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The Full Rocky at Celebration! Cinema North & IMAX Grand Rapids MI 08/07/16

Denton High Drama Club Harbor Cinema Muskegon MI

The Full Rocky Switch Night Celebration! Cinema North & IMAX Grand Rapids MI

Leadership Roles

Assistant Director of The Denton High Drama Club January 2018 Director of The Denton High Drama Club May 2018

Cast Affiliations

• The Denton High Drama Club

Roles Played

• Brad Majors
• Janet Weiss
• The Criminologist
• Riff Raff
• Emcee

DeVirginization

• August7, 2016 Which was also the first show he performed with a shadowcast.

Cast History

Michael Baribeau born 1964 employed at a bank call center Grand Rapids Michigan. Active in small community theater. Introduced to RHPS back in high school in the 1980's Michael says it's actually nostalgic for him and that it's a great party and escapism like Mardi Gras, plus you get to meet some of the most wonderful people in the world. In the shadow cast usually playing the character Brad but working on his bingo card of characters played which, to date, include Brad, Janet, Crim, and show MC as well as Director for The Denton High Drama Club at Harbor Cinema in Muskegon MI. and is an alumni for The Full Rocky at the monthly late night showing Last Call at Celebration Cinema North and IMAX.

Dubbed the nick name Sweet Pea when at the first cast rehearsal of Denton High Drama Club and before it started several members were getting coffee and pop at a local convenience store. The clerk referred to each cast member/customer as the affectionate name 'sweet pea' but when Michael stepped up to the counter she instead addressed him as, 'you need to spend more than $5 to use a debit card', this made Sammy Scrivener blow ice coffee out her nose and Jamie Arnold-Page nick named him Sweet Pea.

It appealed to him on several levels. The movie by its self is a silly campy musical parody of B-rated scifi movies although with endearing acting like from the SNL/monty-python era. But the real fun is watching it in a theater with 'audience participation' callbacks. Now all these years later more local shadow cast are forming, being able to watch the show more often, learn the audience participation lines and be able to interact like everyone else and with everyone else. An RHPS shadow cast and audience participation embrace vulgarity and the outrageous, bucking the establishment and it's hypocrisy. The audience members dress in cosplay of the movie characters, one of the hallmark outfits being dark corsets, heels, and fishnet stockings, for all sexes, and also for those who want to dress in drag and be in a friendly environment. The lead character is Dr. Frank-N-Furter (a parody of Dr. Frankenstein) 'just a Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania'. Frank is the charismatic sweet transvestite while also being a murderous mad scientist that we love to watch turn the establishment on its head as 'queen' of the rebels. Brad and Janet represent the norms trying to fit in and the hypocrisy being rebelled against. It's all just good dirty fun but for tamer tastes try a showing without the shadow cast. As for how it used to be there's a YouTube recording of Say It! The Rocky Horror Picture Show Audience Participation Album. Original Release Date: September 26, 1975 that was also pretty racy... enjoy!

Reference Links

RHPS Shadowcast map

List of All Rocky Horror Cast Names

RHPS Say It! 1975 Audience Participation Audio only on youtube
(the video automatically starts playing 45 seconds into the video so reset video to very beginning to catch emcee by Rocky Horror Legend Sal Piro also a Rockypedia link here. )

Rockypedia, The RHPS FAQ (useful site for shadowcasts)

RHPS Costumes and Wig Info (once there scroll to the bottom)

RHPS Characters including Trixie the usherette

Callback Script VT 2011 Edition

Rocky Horror Picture Show Audience Participation Script

The Virgin’s Guide to Rocky Horror Callouts

Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Wiki Info & News (previously http://rocky-horror-picture-show.wikia.com)

RHPS Official Fan Club Facebook Page

RHPS Official Fan Club Facebook Community

RHPS Cosmos Factory (dated and partially defunct)

RHPS Official Fan Club Website (mostly defunct)

Muskegon Celebration! Cinema Plaza 1&2

Harbor Cinema, Cinema Treasures

Convention History

Guest Performances

Awards