Are a Drag Rocky Horror Picture Show", and "Rainbow Connection"). The album's cover features the members of the band dressed up, in drag, as five characters from the musicals represented in song: a member of "A Chorus Line" ("What I Did For Love"), Annie Mudge from "Annie" ("Tomorrow"), Dorothy Gale from "The Wizard of Oz" ("Over the Rainbow"), Sandy Dumbrowski from "Grease" ("It's Raining on Prom Night"), and Dr. Frank-N-Furter from "The Rocky Horror Show" ("Science Fiction/Double Feature"). Like many other Gimme Gimmes albums, "Are a Drag" contains many elements of mash-up - more specifically, musical allusions to punk or power-pop songs in
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