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 sound mix, and a 4K/2K image transfer from the original camera negative. In addition, new content featuring karaoke and a fan performance were included. "Chicago Sun-Times" critic Roger Ebert noted that when first released, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" was "ignored by pretty much everyone, including the future fanatics who would eventually count the hundreds of times they'd seen it". He considered it more a "long-running social phenomenon" than a movie, rating it 2.5 out of 4 stars. Bill Henkin noted that "Variety" thought that the "campy hijinks" of the film seemed labored, and also mentioned that the "San Francisco