The Rocky Horror Show former member of the 1978 production) as Riff Raff, and Wayne Pygram as Rocky Horror. Winton Morley's new production of "The Rocky Horror Show" opened 6 October 1981 at Theatre Royal Sydney. The Sydney revival show toured successfully to Melbourne, Rockhampton, Townsville, Mount Isa, Canberra, Newcastle, Brisbane, Hobart, Launceston, Perth and Adelaide. David Toguri (who had previously done the choreography for the 1975 film adaptation of the musical) directed and choreographed the revival show. The cast featured Daniel Abineri as Frank-N-Furter, who had previously played the role in the first UK tour in 1979 and for a year in London's
The Rocky Horror Picture Show wit to be "too weak to sustain a film" and thought that the "songs all sound the same". In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" helped shape conditions of cult film's transition from art-house to grind-house style. The film developed a cult following in 1976 at the Waverly Theatre in New York, which developed into a standardised ritual. According to J. Hoberman, author of "Midnight Movies", it was after five months into the film's midnight