SCENE FIVE
“JANET’S ROOM”
Voices in BLACKOUT.
JANET’S:
Oh Brad – Oh yes – Yes my darling –
What if..
BRAD’S:
It’s all right Janet – everything’s going to be all right.
JANET’S:
Oh I hope so my darling. I’m so fri…
(Lights UP)
You!
FRANK:
I’m afraid so Janet but wasn’t it nice…
JANET:
You beast – you monster – what have you done with Brad?
FRANK: Mmm – nothing – why, do you think I should?
JANET: You tricked me – I wouldn’t have – I’ve never –
never.
FRANK: I know – but it wasn’t all bad was it?
Not really even half bad – in fact, I think perhaps
you found it quite – pleasurable – Mmm – so soft
so – sensual.
JANET: Ahh – no – stop – I mean help – I – Brad – Ohhhh –
Brad.
FRANK: Shhh. Brad’s probably asleep by now – do you
wan’t him to see you like this.
JANET: Like this? Like how? It’s your fault you’re to
blame… I was – saving my self.
FRANK: Well I’m sure you’re not spent yet and it was an
enjoyable experience was it not?
(Lights DIM)
You did like it didn’t you. There’s no crime in
giving yourself over to pleasure – is there?
We could try for an action replay – Oh Janet
you’ve wasted so much time already – Brad needn’t
know. I won’t tell him, Mmmm.
(BLACKOUT)
JANET: Are you sure you won’t tell him. Ohhh…
SCENE SIX
“BRAD’S ROOM”
Voices in BLACKOUT.
JANET’S: Oh Brad – Oh yet – Yes my darling.
BRAD’S: It’s all right Janet everything’s going to be all
right.
JANET’S: I hope so my darling.
(Lights UP)
BRAD: You!
FRANK: I’m afraid so Brad – but wasn’t it nice.
BRAD: Why you – What have you done with Janet?
FRANK: Mmm – nothing – why, do you think I should?
BRAD: You tricked me, I wouldn’t have – I’ve never –
never.
FRANK: I know – but it wasn’t all bad was it? Not really
even half bad, in fact, I think you found it quite
pleasurable – Oh so soft – so sensual.
BRAD: Ah. No – stop. I mean – Janet – Ohh Janet.
FRANK: Shhh – Janet’s probably asleep by now – Do you
want her to see you like this?
BRAD: Like this – Like how – It’s your fault. You’re
to blame – I thought it was the real thing.
FRANK: A bottle of coke? Oh come on Brad admit it. It
was enjoyable wasn’t it? You liked it didn’t you?
There’s no crime in giving yourself over to
pleasure – is there?
(Lights DIM)
We could try for an action replay. Oh Brad you’ve
wasted so much time already – Janet needn’t know.
I won’t tell her – Mmm…
(Blackout)
BRAD: Are you sure you won’t tell her – Ohhh…
RIFF RAFF: (on intercom) Master – The labooratory is empty.
Rocky has vanished – the new playmate is loose
and somewhere in the building.
FRANK: Oh – Wow – What a – Mmm – Oh – Coming.
SCENE SEVEN
Laboratory. Enter JANET.
JANET: What’s happening here – Where’s Brad? – Where’s
anybody? If only we hadn’t made this journey – if
only the car hadn’t broken down – if only we were
amongst friends or sane persons.
NARRATOR: “If” and “only” – two small words – words that kept
repeating themselves again and again in Janet’s
thoughts – but it was too late to go back now – it
were as if she were riding a giant tidal wave, it
would be folly to fight against it – her only chance
would be to ride it out – adapt – and perhaps also –
survive.
(Enter ROCKY)
ROCKY: Oh! It’s you – look I’m trying to hide from my
creator and his minion – they scare me – I feel
that all is not well here. I have been thinking a
lot about – (Eddie) I have a feeling of foreboding.
JANET: It’s all like some terrible dream.
ROCKY: Is it true you don’t like men with too many muscles?
JANET: Well…
ROCKY: Have you got any lip gloss?
JANET: I’m engaged to Brad, just the same as Betty Munroe was
to Ralf Hapshatt. But Frank’s kisses overwhelmed
me with an ecstasy I had never dreamed of before –
hot burning kisses – I could see Brad’s face before
me, and my mind screamed – No!! – but my lips
were hungry, too hungry – I wanted to be loved,
and loved completely – my body throbbed excitedly –
Oh Brad, Brad my darling how could I have done
this to you.
