Royal Court, London SW1
Never mind the kitchen sinks, it's all about the suspenders. An audience poll at the Royal Court revealed that the public's favourite show of the theatre's 50-year history is The Rocky Horror Show, first performed upstairs in 1973. Arriving for the celebrity gala last week, it's not hard to see why; audiences for Look Back in Anger rarely turned out in their underwear with such gusto. The Amnesty benefit was not the full stage show - for that you'll have to catch the current tour - more of a romp through the songs with guest narration by Tony Slattery , Robin Cousins , Steve Pemberton , Jamie Theakston and Christopher Biggins.
But it opened with a moment of vintage Rocky history: Richard O'Brien introducing Patricia Quinn to sing 'Science Fiction', just as she did 33 years ago, her voice and glamour undiminished. The same is not quite true of Rayner Bourton; now suavely middle-aged, it's hard to picture him as the gleaming muscle-bound Rocky of the original. Adrian Edmondson and Toyah Wilcox threw themselves into the roles of Brad and Magenta, but the show was rightly stolen by Anthony Head as Frank N Furter. For those who knew him best as the squeaky-clean Blair-alike from Little Britain, that voice and that high-octane camp were a revelation.
