Rocky Horror Denver

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About us

Colorado’s Elusive Ingredient (CEI) is the largest and longest running shadowcast in Colorado. Touting achievements such as holding the world record for most tickets sold to a Rocky Horror Picture Show showing, selling out Red Rocks, the Boulder Theater, the PACE center, and performing in one of only FOUR CITIES that have been showing RHPS monthly since it came out in 1975.

Rocky Horror Virgins stand on stage, wrapping eachother with toilet paper

Virgins

Newbies to the show will be marked with a V and be asked to join us on stage for some fun!

We emphasize consent and give everyone a chance to opt out of anything they’re uncomfortable with or don’t want to participate in.

What to expect

Audience Participation

Audience members come dressed up and ready to get out of their seats. During the movie the audience will be yelling, getting up to dance, and use our prop bags ($5) to interact with the show.

Pre-Show

Often times before the show starts you will get to catch a short pre-show performance in which the cast will lip sync to a song or a comedy bit.

FAQs

  • Almost anything you want. Every show has a mix of audience members wearing regular day clothes, costumes of their favorite characters in the movie, harnesses, dresses, pup masks, pajamas, straight up lingerie, and cosplays completely unrelated to Rocky Horror.

    Please have your genitals completely covered, and check the show description for theme night information, and venue specific dress code (some of our larger shows require nipples to be covered, regardless of your gender

  • You don’t have to bring anything other than your amazing self (and your ticket). We always have prop bags available for sale, packed full of all the audience participation essentials.

    If you want to step up your prop game, you can bring paper plates to throw during dinner, or a bell to ring while frank chases Janet. If you really want to step up your game, bring yourself and four friends, each with boards and letters spelling out J A N E T to put up during “dammit Janet”

  • To protect our theater, sensitive equipment, sensitive performers, and our audience, we do have a few rules of what you can and can not bring to our show.

    Don’t fucking throw rice. We don’t want to clean it up, you don’t want to clean it up, it’s a tripping hazard for our performers running around in heels, and we don’t want rats in our theaters.

    On that note, don’t bring food of any kind to throw, no toast, no hot dogs.

    No water devices (unless they’re attached to your body).

    No open flames (don’t pull out your lighter for there’s a light. We don't want to get on the wrong side of the fire department).

    No weapons, unless they’re attached to your body.

    No popping devices. Balloons, confetti poppers, condoms you blow up and pop, etc. We’ll be be popping enough cherries to leave your ears ringing.

    And finally, please no outside drinks.

  • We have prop bags for sale at every one of our shows for $5. Inside you’ll find a newspaper, a glowstick, a rubber glove, a noisemaker, toilet paper, playing cards, and a condom

  • At our show, a Virgin is anyone who has not seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show movie in a theater with a live shadowcast (that’s a group of people “shadowing” what’s happening in the movie). If you’ve seen the movie at home, that’s masturbating, you’re still a virgin.

    Our team will ask everyone who enters the theater if they’ve seen the show before, and if you haven’t, we’ll mark your face (or hand or chest, or wherever you perfer) with a lipstick V, and once the show starts, we’ll pull you up on stage for a game or bit to pop your Rocky cherry.

    That said, consent is a huge part of our show, we’ll be checking if you’re comfortable for everything we ask of you, and you can opt out of anything you don’t want to do.

  • That’s totally fine! Consent is one of the core tenants of how we run our show. Anytime one of our performers is getting close, or asking you to do something, and you don’t want to interact, put your arms over your chest in an “X”, or just say no, and we’ll pass on.

  • We have occasional 18+ and 21+ shows, but most follow R+ rated movie rules.

    If you plan to bring your child, only you as their parent will know when they’re ready to see our sort of show. Please read through this whole page, and be aware most shows have our performers in only underwear or lingerie, we usually start with a performer stripping to just pasties, and have sexual jokes throughout the show. There are scenes where (clothed) performers mimic sex. And although our cast emphasizes enthusiastic consent, the original movie does have some scenes with dubious consent.

    We also ask that underage audience members keep away from the very front row and the isle seats near the front of the theater, for the comfort of our performers.

  • Check out our cast application! Please note, our waiting list is around 6 months before we get back to you.

  • Bring cash tips! Drag rules apply.

    If you want to support our cast as a whole, so we can improve our props, buy pizza for rehearsals, and generally keep things running, you can buy throwbags, merch, or tip us directly at the merch table!