The Blue Mouseketeers is the oldest and only Rocky Horror Picture Show shadow cast in Tacoma and includes members of all ages and backgrounds. The Historic Blue Mouse Theatre near 26th and Proctor has been proudly featuring the midnight shows on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month. An average audience of 106 people attends each show with the Halloween shows averaging 200 guests. Audience members range from teenagers going to their first show all the way to regulars who have been watching the cult classic since its release in 1975. Currently the primary method of fundraising for the cast is the selling of prop bags, which includes items for audience to use and throw during the show. The cast started in 1989 as Enchante at the Lincoln Plaza Theater before moving to the Blue Mouse in 2000 and eventually changed their name to honor their new home. Recently the cast has expanded to performing at community events, including Out in Tacoma, Seattle Pride Festival and the Thurston County Fairgrounds Haunted Fairgrounds. This Tacoma tradition wouldn't have survived this long without the dedication of it's cast and the support of the local community.
From an experimental production in a small London theater to a smash international stage hit to a major motion picture, all in the space of 18 months! That's the exciting history of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a Lou Adler/Michael White musical production for 20th Century-Fox. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an outrageous assemblage of the most stereotyped science fiction movies, Marvel comics, Frankie Avalon/Anette Funichello outings and rock n' roll of every vintage. Running through the story is the sexual confusion of two middle American "Ike Age" kids confronted by the complications of the decadent morality of the 70s, represented in the person of the mad "doctor" Frank N Furter, a transvestite from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania.