The Rocky Horror Show 230-seat Chelsea Classic Cinema nearby on Kings Road from 14 August 1973 to 20 October 1973. "Rocky Horror" found a quasi-permanent home at the 500-seat King's Road Theatre—another cinema house, even further down Kings Road—from 3 November 1973. The show received critical praise and won the 1973 "Evening Standard" Award for Best Musical. When Richard O'Brien played Riff Raff in the original Broadway production of "Rocky Horror" in 1974 Robert Longden took over the role in London. The show's run at the King's Road Theatre ended on 31 March 1979; it then transferred to the Comedy Theatre (now the Harold
The Rocky Horror Picture Show a third attempted sequel project with the working title "Rocky Horror: The Second Coming", first to be made as a stage production, with an option to create a film if met with success. This script would largely integrate plot elements from "Rocky Horror Shows His Heels", but with all-new songs. O'Brien completed a first draft of this script (which was read by Terry Jones) but had difficulties finalizing anything beyond the first act, and little more has been heard of this project since the mid-2000s. In 2015, O'Brien produced "Shock Treatment" for the theatrical stage. The production premiered at the