The Rocky Horror Show Films in October 2008. In December 2012, a new production of "The Rocky Horror Show" began a year-long UK tour to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. Christopher Luscombe has returned to direct the production which stars Oliver Thornton as Frank N. Furter, Ben Forster (winner of ITV1 series "Superstar") as Brad Majors until February 2013, Roxanne Pallett (of "Emmerdale") as Janet Weiss until May 2013 and Rhydian Roberts (of "The X Factor") as Rocky until March 2013. Unlike recent productions, the tour will not feature interchanging guest Narrators with Philip Franks taking on the role. The show also features Kristian
The Rocky Horror Picture Show reached No. 12 on the Australian albums chart and No. 11 on the New Zealand albums chart. The album is described as the "definitive version of the ["Rocky Horror"] score." The film opened in the United Kingdom at Rialto Theater in London 14 August 1975 and in the United States on 26 September at the UA Westwood in Los Angeles, California. It did well at that location, but not elsewhere. Before the midnight screenings' success, the film was withdrawn from its eight opening cities due to very small audiences, and its planned New York City opening on Halloween night was