Arts & Entertainment
'Rocky Horror Picture Show' Coming To OCC, Complete With Rice & Toast
"Time Warp" back to your teenage years with the campy horror movie that encourages audience participation, just in time for Halloween.
TOMS RIVER, NJ — It's time to do the Time Warp again, just in time for Halloween: The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" is coming to Ocean County College, complete with the audience participation and a costumed cast.
If you ever took in a midnight showing of the campy horror musical in the 1980s or 1990s, the showing set for Oct. 29 at the Grunin Performing Arts Center will bring back all those memories.
The showing at the Grunin Center includes the shadow cast from Friday Nite Specials, whose members dress up like Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Brad and Janet, Rocky and more.
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In the 1980s the movie found a second life as a cult classic, and people would bring rice and toast, newspapers and squirt guns and sing along, speak the lines and generally have a campy time. For the showing at the Grunin Center, you don't need to pack your own props but there will be approved prop bags for sale that include rice, toast, toilet paper, playing cards, newspaper, confetti, party blowers, glow sticks, rubber gloves, and paper plates, according to the Grunin Center.
(This is probably a good thing as the Grunin Center is a much nicer venue than Cinema Alley, the second-run movie theater that was next to the former Bob Kislin's Sporting Goods, now the Habitat ReStore, which held midnight showings of the movie. You were warned not to wear good clothes when you went. The Cinema Treasures website includes a description calling it "easily the sketchiest movie theater in Toms River." It closed in 1991, with "Rocky Horror Picture Show" as its last film showing.)
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For those not familiar, "Rocky Horror Picture Show" is rated R for its horror content and sexual themes.
Tickets to the show at the Grunin Center are $25 per person, and there is a costume contest before the show. You can purchase tickets on the Grunin Center website.
Friday Nite Specials, which is based at the Basie Center in Red Bank, has other showings and performances scheduled throughout October. More information is on their website.
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