ROCKY: This room is a womb to me.
JANET: Yes – there you see, it’s instinctive – you returned
here for one thing – security. Oh where’s Brad –
(She fiddles with TV monitor)
What have they done with him?
NARRATOR: Janet’s feelings ran wild as she frantically manipu-
lated the selector switch on the T.V. monitor – The
screen threw up images of empty rooms and corridors –
finally she stopped – at Frank’s bedroom.
(sees FRANK kissing BRAD) Aaahhh!!
ROCKY: Oh you can’t rely on anyone.
JANET: Oh Brad! – how could you?
NARRATOR: If one is suffering the pangs of remorse for a
sexual indiscretion – it ould seem logical that the
transgressor would be sympathetic toward a loved
one caught in a similar misdemeanour – But emotion
is an irrational and powerful master – and from what
Janet witnessed on the monitor – there seemed little
doubt that she was indeed its slave.
JANET: I was feeling done in
Coudn’t win
I’d only ever kissed before
I thought there’s no use getting
into heavy petting
It only leads to trouble
And seat wetting.
Now all I want to know
Is how to go
I’ve tasted blood and I want more
I’ll put up no resistance
I want to stay the distance
I’ve got an itch to scratch
And I need assistance
CHORUS: Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a – Touch me.
I want to be dirty
Thrill me chill me fulfil me
Creature of the night.
Then if anything grows
When you pose
I’ll oil you up and rub you down
And that’s just one small fraction
Of the main attraction
You need a friendly hand
And I need action.
REPEATS.
(CHORUS. After Janet has sung it at least once
by herself, ROCKY comes in with (“Hot Patootie
Bless My Soul, I Really Love that Rock and Roll”)
and sings it against Touch-a Touch-a etc.)
BLACKOUT
SCENE EIGHT
RIFF RAFF: Aaaggghhh – Mercy!
FRANK: (with whip) How did it happen – I understood you
were to be watching.
RIFF RAFF: I was only away for a moment.
FRANK: See if you can find him on the monitor.
(Click – Brad’s empty room –
switch – switch – switch –
Janet’s room)
FRANK: Oh Bradlette
RIFF RAFF: I’ve located him in the female’s quarters, Master.
FRANK: Rocky!!
BRAD: Janet!! How could she. That’s it – it’s over.
NARRATOR: Over! What was over? Not the night that was
certain. Brad and Janet’s engagement? Their love
for one another? Who could say – for questions such
as these are not to be answered by the academic
they must be left for the heart to solve and Brad
you may be sure, had plenty of heart.
BRAD: Once in a while
She don’t want to call you
Speaking on the telephone
And once in your life
She won’t want to know you
You look around
The one you found she is gone
And that’s all the time
That it takes
For a heart to turn to stone
The sweeter the wine
The harder to make the break
You hear someting
About someone you thought you’d known
So baby don’t cry
Like there’s no tomorrow
After the night there’s brand new day
And there’ll be no pain
And no more sorrow
So wash your face
And phone my place. It’ll be okay.
And that’s all the time
That it takes
For a heart to beat again
So give me a sign
That a lover makes
You look around the one
Found is back again…
FRANK: How maudlin – how pathetic – Your baggage has
dared to defile my beautiful creature – oh Rocky
how could you.
(Static – on monitor – outside –
a figure creeping toward hidden
camera)
RIFF RAFF: Master – we have a visitor
BRAD: Great Scott – Scotty – Dr. Evrett Scott.
RIFF RAFF: You know this earth – this person?
BRAD: Yes, I do he’s an old friend of mine.
FRANK: I see – so this wasn’t simply a chance meeting –
you came here with a purpose.
BRAD: That’s not true – my car broke down – I told you.
FRANK: I know what you told me, Brad – but this Dr.
Evrett Scott, his name is not unknown to me.
BRAD: He was a science teacher at Denton High.
FRANK: And he now works for your Government –
doesn’t he, Brad? He’s attached to the bureau
of the investigation of that which you call
U.F.O’s – that’s right, isn’t it, Brad?
BRAD: He might be – I don’t know.
RIFF RAFF: The intruder is entering the building, Master.
FRANK: Ah he’s in the Zen room. Seal off all exits – and all
doors – except for those that lead here –
Riff Raff – bring Rocky and Janet here – I think we
should make this a social occasion. The three
unexpected guests shall entertain us with a floor
show – which I shall direct.
