![]() “He says he’s a transvestite transexual, whatever that means. He does say that it’s his favorite obsession, so there must have been others that have been discarded along the way. “He wants to create the perfect man, though I suspect that’s only one of his obsessions. “He’s kind of an extremist, Frank,” Curry rather affectionately explains. I just finished a BBC series on Napoleon in which I appear as Josephine’s son and get to age from 17 to 30” - a proper enough counterpart to the less easily described character Curry plays by night. “And, in fact, I’ve done a lot of television as a result of ‘Rocky Horror.’ For the last four months, I’ve done television during the day. I mean, obviously, if you brought it off, you brought it off as an actor and not as a rent-a-freak. “But,” he quickly adds, “I just thought it was such a good part, people would know you were acting. The 27-year-old-actor admits that it was not without a few trepidations that he undertook the leading role in “The Rocky Horror Show” some months ago in London. In his role as Frank N Furter, a batty mad scientist, half Auntie Mame, half Bela Lugosi, Curry pounces upon the two bewildered ingenues who have wandered onto the stage of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”Ī timely lesson, considering that by Thursday night when “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” officially opens at the Roxy Theater on Sunset for an open-ended run before moving on to Broadway, Curry will have an American audience of his own with which to contend. His pants legs rolled up as if to impersonate a pair of pedal pushers circa 1955, muscular calves straining against black, fishnet, tottering dottily on towering silver-sparkled heels, Tim Curry weaves unerringly though the calculated confusion of a relatively undress rehearsal. This article was originally published on March 17, 1974. Times writer Gregg Kilday was there in 1974 and interviewed the rising star during a “relatively undress rehearsal.” And the stories Curry shared, about glitter rock pageantry and the backstage reactions it sometimes inspired, were fantastic. Before there was the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” film, there was the “Rocky Horror” London stage production that spawn such indie fanfare and cult-cred that eventually the lead actor, Tim Curry, would cross the pond all the way to Los Angeles to head up the American stage debut.
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