["The Rocky Horror Show"] has something in common with Ronald Tavel's "Gorilla Queen," or other American movie spoofs of that genre….

[The] idea is a bright one. It is a mixture of a rock show and horror movie. Two young innocents are entrapped by Frank-N-Furter, a mad, transvestite inventor from outer space, who has created a beefcake monster, Rocky Horror, who looks as though he has just stepped from the centerfold of Playgirl.

It is a cheerfully derivative show, with happy music and a few funny dirty jokes. With its wit and cant, I suspect that this is the kind of show that, modestly produced, might do rather well in New York.

Clive Barnes, "Stage: 'Rocky Horror Show' Is the 'In' Thing," in The New York Times (© 1973 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), September 14, 1973 (and reprinted in The New York Times Theatre Reviews, The New...