). I didn't; it's one thing to make a fool out of yourself in front of your friends, and another thing to do so when you're by yourself. But I had a ton of fun singing along and watching them perform again.

And then it was finally over. Sigh. Next time when I have money and it comes, I'm gonna go again :D

[I think my mom's gonna kill me when she sees at the program I bought, she didn't really like the idea of me going to see the show :p]