The Nevada Sagebrush

They started out at Wingfield Park, but their followers overran the grounds. Then the Hilton/Grand Sierra could not house them any longer. For the ninth year, they picked Lawlor Events Center. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”had found a home at last.Nearly 3,000 people filled the arena, most of whom had thrown common decency out the window in exchange for skimpy clothing and makeup.

But the bra and garter outfit wasn’t solely for the female members of the audience. One man was wearing a green thong with a green glowstick used as a cockring and a trucker hat.
As the thousands of people filed in there was a comedian on stage doing a poor job of entertaining the crowd before the show actually began. The back of the stage was bedecked with a giant screen, which the movie would play on as the actors pantomimed the movie on the stage.

Before the movie began, there was a costume contest, which was won by a man dressed up as good-girl Janet. Immediately following that was a Time Warp dance lesson. For those who had never been to Rocky Horror, or for those who had forgotten how, the lessons were there to teach the audience the most famous part of the movie.

As 8 p.m. rolled around, the actors, a troupe from San Francisco called “The Bawdy Caste,”came out and did what they do at every Rocky Horror showing: single out the virgins.

In Rocky Horror speak, a virgin is someone who has never been to see Rocky Horror in a live performance. At a showing, if you’re a Rocky virgin, you not only get a big V on your forehead, you get harassed. It may be something as simple as being mocked, or as invasive as being dry humped. Rocky Horror is an entirely different plane: Planet Transsexual in the Transylvania Galaxy, to be precise.

This specific Rocky Horror troupe did what they called a Virgin Sundae, where they picked out virgins from the audience and made them get on their knees. Their mouths were then filled with whipped cream with a cherry placed on top. The Bawdy Caste then “took their cherries”by eating the cherries out with their mouths.

With this much excitement before the show even started, everyone knew this was going to be a wonderful night.
For those of you who don’t know the plot, it’d take more than a single review to explain it all, but it’s a cult movie that encourages audience participation.

As the giant lips sang the opening song “Science Fiction Double Feature,”two women in beyond-skimpy clothing danced seductively as the Bawdy Caste walked onstage. Soon the movie started and the excitement elevated.

As the first scene in the movie, the wedding scene, began audience members threw rice. Not only rice was thrown throughout the movie, things from toilet paper to toast were as well. As you looked down at the floor, you could only feel bad for the custodial staff—the audience was sitting up to their necks in the mess.

The movie itself was entertaining, though the Bawdy Caste was out of sync with the movie most of the time, which was a tad saddening.

The night was filled with flying toiletry and food, cross dressers and little-to-nothing dressers, and, in the end, a great sense of enjoyment that you were able to be part of such an amazing event.

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