Tim Curry
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1,074 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 30 Aug
Tim Curry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's so nice. I mean, it's sort of important for me because, you know, that first performance that sort of introduced me to everybody was so out there and so... I'll say, yeah. So kind of outrageous that, you know, I was a very quiet boy for a while, you know, just to make sure that people got it, that, you know, that wasn't necessarily who I was.
Was that because of... It was my first movie, you know.
I got the part because I used to work a great deal at a theater in London called the Royal Court. And I guess they have a little theater upstairs which seats about 60 people and I did Brecht there and I did a sort of Rudyard Kipling show there and...
And I guess the next show, I did a dreadful musical, a Marxist musical called Give the Gaffers Time to Love You, with a director who kept saying, Barry, the second act just simply isn't Marxist enough. And that, of course, never even opened to the critics. But the next show coming in was this... other musical called The Rocky Horror Show.
And originally I played Frankenfurter as though he was German. It was Dr. Frankenfurter and everything was very interesting and stupid. And then one day I heard a woman on a bus saying, do you have a heist in time or a heist in the country? And I thought, yes, she should sound like the queen. So... He should sound like the queen. But that's how it happened.
And it just started in this tiny theater, you know, and it just took off like a sort of rocket.
Oh, absolutely. And I mean, Richard's brilliance really was just, you know... It was really like reaching up a hand into the zeitgeist and just grabbing, you know, 50s horror movies, Sandra Dee comic books and 50s rock and roll and just hurling them all together.
um with the you know some fishnet tights thrown in and the fishnet tights really you know came from a brilliant uh costume designer called sue blaine who i'd worked with before actually um in a a wonderful theater in scotland called the glasgow citizen theater where we did a production of the maids where i wore exactly that corset yeah the jean genet play i played solange and
We bought the corset for three pounds off a barrow in the market in Glasgow and wore it back to front.
Absolutely.
Well, absolutely. And that was a fairly late development. I mean, I had no idea it was going to be like that.
No, no, no, no. I thought I'd be in a white lab coat, you know.
It's just what everybody wears in Transylvania. They just get over it, you know. It's truck driver drag. It's not about going boop, boop, a-doop. It's just what they happen to wear.
I think it's all of the above, actually. I mean, I think, first of all, they love the movie because it's daring. To pretty much everybody, it was daring at the time, less daring now. To them, it's daring. And it's also, I think, you know, there are several reasons why it's endured the way that it has. It's a kind of rite of passage now, I think.
And actually, first of all, it's a guaranteed weekend party to which you can go with or without a date and probably find one if you don't have one. And it's also, I think, a chance for people to to try on a few roles for size, you know, figure out, help them maybe figure out their own sexuality.
I mean, I think that's probably taking it a little deeper than it needs to go, but I think it has had a useful purpose in that way. And I've certainly had some very interesting and moving mail from people who have said, you know, Thanks for helping me figure out who I was. And that's very nice.
I did go. I went a couple of times. Oddly enough, it started happening at the Waverly Theater. In Manhattan, in the village. On 6th Avenue in the village. And ironically, I was living a block behind it on Jones Street.
So I would see on my way home all these people. And, you know, I got to know about it rather quickly because I was a neighbor. Wow. And finally, I went to see it. And in fact, I had to sort of call the theater because, you know, you could never get in. And I said, you know, I'm in it and I'd really love to come and see it and get an Eiffel.
And the operator said, you're the third Tim Curry to call this week. Yeah. So finally I showed up and they sort of believed me and took me in and the word spread rather swiftly and people were sort of coming up and touching me and running away and giggling and it was a very, very peculiar experience.
And then finally the usherette, I don't know what you call them really, that's what they call them in England, came and sort of dragged me out of my seat and announced that I was an imposter and threw me out of the theatre. Which is quite funny, really.
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