SCENE NINE
Enter DOCTOR SCOTT in wheelchair
COLUMBIA pushing him.
COLUMBIA: Hi – Ho – Silver.
BRAD: Dr. Scott!
SCOTTY: Brad – what are you doing here?
FRANK: Don’t play games, Dr. Scott. It was part of your
plan, was it not, that Brad Majors and his female
should check the layout for you – unfortunately for
you all there is to be a change of plans – I’m sure
you’re adaptable, Dr. Scott – I know Brad is.
SCOTTY: I can assure you that Brad’s presence here comes
as a complete surprise to me. As does the set up
you have here – I didn’t exptct it to be quite so…
FRANK: Sophisticated – Dr. Scott? Or should I say Dr. Von
Scott?
BRAD: What exactly are you implying?
SCOTTY: That’s alright, Brad… Ah – this machine here…
BRAD: What do you think it is, Doc?
SCOTTY: At this precise moment it’s hard to tell – but it
seems to be made of a metal that is not of this earth
– I would say that it was from another planet.
(Doors OPEN. Enter JANET)
JANET: Dr. Scott!!
SCOTTY: Janet!
FRANK: Rocky!
ROCKY: Piss off.
FRANK: Listen – I made you and I can break you just as
easily – I’ll pull your plug out
SCOTTY: I suppose you intend to do with us as you did with
Eddie.
COLUMBIA: Eddie!
MAGENTA &
RIFF RAFF: Sshhh.
BRAD: Eddie – I’ve seen him, he looks terrible.
FRANK: What do you know of Eddie, Dr. Scott?
SCOTTY: I happen to know a great deal about a lot of things –
you see Eddie happened to be my nephew.
BRAD: Dr. Scott!
SCOTTY: Yes, Brad – my sister’s boy. I knew he was in with
a bad crowd, but it was worse than I imagined – aliens.
BRAD: Tell them, Doc.
SCOTTY: From the day he was born, he was trouble
He was the thorn in his mother’s side.
She tried in vain,
NARRATOR: But he never caused her nothing but pain.
SCOTTY: He left home the day she died.
From the day she was gone
All he wanted
Was a rockin’ roll porn and a motor bike.
Shootin’ up junk,
NARRATOR: He was a low down cheap little punk.
SCOTTY: Taking everyone for a ride.
CHORUS: When Eddie said he didn’t like his teddy,
You knew he was a no good kid.
When he threatened your life with a switch blade knife,
FRANK: What a guy.
JANET: Made you cry.
SCOTTY: And I did.
NELL: Everybody shoved him.
I very nearly loved him.
I say hey listen to me
Stay sane inside insanity.
But he shut the door and threw away the key.
SCOTTY: But he must have been drawn in to something.
Making him warn me in a note which read
ALL: What’s it say, What’s it say.
SCOTTY: I’m out of my head.
NARRATOR: Hurry or I may be dead.
SCOTTY: They mustn’t carry out their evil deeds.
Chorus
(Repeat)
FRANK: What a guy,
JANET: Made you cry,
SCOTTY: And I did.
(Repeat)
FRANK: Say a prayer for Eddie, I just defrosted him. (He
pulls out a bag of blood and gore) His destiny is in
the bag.
MAGENTA: I’ll put him down the waste disposal.
FRANK: Clever girl.
BRAD: Why you…
FRANK: (Flicks a switch) There, that should restrain you all.
JANET: My feet – there’s something wrong with my feet.
SCOTTY: My wheels! My God, I can’t move my wheels.
BRAD: It’s as if we were glued to the spot.
FRANK: You are, so quake with fear you tiny fools – O.K.
it’s startime – Riff Raff set the sonic transducer on
programme 8 secure all levels at zero –
MAGENTA: Relax.
SCOTTY: You won’t find earth people quite the easy mark that
you imagine – this sonic transducer! It is I suppose
some type of audio vibratory physiomolecular
transport device!
FRANK: You’d better believe it, baby.
BRAD: You mean…?
SCOTTY: Yes, Brad – it’s something we ourselves have been
working on. But it seems our friend here has found
a way of perfecting it – a device that is capable of
breaking down solid matter and then projecting it
through space and who knows, perhaps even time itself.
JANET: You’re going to send us to another planet?
