Walking gracefully and lasciviously in high heels is an art that needs to be mastered.

Otherwise, the comparison with the stork in the salad is very obvious.

The mockery is not far off for novices, especially when it is a man who is stalking through the landscape on high heels for the first time.

So everyone has only the exercise to float along on narrow heels later without an accident.

Christian Riethmuller

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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In any case, Oliver Savile has no other advice than: “Training.” The 32-year-old Briton knows what he is talking about.

In the past few months he not only had to learn to be able to walk in high heels at all, but he also had to learn to walk in such a way that he radiated a certain eroticism, which is absolutely essential for his role on stage, after all, he is playing the "Sweet Transvestite" from the planet Transsexual, the eccentric scientist Dr.

Frank N. Furter, dazzling center of the legendary musical "The Rocky Horror Show".

"I haven't had any other role where I've had to wear heels, so I had to practice a lot.

My colleagues have explained to me how I swing my hips, and I train the muscles in my legs every day,” says Savile in an interview with FAS, in which he describes the character of Frank N. Furter as one of his dream roles .

In the UK, he has auditioned for various characters in various productions of the musical over the past few years, "and now it worked out right away with the leading role," says the graduate of the Mountview Academy of Theater Arts.

He is now involved in director Sam Buntrock's original production of Richard O'Brien's musical, which has been on a major tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland for a few weeks.

Wild version of the Hansel and Gretel theme still catches the eye today

Savile knows about the popularity of this production, which is returning to the stage after a five-year break, as well as about the real cult status that one of his predecessors in the role of Frank N. Furter just achieved in Germany: Rob Fowler, who starred three times with Rocky Horror Show went on tour.

"I know Rob well.

We ride motorbikes together, and he told me about the audience's enthusiasm for the musical," says Savile, who in his career to date, in addition to numerous engagements in London's West End, has also been involved in numerous international touring productions of musicals such as "Cats" and " Mamma Mia!

In terms of popularity among viewers, the "Rocky Horror Show" is hardly inferior to these stage hits.

The wild version of the Hansel and Gretel motif still catches the eye almost 50 years after the play's premiere in June 1973. In a short time it made its way from a small studio stage to the big screen, namely as a film adaptation that had also become a cult , and with its linking of B-movies like "Frankenstein", burlesque and rock music, it still has some influence on various pop culture scenes, which enthusiastically participate actively in the performances.

prominent storytellers

It's not uncommon to see costumed audience members at the performances, wielding squirt guns, throwing confetti or toilet paper rolls, or shining flashlights, before the whole hall dances to the "time warp," while the staid young couple Brad Majors and Janet Weiss are in the castle of the Dr.

Frank N. Furter is challenged in his values ​​and moral concepts and involuntarily witnesses the creation of the blonde test-tube man Rocky.

The actor Sky du Mont has been one of the fans of the unfortunate Rocky for many years.

He not only sums up the wild plot, but also traditionally engages in verbal skirmishes with the audience, which has to ritualistically interrupt the narrative with "boring" interjections.

Du Mont isn't the only prominent narrator on the current tour.

Also Rufus Beck, Martin Semmelrogge, Klaus Eberhartinger, Gregor Gysi or Hardy Krüger jr.

take on this role in various cities.

Krüger will also be performing in Frankfurt when the production returns to the Alte Oper for three days in early July.

But even then, the gaze of the spectators will probably be focused primarily on the walk of a man in red high heels.