A box office disappointment at first, the film hit its stride when a low-level 20th Century Fox executive convinced his boss to test it as a midnight cult movie, resulting in a sudden cultural phenomenon, complete with rabid fans lining up each week dressed as their favorite characters, singing and dancing along with the songs, and shouting made-up lines at the screen while throwing various objects at the screen like rice and toast during the wedding scene. Because of the stage musical's popular success, Curry reprised his role for the 1975 film adaptation. As things grow weirder by the minute, thanks to encounters with Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), Magenta (Patricia Quinn) and a biker named Eddie (Meatloaf), the couple soon realizes that they may become the next experiment for the demented Frank-N-Furter. Frank-N-Furter, a flamboyant transsexual scientist who gives refuge to a stranded All-American couple (Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick) in a bizarre castle that is populated by a host of strangely-clad partygoers.
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Having transitioned from singing to acting, Curry made his professional debut as Woof in a West End production of "Hair" (1968), soon after which he appeared in a Scottish opera company tour of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." But it was on "Hair" that Curry met writer Richard O'Brien, who wrote the one part that both propelled the actor's career to a new level but became a career albatross for the rest of his life.Originally written as a stage musical in 1973, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" was long considered by Curry to be his ticket to fame, for better or worse.
Meanwhile, Curry moved on to Birmingham University to study both literature and performing arts.
With the family relocated to Bath near the west coast of England, Curry attended Kingswood School, where he first met director Jonathan Lynn with whom he would work decades later. He attended Lymm High School until his father suddenly died when he was 12. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Hong Kong, only to return to England, where the young Curry began performing as a boy soprano in a church choir when he was around six years old. Born in Grappenhall, Warrington, England, Curry was raised by his father, James, a Methodist chaplain in the Royal Navy, and his mother, Patricia, a school secretary.
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