![]() ![]() “I literally get up and walk out of the theater and I turned to Graham Jarvis going ‘I’m gone, I’m not doing this, I’m out of here,’” the actor recalled. It was the first time the rest of the cast heard “Sweet Transvestite.” Curry didn’t arrive in America until late in rehearsals, and he showed up in full costume and make-up. “I really didn’t say ‘what’s the play about,’ somebody said we’ll pay you $270, so I’m there, babe.” During early rehearsals, none of the cast knew what the play was about, only the songs they were doing. “It’s not like you were getting rich as an actor in New York,” he remembered. Meat Loaf almost walked out of the original play. I just love telling people ‘I can do that’ and then being able to do it.” “Nobody could ever get in and just make those words fly through it. “I looked at him and said ‘I can sing all the words,’” Meat Loaf remembered. The actor was a high school athlete, playing defensive tackle on the football team, and maintained his competitive spirit. ![]() … I wrote it and I can’t sing all the words.’” “They come to me on the part of ‘Hot Patootie,’ and Richard O’Brien is here at these rehearsals… he said ‘on this song you’ll never be able to get all the words in. “The first two weeks when we were doing the play all we did was the music, they had not given us a script,” Meat Loaf explained in a filmed interview. He got the role of Eddie because he was the only actor who could get through the character’s signature number. Besides Tim Curry, who would reprise his role as the original Dr. He brought the show to the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. Renowned rock producer and concert promoter Lou Adler attended a show 1973, and bought theatrical rights. The Rocky Horror Show won the 1973 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical. During the stage productions, Eddie and Dr. O’Brien originally saw himself in the role of Eddie, but Sharman wanted him to play the usurping alien butler Riff-Raff. Written by Richard O’Brien, and produced and directed by Jim Sharman, the original London production of The Rocky Horror Show premiered at The Theater Upstairs in the Royal Court Theatre on June 19, 1973. Scott, and should have played the character in the film. The rock and rolling biker who gave half his brain for science was only half of the character Meat Loaf played onstage. The other is his turn as Eddie in the musical comedy sci-fi cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Produced by Todd Rundgren, it sold over 50 million copies, and several of the songs remain radio and satellite staples. Meat Loaf, whose real name is Marvin Lee Aday, leaves behind a versatile legacy in film and music, but will forever be associated with two major cultural contributions. ![]()
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