FRANK: Planet – Shmanet Janet
Tell you once
Won’t tell you twice
You’d better wise up Janet Weiss
Y’apple pie
Don’t taste too nice
You’d better wise up Janet Weiss
I’ve laid the seed
It should be all you need
You’re as sensual
As a pencil
Wound up like an ‘E’ or first string
When we made it
Did ja hear a bell ring?
Y’ got a block
Take my advice
You’d better wise up Janet Weiss
The transducer
Will seduce yah
It’s something you’ll get used to
A mental mind-fuck can be nice
You’d better wise up – Janet Weiss
You’d better wise up
Build your thighs up
You’d better wise up
NARRATOR: And then she cries out.
JANET: Stop!!
FRANK: Don’t get hot and flustered
Use a bit of mustard.
ALL
(Voices building) *You’re a hot dog
But you’d better not try to hurt her
Frank Furter
(* This keeps repeating and one by one they
are released by FRANK signalling MAGENTA
to pull the switch – in turn they make for
FRANK and are sprayed by RIFF RAFF and
become drugged. He rushes them into the transducer
entrance)
(MAGENTA keeps singing
after everyone else has stopped)
FRANK: Magenta, relax.
(RIFF RAFF sprays her)
Columbia – The artistes are in a molecular
state somewhere between entrance and exit.
(RIFF RAFF sprays her) When they’ve pulled
themselves together – see that they are
prepared for the floorshow.
COLUMBIA: Oh Wow – I can dig it – much – far out – what a
gas – that’s groovy – I’m hip, man – it’s like a
trip – oh nice one – freak out baby – dig you later.
FRANK: It’s not easy having a good time – even smiling
makes my face ache – and my children turn on
me – Rocky’s behaving just as Eddie did – maybe
I made a mistake in splitting his brain between the
two of them.
MAGENTA: When do we return to Transalvania? – I grow weary
of this world.
FRANK: Magenta I am indeed grateful to both you and your
brother Riff Raff – you have both served me well –
loyalty such as yours must be rewarded, and you
will discover that when the mood takes me, I can
be quite generous.
MAGENTA: I ask for nothing, Master.
FRANK: And you shall receive it in abundance – come – our
guests will be growing restless. (exits)
(MAGENTA and RIFF RAFF look
at one another – they make an
extraterrestial sign. EXIT)
NARRATOR: And so, by some extraordinary coincidence – fate
it seems had decided that Brad and Janet should
keep that appointment with their friend Dr. Evrett
Scott. But, it was to be in a situation which none
of them could have possibly foreseen – And, just a
few hours after announcing their engagement Brad
and Janet had both tasted forbidden fruit – This in
itself was proof that their host was a man of little
morals and some persuasion –
What further indignities were they to be subjected
to… ? – And what of the sonic transducer and the
floorshow that had been spoken of? – What indeed? –
From what had gone before it was clear that this
was to be no picnic.
SCENE TEN
Each enters singly – wearing black
stocking and suspenders and black
underwear and finally they become
a slow-motion chorus line.
COLUMBIA: It was great
When it all began
I was a regular Franky Fan
But it was over when he had the plan
To start working on a muscle-man
Now the only thing that gives me hope
Is my love of a certain dope
Rose tints my world keeps me
Safe from my trouble and pain.
ROCKY: I’m just seven hours old
Truly beautiful to behold
And somebody should be told
My libido hasn’t been controlled
Now the only thing I’ve come to trust
Is an orgasmic rush of lust
Rose tints my world keeps me
Safe from my trouble and pain.
BRAD: It’s beyond me
Help me mommy
I’ll be good you’ll see
Take this dream away
What’s this, let’s see
I feel sexy
What’s come over me
Here it comes again
JANET: I feel released
Bad times deceased
My confidence has increased
Reality is here
The game has been disbanded
My mind has been expanded
It’s a gas that Frankie’s landed
His lust is so sincere
FRANK: What ever happened to Fay Wray
That delicate satin draped frame
As it clung to her thigh
How I started to cry
For I wanted to be dressed just the same.
Give yourself over to absolute pleasure
Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh
Erotic nightmares beyond any measure
And sensual daydreams to treasure forever –
Can’t you just see it.
Don’t dream it – Be it
Don’t dream it – Be it
Don’t dream it – Be it
(This continues fading slowly and
through this comes SCOTTY’s
thoughts – as he sings, the blanket
reveals his stocking-clad legs)
SCOTTY: Hmm.. We’ve got to get out of this trap
Before this decadence saps our wills
I’ve got to be strong and try to hang on
Or my mind may well snap
And my life will be lived for the thrills
BRAD: It’s beyond me
Help me mommy
JANET: God bless Lilly St. Cyr.
