“Is Chicago ready for ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show?'”

Moviegoers in Los Angeles and New York — shivering with antici … pation — already scooped up gobs of tickets for the theatrical release in September 1975. The Chicago International Film Festival hosted a private screening for its members at the Esquire Theater. But Tribune columnist Maggie Daly wondered how the campy combination of science fiction and B-horror flaunted in fishnet stockings by Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry) would play here.

It bombed. The Tribune didn’t initially review the film. If it played locally, then the movie didn’t make the newspaper’s listings.

Yet successful stage versions — including the original at London’s Royal Court Theatre (from which many of the movie’s actors came) and another one by Lou Adle

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