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Formed over ten years ago, Cards 4 Sorrow - Brisbane’s Rocky Horror Picture Show Floorshow Cast - had their first screening/floorshow at Schonell Theatre on 20th October 2000. The cast continue to perform to this day with a loyal following and fanatic audiences.

The cast has been seen in such venues as Boggo Road Jail, Cremorne Theatre and Globe Theatre, and on Channel Nine's 'Extra' and Channel Ten's weather.

Cards 4 Sorrow celebrated their 10th Anniversary with a screening on Friday 29 October 2010 at Globe Theatre. Thanks to TeachmeCameras for photographing the night. Photos can be viewed here

A 1975 British film starring Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry, The Rocky Horror Picture Show begans its journey as a London stage musical (‘The Rocky Horror Show’) in 1973 and went on to become the longest running cult film of all time.

A box office bomb upon initial release, the film’s producer 20th Century Fox re-opened The Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight in April 1976 and it found its audience. People began attending the screenings in costume, and shouting out lines in response to the film dialogue. From this, the concept of a 'floorshow cast' began when a group emerged in Los Angeles that performed a Rocky Horror-themed lip-synch act on the stage in between the evening’s screenings.

Over the years, this idea has developed with groups now performing during the screenings. In character and in costume, the casts perform a live lip-synch floorshow on the stage in front of the screen whilst the film plays. Now, 33 years on, audience members are still flocking to screenings of the film all over the world. Nothing can beat seeing the film with a live cast in costume, and with audience members singing-along and shouting audience participation lines in time with the film.

(In the song I’m Going Home, Frank N Furter sings "cards for sorrow, cards for pain". It is traditional for a floorshow cast to be named in reference to the film)