‘The Rocky Horror Show’ Rewards Your Sense of Antici…pation
[Luke Evans’] magnetism is off the charts: Pinkleton can, more or less, point him at the audience and fire him like a cannon. Evans towers over the rest of the cast in skyscraper boots, his long hair slicked wetly down his back and his chest playing peek-a-boo above his latex corset. Won’t someone, anyone, love him? Half of the orchestra nearly followed him out when he ran off for intermission.
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