The Rocky Horror Show
As Frank-N-Furter, Luke Evans amply fills the towering platform heels of Tim Curry, who originated the role on stage and, much more indelibly, that supreme silver screen. To put it as delicately as possible, Evans owns a distinct advantage in bodily charms over a 1970s Curry, which costume designer David I. Reynoso maximally emphasizes. But the sizable difference between the two fellas doesn't make Evans any less emotionally vulnerable in the later numbers "I'm Going Home" and "Floorshow/Rose Tint My World." Despite Frank-N-Furter's deeply problematic take on love, Evans sentimentally honors his character's need for a very peculiar and lonely form of it. [more]