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THEf OF IT ALL Cm i PaperWing Theatre Co. does 'Rocky Horror' in Oldtown. Dress appropriately. Koly McBride-Moore, PaperWing's owner and artistic director. Writers created the work "as a parody of sci-fi movies of the 1950s with a sexual twist at the end," she said.

"It's an American pop culture classic." The show is also a musical, and The Super Pineapples, a rock band from Santa Cruz, plays the tunes. In the story, a character named Janet accepts Brad's proposal of marriage. The blissful couple sets off in their car. They get lost the rain and age 18, she'd dress as Janet Td act out the movie in front of the actual movie," she said. When Brewer first started playing his Frank N.

Furter role in Salinas, the fans shouting lines distracted him, but he's adjusted his timing to accommodate their outbursts. Theater patrons also bring items from a select list They throw rice, for example, at Brad and Janet's wedding. They bring toast because the doctor proposes a "toast" at dinner. Dressing up, shouting out and throwing rice are not required. The calmest of audiences seems to show for Sunday's performances, Brewer said.

"Theater should be fun and transport you into fantasy, and this definitely is fantasy," McBride-Moore said. "This takes you so far away from pretentious theater." nia, the butler, Riff Raff; and Magenta, the maid, reveal their own plans. "The Rocky Horror Show" first emerged in the early 1970s as a play in London. In 1975, the movie debuted. Mick Jagger had wanted to play Dr.

Frank N. Furter, but the spiked heels went to Tim Curry, who originated the on-stage role. Susan Sarandon and Meatloaf also star. Critics booed and hissed the effort South Africa banned the movie as too demented, "It bombed," McBride-Moore said. "It was so bad." Yet where critics saw campy celluloid crudity, fans saw art Theaters started running the film at midnight Lines formed, and movie-goers felt moved to shout at the screen.

The rest is cinematic history. As a girl in Los Angeles, McBride-Moore got swept up in the current Every Saturday night from age 16 to In any house of fashion, Lloyd Brewer's onstage costume garter belt, fishnet stockings and corset qualifies as offbeat But then so does The Rocky Horror Show." It's a cult classic in which Brewer, 41, paints his nails, puts on spiked heels and becomes Dr. Frank N. Furter. "On stage, I become an ego-maniac and sex addict," said Brewer, part of the cast of 30.

A PaperWing Theatre Co. production, "The Rocky Horror Show" is now at the Fox Theatre. "The Rocky Horror Show," around for nearly 35 years, occupies its own space. Fans can dress like the actors. They can shout out the actors' lines.

That breaking of the barrier that often divides cast from audience is part of "Rocky Horror's" cult charm, said happen upon the castle of Dr. Frank N. Furter. He's holding a convention of visitors from the planet of Transsexual. Dr.

Frank N. Furter also has created Rocky Horror, a young maa His creation fears the doctor at the same time he rejects his sexual advances. When Frank N. Furter says he's going back to the galaxy of Transylva- What: "The Rocky Horror Show" Where: Fox Theatre, 243 Main Salinas When: 8 p.m. Fridays, 8 p.m.

and midnight Saturdays, and 7 p.m. Sunday through Oct. 31 Tickets: $17 at the theater box office, beginning one hour before performances, or at First Awakenings, 171 Main St. Special midnight show: Oct. 31, box office opens at 10:30 p.m.

Running time: 1:40 Insider's tip: Come in costume. Audience participation is encouraged. Ages: Because of sexual content and mature subject matter, the play gets a PG-13 from its director..