I just posted these sound files, courtesy of an anonymous fan in Australia who discovered a live tape recording he had made over three decades ago:
http://www.rockymusic.org/mp3scat/rhs-austr75live/A friend of his was able to clean up the recording a bit and burn it to CD form, which he was nice enough to share with me. The sound files are from a 1975 audience recording of the final Sydney performance of The Rocky Horror Show in its original Australian run, just before the transfer to Melbourne. The cast list is as follows:
- Usherette/Magenta: Robyn Moase
- Brad: Gregory Apps
- Janet: Paula Maxwell
- Narrator: Tommy Dysart
- Riff Raff: Sal Sarah
- Columbia: Gillian Jones
- Frank: Andrew Sharpe
- Rocky: Robert Forza
- Eddie/Dr Scott: Terry Bader
Sal Sharah is the only member of the original cast to still be performing in this recording (you can also hear him on the
1974 cast album as well as the later 1978 New Zealand cast album). You may also recognize the Magenta/Usherette, Robyn Moase, who was later featured as Deadpan Dolores in Richard O'Brien's 1982 musical
The Stripper (also produced in Sydney). A bonus track from the matinee performance features well known Frank-N-Furter
Max Phipps performing Sweet Transvestite. The sound quality is quite decent overall, and it's very nice to hear audience reactions and such from a time when audience participation wasn't the ritualized institution that it is today. Enjoy!