The Audience Participation How-To Guide

What's This All About?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is unlike most of the other movies that you'll see in conventional theaters. There is a time and a place for everything, and the time for yelling and throwing things in a movie theater is Rocky. This is known as "audience participation". This may or may not be usefull. The key rules of flinging is not to throw stuff at the cast, the screen or the tech systems. The audience is fair game. Sh!t Bags are also available for a donation at the show.

What Do I Bring?
The following items are all kid tested, mother approved.
Toast
Playing Cards
Toilet Paper
Flashlights
Glowsticks
Newspapers
Party Noise Makers
Latex/Rubber Gloves
Bells
Water Pistols (small)
Sponges
Paper Confetti

The Forbidden List
Rice
Super Soakers
Open Flames
Weapons
The Necronomicon
Drugs
Alcohol
Glass Bottles

The words "The Forbidden List" is bold, bigger and in a different color so there should be no excuses

When Do I Fling?
If you want to get a head start on the Rocky Horror experience. Take these cues and practice it at home throwing things at your Dad's new Plasma screen. He'll thank you for it.

Toast (Don't Eat the Toast)
At the "dinner scene" Frank holds up a cup of wine and calls for "A Toast!" Fling
For Optimum Flinging: Shout "TO CANABALISM!"

Playing Cards
During the song "I'm Going Home" Frank sings a line about "Cards for Sorrow", and "Cards for Pain" Fling
For Optimum Flinging: There are two lines, Sorrow and Pain. Save half for each. If you miss Sorrow, you've still got Pain.

Toilet Paper (Bathroom Tissue)
As Dr. Scott comes rolling thru the house for the first time. Prepare your rolls. As he crashes thru the wall and Brad yells "Great Scott!" Fling
For Optimum Flinging: Prepare once you see the dude in the wheel chair, once he hits the wall, its Halloween night.

Flashlights/Glowsticks
Not really Flinging per say, what you do is during the song, "Over At The Frankenstein Place", during the lyrics "there's a light" hold them up for others to feel as if there is in fact, a light. Glowsticks also make for great lightswitch raves.
For Optimum Flinging: Please do not throw these. There, legal disclaimer done.

Water Pistols
During the beginning of the song "Over At The Frankenstein Place" its raining, this is the time to squirt audience members.
For Optimum Flinging: The ones protecting themselves with newspapers really don't realize that a soggy newpaper scrap offers little protection from the rainfall.

Newspapers
During the beginning of the song "Over At The Frankenstein Place" its raining, this is the time to cover your head as people will be squirting water at you, the audience member.
For Optimum Flinging: The soggy little newspaper scrap offers a great deal of protection from the rainfall.

Party Noise Makers
The creation scene has the Transylvanians gathering around celebrating with what looks like leftovers from New Years Eve. Not very interesting but when they party, you party!
For Optimum Flinging: There's always someone on the car ride home who thinks its funny to keep playing with the damn thing. Next time just don't invite them.

Latex/Rubber Gloves
During the creation scene, twice Frank snaps his rubber gloves. For a creepy effect, try and snap your rubber gloves at the same time. When enough people do this, you really feel like you're a part of something mildly interesting.
For Optimum Flinging: Stretch the middle finger part over your thumb and with the other hand stretch back the rest of the glove. Fling

Bells
This one's tricky. During the song which directly follows the dinner scene there's a lyric "do you hear a bell ring?"
For Optimum Flinging: Keys dangling work well in a pinch because nobody remembers bells

Sponges
In the scene which Colombia tells her feelings to Frank, she says, "you're like a sponge, you take, take and drain others of their love and emotion" Fling
For Optimum Flinging: Take, Take are good cues to throw sponges

Paper Confetti
During the "I Can Make You a Man Reprise" Rocky and Frank go to their honeymoon suite to uh,...dance. People throw confetti here. Fling Also, during the wedding in the beginning, you may throw paper confetti here too. Fling And at the end when the imaginary crowd gives Frank a standing ovation, this is good too. Fling
For Optimum Flinging: Its not as appropriate to fling confetti whenever somebody dies onscreen. But you're an adult, you can make these decisions on your own.

Make Your Own AP Line
If there's one thing that makes an interactive show more interactive, its you. So try some new things. Instead of toast, throw a bagel. Have some great line in the movie where you go "would you like fries with that?!" and you throw a load of french fries for some reason? Okay, the important thing to remember is that not everything is going to work. Ask a cast member if something is appropriate or not. If nobody hears you or understands the joke, the joke will die. If it's clever and catchy, we may have a new phenominon. After all, somebody came up with toilet paper.

What are Sh!t Bags?
Sh!t Bags are bags of sh!t to fling at a show. Most bags include a varying assortment of toast, toilet paper, cards, sponges, gloves, newspapers and other goodies. While audience members are encouraged to bring their own items, sh!t bags are given out with a donation of a dollar or more, procedes going towards the cast, and are very convenient. So please, donate.