Annaleigh Ashford Masters Sex for The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Steve Barton
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More casting news is here for the 2-hour television event that will serve to reboot 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as THR is reporting that “Masters of Sex” actress and Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford has nabbed the role of Columbia.
She joins previously announced cast members Laverne Cox (Dr. Frank-N-Furter), Victoria Justice (Janet), Ryan McCartan (Brad), Adam Lambert (Eddie), Reeve Carney (Riff Raff), Staz Nair (Rocky) and Tim Curry, the original Frank-N-Furter, who is returning as the show’s Criminologist Narrator.
In the small screen reimagining for Fox, sweethearts Janet Weiss (Justice) and Brad Majors (McCartan) stumble upon the bizarre abode of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Cox), a sexually ambiguous, flirtatious mad scientist. The doctor is holding an annual Transylvanian science convention to showcase the birth of “Rocky Horror” – a fit, attractive man (Nair) created solely to fulfill Frank’s desires.
Lou Adler, Gail Berman, and Kenny Ortega are executive producing. Ortega will direct and choreograph.
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