How d’you do? I see you’ve met my faithful muscleman. Macho man Luke Evans will play Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway, the Roundabout Theatre Company said on October 29. The role will be Evans’s Broadway debut. Evans began his career on London’s West End in musicals but is best known for starring in Disney’s 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast as Gaston. Frank-N-Furter is typically played by a lithe, gender-bending, grimy showperson— most famously by Tim Curry in the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show , but also recently by Laverne Cox in the Fox special . It’s certainly nontraditional casting to have the part played by someone who would look totally hot in Rocky’s gold bootie shorts. Although, to be fair, Evans also owns a gay unde
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