On a Saturday night in August, Steve Singleton, 55, stands in front of his bathroom mirror, drawing on dark black eyebrows with eyeliner. He moves back, raising and lowering his brow, taking in the entire makeup look as it comes together. He is in the process of transforming himself into Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a main character in the 1975 cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
“This would have been easier when I was younger, before the wrinkles,” he said.
Singleton has been going to showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show since first seeing it as a teenager on a school trip in 1988. Throughout the years, he has grown from a casual fan into the host of the monthly showing of the film at the Central Arkansas Library System’s’ Ron Robinson Theater in Little Rock.
The Rocky Horror Show began as a stage musical in 1973 written by Richard O’Brien. After having a successful run in both London and Los Angeles, it was adapted into a movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and premiered in London in August 1975 before coming to the U.S. that September…