Rocky Horror Picture Show
11 p.m.
Oct. 31, 2014
Emens. Auditorium
To exit stage left at the small grill they were performing at, the shadow cast of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” had to run through the entire bar and all the way around to the back of the restaurant.
This was the first time the cast had seen the stage at The Wheelhouse Grill in Centerville, Ind., where they were performing for the first time off-campus.
The Rocky Horror Shadow Cast became an official campus group last semester, making the group better known, and allowing it the opportunity to perform at an outside location.
In addition to its performance last week, the cast will perform its annual show Halloween night at John R. Emens Auditorium. Ball State students have been putting on the show for five years. During the show, cast members act out and mouth the lines in front of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
Angie Hubert, a sophomore telecommunications digital production major who plays Dr. Frank N. Furter, said the show was incredible even though the grill’s stage was half the size of what they had been practicing on and she didn’t see it until five minutes before she went on.
“Basically when we got there, we had to figure out what we were going to do on the spot,” Hubert said.Malia Eden, a junior elementary education major who plays Janet Weiss, said even though the stage was small, it allowed them to better interact with the audience.
“We were allowed to get in their faces and be right there, because the stage was so small,” Eden said. “It worked out really well.”
She said performing at the grill was surreal.
“Me and the guy playing Riff Raff, we had this adrenaline rush, and that’s all we were talking about on the way home was how exciting it was to be able to do it and see all of this work actually happen,” Eden said. “It just made me so excited and a lot less nervous for Friday.”
Because this performance wasn’t on a college campus, members of the audience were allowed to interact with the cast in the traditional way that they aren’t allowed to on campus.
Along with call-backs at certain parts of the film, there are also spots in the film where the audience throws things at the cast. She said colleges tend to not want the audience doing this because it’s messy and hard to clean up.
“A big part of the show is that we want you to interact with us,” Hubert said. “There’s certain things set in the show – there’s a line that says ‘Great Scott’ and you’re allowed to throw Scott toilet paper.”
She said there were also people throwing rice and cards during other parts of the film.
“It was just really cool to actually be a part of the cast, to see all these things being thrown at you and trying to work with it,” Hubert said.
Along with having an outside of Ball State performance, the cast is also moving to Emens Auditorium this year, because last year the group had to turn more than 200 people away at John J. Pruis Hall, said Brianna Bradley, the director of the show.
“We didn’t have any more seats, and that was with sneaking people in and letting them sit in the aisles,” Bradley said. “So we don’t want to tell people, ‘You can’t come.’ We want as many people in as possible.”
The cast performs the show at midnight on Halloween, and the doors open at 11 p.m.
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