The Rocky Horror Show hits 40 – in pictures

In 1973, Richard O'Brien wrote a musical celebrating sci-fi and B-movies, with a large splash of transvestism thrown in. The tiny Upstairs theatre at the Royal Court produced it, and the rest is his- and herstory

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• Gayest thing EVAH!

• Tim did his own makeup!

• "Tim did his own makeup!" It showed.

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• Very amateurish movie.

• Greatest cult film ever. I still watch it every chance I get.

• I would love some good Tim Curry gossip.

• Planet! Schmanet! Janet!

• Build your thighs up.

• How we made: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Writer and actor Richard O'Brien and composer Richard Hartley remember how three weeks at the Royal Court turned into a gender-bending 20th Century Fox extravaganza

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/mar/04/how-we-made-rocky-horror

• The only gossip I recall about Tim Curry was that somebody posted on DL that he had a crush on a straight chorus boy in some Broadway show and used to wait for him at the stage door every night. Then there's this wonderful profile the Guardian did of him a few years ago that mentions Judi Dench in "Cabaret" as one of his inspirations and that he once designed a garden for Freddie Mercury.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2006/oct/20/theatre1%3FINTCMP%3DSRCH

• I didn't know that Rocky was a Princess Tinymeat in the comic!

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• Appreciate the film for what it was but I can't say I really liked it.