Let’s do the time warp again – Jason leads new Rocky Horror Show tour
Australian actor and singer Jason Donovan has spoken about the sentimental value
has for him after meeting his wife Angela in 1998 on the production.
Former star Donovan, 55, will reprise the role of suspender-clad Frank ‘N’ Furter in a new tour of Richard O’Brien’s musical.
The show will hit the road from August and includes a two-week run at London’s Dominion Theatre from September 6.
Donovan, who has been playing the role in Sydney and Melbourne as the show celebrated 50 years, told the PA News Agency: “It’s also special for me because I met my wife on the show in 1998. She was working on the show.
“So it has another very sort of sentimental value to me. I’m looking forward to bringing my interpretation of this production to the UK because that is where this show feels like it’s in its home territory.”
O’Brien, who previously presented Channel 4’s
wrote the musical stage show
in 1973, which was later adapted for the 1975 film
starring Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry.
He co-wrote the screenplay for the film and also starred on the big screen as Riff Raff.
The show, which premiered at the Royal Court
Theatre in June 1973, follows Brad and his fiancee Janet, as they happen across a gothiclooking mansion after their car breaks down.
They meet the head of the house Dr Frank ‘N’ Furter, a self-proclaimed “sweet transvestite from transexual Transylvania”, and the couple watch on as he creates a man called Rocky in his laboratory.
Donovan said the show seems as fresh as it’s always been and still is relevant and loves the eccentricity of the character Frank ‘N’ Furter.
“I love its heart, I love the madness,” he said.
The show opens at the Churchill Theatre Bromley on August 19 and tours to High Wycombe, Glasgow, Sheffield and Liverpool.