Editing The Rocky Horror Picture Show (section)

===Concept and development===
[[File:Rocky Horror throne screencap.jpg|thumb|upright=1.60|Little Nell, Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry, and Richard O'Brien in ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show''. All were in the original stage show.]]

Richard O'Brien was living as an unemployed actor in [[London]] during the early 1970s. He wrote most of ''[[The Rocky Horror Show]]'' during one winter just to occupy himself.<ref name=Miller2011 /><ref name="Dika2003" /> Since his youth, O'Brien had loved [[science fiction]] and [[B movies|B horror movies]]. He wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, [[Steve Reeves]] muscle flicks, and fifties [[rock and roll]] into his musical.<ref name="AmericanMusical">{{cite book |last=Knapp |first=Raymond |url=https://archive.org/details/americanmusicalp00knap |title=The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity |date=2 March 2009 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-6911-4105-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/americanmusicalp00knap/page/n258 240] |url-access=registration}}</ref> O'Brien conceived and wrote the play set against the backdrop of the glam era that had manifested itself in British popular culture in the 1970s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Auslander |first=Philip |url=https://archive.org/details/performingglamro00ausl |title=Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/performingglamro00ausl/page/n61 49] |url-access=limited}}</ref> Allowing his concept to come into being, O'Brien states "[[glam rock]] allowed me to be myself more".<ref name="Glam era">{{cite book |last=Reynolds |first=Simon |title=Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KKupCgAAQBAJ&q=Shock+and+Awe:+Glam+Rock+and+Its+Legacy,+from+the+Seventies+to+the+Twenty-First+Century |date=11 October 2016 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=978-0-0622-7981-1 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

O'Brien showed a portion of the unfinished script to Australian director Jim Sharman, who decided to direct it at the small experimental space Upstairs at the [[Royal Court Theatre]] in [[Sloane Square]], [[Chelsea, London]], which was used as a project space for new work.<ref name=Miller2011/> O'Brien had appeared briefly in a stage production of [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'', directed by Sharman, and the two also worked together in [[Sam Shepard]]'s ''The Unseen Hand''. Sharman would bring in production designer [[Brian Thomson (scenic designer)|Brian Thomson]].<ref name="Eagan2009">{{cite book |first=Daniel |last=Eagan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2CIJFMMvx9MC&pg=PT2086 |title=America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry |date=26 November 2009 |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited |isbn=978-1-4411-7541-0 |page=2086}}</ref> The original creative team was then rounded out by costume designer [[Sue Blane]], musical director [[Richard Hartley (composer)|Richard Hartley]], and stage producer [[Michael White (producer)|Michael White]], who was brought in to produce. As the musical went into rehearsal, the working title, ''They Came from Denton High'', was changed just before previews at the suggestion of Sharman to ''The Rocky Horror Show''.<ref name=Miller2011 /><ref>{{cite book| last=Thomson| first=Brian| year=1998| title=The Rocky Horror Scrapbook| location=New York| publisher=Interfishnet| page=6| isbn=978-0-2339-9581-6}}</ref>

Having premiered in the small 60-seat Royal Court Theatre, it quickly moved to larger venues in London, transferring to the 230-seat [[Chelsea Classic Cinema]] on [[King's Road]] on 14 August 1973, before finding a quasi-permanent home at the 500-seat King's Road Theatre from 3 November that year, running for six years.<ref name="Shuker">{{cite book |last=Shuker |first=Roy |url=https://archive.org/details/understandingpop0000shuk_i1i5 |title=Understanding popular music |date=1 November 1994 |publisher=Routledge |edition=annotated |isbn=978-0-415-10722-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/understandingpop0000shuk_i1i5/page/160 160] |url-access=registration}}</ref> The musical made its U.S. debut in [[Los Angeles]] in 1974 before playing in [[New York City]] as well as other cities.<ref name="Eagan2009" /> Producer and [[Ode Records]] owner Lou Adler attended the London production in the winter of 1973, escorted by friend [[Britt Ekland]]. He immediately decided to purchase the U.S. theatrical rights. His production would be staged at his [[Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood)|Roxy Theatre]] in L.A.<ref name="QuislingWilliams2003">{{cite book |first1=Erik |last1=Quisling |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9SwyVx4d8EC&pg=PT245 |title=Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip |first2=Austin Lowry |last2=Williams |year=2003 |publisher=Bonus Books |isbn=978-1-5662-5197-6 |page=245}}</ref> In 1975, ''The Rocky Horror Show'' premiered on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] at the 1,000-seat [[Belasco Theatre]].<ref name="BottoViagas2002">{{cite ATT Broadway |page=33}}</ref>