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 Sharman reunited with O'Brien to film "Shock Treatment", a stand-alone feature that was not a direct sequel to the original film. This film as originally conceived and written in 1980 under the title "The Brad and Janet Show", using most of the songs from the original "Rocky Horror Shows His Heels" project with lyrical adjustments, and depicting the characters' continuing adventures in the town of Denton, however these plans had to be adjusted due to a Screen Actor's Guild strike. The eventual production would entail the entire film being shot within a sound stage. "Shock Treatment" was poorly received by