NEW ALIEN LANDING IN FRANK-N-FURTER’S CASTLE

 

NEW ALIEN LANDING IN FRANK-N-FURTER’S CASTLE

Sherie Rene Scott Is Ready to Do the Time Warp

There are some Broadway entrances that call for a spotlight. Others require fishnets, a wink, and possibly a lightning strike.

Sherie Rene Scott, the three-time Tony Award nominee known for Everyday Rapture, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Last Five Years, will join the Broadway revival of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show as Magenta beginning Friday, June 26, at Studio 54.

She steps into the role following Juliette Lewis, who will give her final performance on Tuesday, June 16. Current understudy Anania will play Magenta from June 17 through June 25.

Directed by Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton, the current revival has turned Studio 54 into something between a rock concert, a midnight movie screening, a costume party, and a group therapy session for anyone who has ever felt a little too strange for daylight hours. Which is to say: Rocky Horror is exactly where it belongs.

Scott joins a cast that already feels engineered for maximum theatrical mischief: Rachel Dratch as the Narrator, Andrew Durand as Brad, Luke Evans as Frank-N-Furter, Amber Gray as Riff Raff, Harvey Guillén as Eddie and Dr. Scott, Stephanie Hsu as Janet, Josh Rivera as Rocky and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez as Columbia. The ensemble also includes Renée Albulario, Anania, Boy Radio, Caleb Quezon, Andres Quintero, Larkin Reilly, Paul Soileau, and John Yi.

The production began previews March 26 and officially opened April 23 at Studio 54, where it is currently on sale through Nov. 29, 2026. The creative team includes choreography by Ani Taj, music supervision by Kris Kukul, scenic design by dots, costume design by David I. Reynoso, lighting design by Jane Cox, sound design by Brian Ronan, wig and hair design by Alberto “Albee” Alvarado and makeup design by Sterling Tull. Bryan Bauer serves as production stage manager.

The revival has not exactly been lurking quietly in the castle. It earned nine Tony Award nominations, including best musical revival, along with six Drama Desk nominations, four Drama League nominations, two Outer Critics Circle nominations, and two Chita Rivera Award nominations, including outstanding choreography and outstanding ensemble in a Broadway show.

For Scott, Magenta seems like a delicious fit: a role that requires glamour, deadpan menace, vocal bite and the ability to suggest that she knows more than everyone else in the room — because, of course, she does.

Since its debut at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1973, The Rocky Horror Show has become one of the theater’s most durable and disreputable pleasures. The stage musical has been in continuous production around the world for more than five decades, and the 1975 film adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, turned the material into a midnight-movie ritual with its own call-and-response culture, costume code, and cult-like devotion.

The plot, for the uninitiated or the merely innocent, follows Brad and Janet, two very clean-cut college sweethearts whose car breaks down outside a mysterious mansion. Inside, they encounter Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Riff Raff, Columbia, Magenta, Eddie, Rocky, and a world that has very little interest in keeping Brad and Janet clean-cut for long.

The score remains one of musical theater’s great engines of controlled chaos, with “Dammit Janet,” “Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me,” “Hot Patootie” and, inevitably, “Time Warp,” the number that has probably done more for group participation than most office retreats.

The Broadway revival is presented by Roundabout Theatre Company, Trafalgar Entertainment, and the Dodgers.

Tickets are available online, by phone at 212-719-1300, or in person at the Studio 54 box office. A limited number of $30 rush and lottery tickets are also available, with in-person rush at the box office and a digital lottery through TodayTix.

In other words: don’t dream it. Be it. Or at least get a ticket before someone else in better eyeliner does.

CRITIC’S PICK! "THE POINT OF ROCKY HORROR IS TO LOSE CONTROL. C’MON, LET’S DO IT AGAIN.”  

-Helen Shaw, The New York Times

 

“WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE ROCKY HORROR? THIS FABULOUS, FREAKY MUSICAL IS A GIFT FOR EVERYONE.” 

-Sara Holdren, New York Magazine

 

“THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW IS A BLAST! GIVE YOURSELF OVER TO ABSOLUTE PLEASURE.” 

-Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker

 

"AN EXUBERANT REVIVAL FEATURING A KILLER CAST." 

-Adam Feldman, Time Out

 

"A VIVACIOUS, MUCH NEEDED TIME WARP." 

-Greg Evans, Deadline

 

“IF YOU WANT TO GIVE YOURSELF OVER TO ABSOLUTE PLEASURE, THEN YOU’VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE.” -

Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly

 

“A DELIRIOUSLY, DELICIOUSLY ABSURD AFFAIR.” 

-Vogue

 

“‘DON’T DREAM IT, BE IT’ IS THIS PRODUCTION’S NORTH STAR: STOP WASTING YOUR LIFE AND BE WHO YOU ARE NOW.” 

-Vogue