US News Metro Long Island Politics

Sports NFL MLB Olympics NBA NHL College Football College Basketball WNBA

Business Personal Finance

Entertainment TV Movies Music Celebrities Awards Theater

Lifestyle Weird But True Sex & Relationships Viral Trends Human Interest Parenting Fashion & Beauty Food & Drink Travel

Health Wellness Fitness Health Care Medicine Men’s Health Women’s Health Mental Health Nutrition

Science Space Environment Wildlife Archaeology

Today’s Paper Covers Columnists Horoscopes Crosswords & Games Sports Odds Podcasts Careers

Email Newsletters Official Store Home Delivery Tips

Switch between CA and NY editions here.

Buzzkill ‘Rocky Horror’ proves Broadway has totally lost the plot

They’re coming for the “Time Warp” — but getting a scolding.Audiences for the Broadway revival of “The Rocky Horror Show” are being confronted with buzz-killing warnings against shouting out the hilarious call-backs and tossing around the iconic props that are the main reasons for the rollicking musical’s enduring popularity.No more throwing toast when the actors raise their glasses to propose one.

Tossing rice during the wedding scene is verboten.

Forget jumping to the left and stepping to the right.

Dancing the “Time Warp” in the aisles is in the rear view.

Better leave your Riff Raff and Magenta costumes at home.No more fun.Self-serious management at Studio 54, where the show is being staged, are bleeding the joy out of a theater experience that energized legions of misfits, freaks and suburban wannabes.

All of us flocked to midnight screenings of the movie spinoff, as well as to live theater productions from here to London, to indulge in a subversive taste of raunch and rock ‘n’ roll.I, for one, grew up subwaying it from Queens to Greenwich Village or the Upper West Side armed with the trinkets........

© New York Post