FRANK: (screaming) MY MY MY MY
I’m a wild and an untamed thing
I’m a bee with a deadly sting
Get a hit, and your mind goes ping
Your heart’ll thump and your blood will sing
So let the party and the sounds rock on
Gonna shake it till the life has gone
Rose tint my world
Keep me safe from my trouble and pain.
(They all sing “We’re a wild and
an untamed thing” – right through
twice.
RIFF RAFF and MAGENTA enter
dressed in extraterrestial
national costume)
RIFF RAFF: Frank n Furter
It’s all over
Your mission is a failure
Your life style’s too extreme
I’m your new commander
You now are my prisoner
We return to Transalvania
Prepare the transit beam.
(ALL freeze)
FRANK: Wait – I can explain
(He is left alone)
On the day I went away
ALL: Goodbye
FRANK: Was all I had to say
ALL: Now I
FRANK: Want to come again and stay
ALL: Oh my
FRANK: Smile and that will mean I may
I’ve seen blue skies
Throught the tears in my eyes
And I realise I’m going home
Everywhere it’s been the same
ALL: Feeling
FRANK: Like I’m outside in the rain
ALL: Wheeling
FRANK: Free to try and find a game
ALL: Dealing
FRANK: Cards for sorrow cards for pain
I’ve seen blue skies
Through the tears in my eyes
And I realise – I’m going home
I’m going home
I’m going home
SCENE ELEVEN
MAGENTA: How sentimental.
RIFF RAFF: And also presumptious of you – you see when I said
`we’ were to return I referred only to Magenta and
myself – I’m sorry however if you found my words
misleading – you see you are to remain here – in
spirit anyway –
(He produces a ray gun)
SCOTTY: Great heavens – that’s a laser.
RIFF RAFF: Yes, Dr. Scott, a laser capable of emitting a beam
of pure anti-matter.
BRAD: You mean you’re going to kill him? – What’s his crime.
FRANK: Oh Brad.
SCOTTY: You saw what had become of Eddie – Society must
be protected.
RIFF RAFF: Exactly, Dr Scott – Now Frank-n-Furter, your time
has come – say goodbye to all this – and hello to
oblivion.
FRANK: Do your worst – inferior one.
COLUMBIA: No!! No!!
(She throws herself between
RIFF RAFF and FRANK – BLATTT –
She and FRANK are both killed.
ROCKY bellows and beats his chest,
picks up FRANK. RIFF RAFF fires
again and again until finally ROCKY
dies. Spectacularly)
BRAD: Good God.
RIFF RAFF: Yes.
JANET: You’ve killed them.
MAGENTA: I thought you liked them – they liked you.
RIFF RAFF: (screams) They didn’t like me – They never liked
me. You saw the way things were – the way they were
going
SCOTTY: You did right.
RIFF RAFF: A decision had to be made.
SCOTTY: You’re O.K. by me.
RIFF RAFF: Dr. Scott I’m sorry about our nephew.
SCOTTY: Yes – perhaps it’s for the best.
RIFF RAFF: You should leave now, Dr. Scott
While it is still possible
We are about to beam the entire house
Back to the planet of transexual
In the galaxy of Transalvania
Go now –
(RIFF RAFF and MAGENTA look at one
another. They start to laugh quietly –
it builds)
MAGENTA: I wonder if I remembered to lock up the dogs –
(they laugh louder)
RIFF RAFF: No matter, Magenta – activate the transit crystal.
BRAD: I’ve done a lot
God knows I’ve tried
To find the truth
I’ve even lied
But all I know
Is down inside
ALL: I’m bleeding
JANET: And super heroes
Come to feast
To taste the flesh
Not yet deceased
And all I know
Is still the beast
ALL: Is feeding
Ahh Ahh etc. …
(Chant)
NARRATOR: And crawling on the planets face
Some insects called the human race
Lost in time
And lost in space
ALL: And meaning.
(SCOTTY, BRAD and JANET are
left alone with nothing
but the wind.)
BLACKOUT
EPILOGUE
MAGENTA: (as usherette) Science Fiction – double feature
Frank has built and lost his creature
Darkness has conquered Brad and Janet
The servants gone to a distant planet
Oh – at the late night double feature
Picture show – I want to go – Ohh –
To the late night double feature picture show.