This only hampers those involved in them – Cox, Ryan McCartan, Victoria Justice, and Staz Nair – with pretty lifeless material to work with. Aside from noticeable cosmetic differences (Columbia wears a tutu instead of hot pants Rocky’s pants are looser Dr Frank-N-Furter is significantly more clothed), the more sexed-up scenes are deprived of any raunch. It doesn’t help that the studio’s influence is clear. Because spontaneous energy really is Rocky Horror’s bread and butter, Ortega’s new ‘tribute’ (the marketing insisted time and time again that it wasn’t a remake while it technically is, it’s clear that everyone involved has a great deal of respect for the original and simply wants to have a bit of fun) has far too expensive production values and fails to capture the right aesthetic. It’s a musical that works best when executed crudely, with an appealingly makeshift set design that creates an overall feeling of spontaneity. There’s a slickness to The Rocky Horror Picture Show that really shouldn’t exist. But, despite reservations, Cox knocked it out of the park. Putting aside the rather perplexing gender politics involved, Cox isn’t a singer and many felt, right up until broadcast, that she wasn’t right for the part. On the other hand, the casting of activist and actor Laverne Cox as the show’s hypersexual, unhinged scientist, was, initially, less inspiring. The man who directed Hocus Pocus and the High School Musical trilogy as well as being the choreographer for Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is a more-than safe pair of hands, he’s almost a sure-fire way to guarantee The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again success. Redoing Rocky Horror is a Herculean task, then, but, in my eyes, nobody is better equipped to tackle it than Kenny Ortega. Not least because the musical and film has such a devout and protective purist fan-base. It’s also a formula that a lot of filmmakers and stage directors are fearful to change.

It’s a borderline nonsensical celebration of the camp and the queer that still delights audiences four decades on. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a formula that continues to work astonishingly well, all things considered.

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