History of Rocky Horror in the Twin Cities

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been in the Twin Cities since the late 1970's. IT has been shown with and without casts at:

• The Uptown Theater in Minneapolis
• The Heights Theater in Columbia Heights
• The Riverview Theater in Minneapolis
• The Mounds Theater in St. Paul
• Various events and occasions (including showings at SCSU in St. Cloud. PRIDE parades, The Gay 90's, and others).

Before Transvestite Soup there was a number of other casts that performed at the Uptown and Heights theaters. Naming shadow casts was not a common practice in the early stages of Rocky, so most of these older casts did not have any name. The most recent cast before Transvestite Soup was named Midnight Madness.

Transvestite Soup began performing at the Riverview Theater in late 1998. When it started shows were every Saturday night. During the run (2004?) there was a six month hiatus from the Riverview and Transvestite Soup was homeless. The Riverview brought Rocky back for performances twice per month until April of 2008. Our final performance on April 5, 2008 was almost a sellout with over 600 people in attendance. Loren, the owner of the Riverview, presented Rockymom with a gift of one of the theater's front row seats.

Until this point we have one of the very, very few reels that was Mono (when the movie was converted to Stereo there were some synchronization issues) and had the Superheroes ending.

Transvestite Soup was homeless for a period until the Mounds Theater in St. Paul picked us up and we performed there from April 2008 through Halloween 2008.

We went a year homeless again until we were able to return home to the Uptown Theater in Minneapolis for a comeback Halloween weekend in 2009.