The audience was filled with Riff Raffs, Frank-N-Furters, Columbias, Magentas and Transylvanians of all kinds. Rocky Horror was the audience experience of last year.
He seemed overwhelmed, his “Thankyou”, genuine. The man who wrote ‘ The Time Warp’ and originated the role of Riff Raff, had to raise his hands and settle the audience down. We clapped, cheered and hollered, on end… here was the Richard O’Brien, a kiwi made good, (damn what immigration say), finally bringing his world-famous cult show home. Richard strides on, dazzling in a Gaultier denim coat tails, opens his mouth to utter the Narrator’s immortal line “ I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey…”, but the audience wouldn’t let him speak! I have never seen an Auckland audience react in quite the way they responded to Richard O’Brien’s entrance in the recent season of Rocky Horror Show at the Civic. Richard O'Brien returned to the stage as 'Narrator'
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