The Tolls of Madness
Cast Location: Blacksburg, VA
Cast Website: http://www.rocky-horror.org.vt.edu/
Cast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TollsOfMadness/
Cast Status:
Cast Venues: Radford Theatre (Radford, VA), Grandin Theatre (Roanoke, VA) Litton-Reaves Hall (Blacksburg, VA), Abingdon Cinemall (Abingdon, VA)
Show Frequency: Around Halloween and one weekend in the spring
Contents
Cast History
The Fan Club was formed by Robert Sebek at Virginia Tech in the Spring of 1992 in preparation for a performance at the Virginia Tech Union's WinterFest. While the VTU had presented showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show before, it was felt that forming the cast into an organization of their own would make it easier to reserve practice space, and so the group has since operated as a registered student organization on the VT campus. Since then, the Tolls of Madness Cast has put on many performances in Squires Student Center Commonwealth Ballroom and other venues. In 1995, the Fan Club got funding from the Student Government Budget Board in order to put on a show celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of the film.
Members
Alumni Members
The current cast directors (as of 2023) of The Antici-Pations and Plan B from Myrtle Beach are alumni members of the Tolls of Madness.
Guest Performers
- Barry Bostwick
Special Shows
In addition to Rocky, the cast does an annual recruitment show at the beginning of fall semester which is typically some non-RHPS film. Some films that have been performed by the shadow cast are:
- Orgazmo
- Princess Bride
- Barbarella
- Death Race 2000
- Willy Wonka
- Super Mario Bros
- Evil Dead
- Evil Dead 2
- All About Evil
- Clue
- The Whedon Singalong (a back-to-back of Dr. Horrible's Singalong blog with the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Once More With Feeling")
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
Theme Shows
- Silver
- Prom
- Superheroes (x2)
- Bubble wrap night
- Glow in the Dark
- Squeaky clean
- Zombies
- Black and White
- Dollar Store
- Election
- Heaven and Hell
- Pirates vs Ninjas
- 80s
- Video Games (x2)
- Storybook night
- Christmas
- Internet memes
- Rock band
- Rave
- Green
- Horror movies
- Sci Fi
- Fantasy/kink
- Japan
- Cartoons
- Cult Movies
- Leather and Lace (x2)
- Under the Sea
- Anything but Clothes
- Black Light