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 Show (video game) the property. CRL's CEO Clem Chambers claimed in an interview with GamesTM that the rights holder for the property approached the company after being impressed by their work with "The War of the Worlds". Chambers stated he wanted to base the game on the environments of the stage show instead of "the elements of dubious taste in the show itself". "Rocky Horror"s creator Richard O'Brien didn't have much involvement with making the game, due to being "terrified of technology". Ian Ellery, a fan of "Rocky Horror", was the game's programmer. "The Rocky Horror Show" received generally positive reviews. Retrospectives of