The Rocky Horror Show tour in South Africa opened on Wednesday 10th July, 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa

The show is at The Fugard Theatre, Caledon Street, District 6, Cape Town, South Africa and at time of page publication is presently booking until 31st October 2013

Click here for more information about the production itself.

We've been sent some of the limited merchandise from the tour shown here is the Participation Pack and we also have news on the Brochure as well.

The Participation Pack is presented in a nice 200mm wide by 120mm deep by 165mm high card box (7 ⁷/₈" x 4 ⁵/₈" x 6 ¹/₂") in the same distressed black style of the Brochure.

On the ends of the pack are a couple of 'Frank' logos with the legends "SO WHY DON'T CHA STAY FOR THE NIGHT ..." and "... OR MAYBE A BITE?", the back of the box has the same lettering as the front (minus the "PULL FOR PLEASURE" tag over the clip) but covering the whole of the back.

So what's in the box? Undo the little folded tag on the lid, open the box and you find......

First off there is a little participation guide card, reprinting the notes that are at the back of the Brochure. As per the guide the pack also contains.....

1. Confetti, a small plastic bag of white confetti.
2. Newspaper for use when Brad and Janet are caught in the storm, ours was a broadsheet page from the Sunday Argus from May 5th, 2013, so a real newspaper then.
3. Glow Stick. A 205mm long (8") use once, bend to activate stick.
4. Party Blower for use at the end of Frank's creation speech.
5. Rubber Glove A latex glove to snap as Frank pulls his gloves on and off during the creation scene.
6. Streamers We got two, one black, one red, to be thrown to celebrate Frank and Rocky's wedding as they walk up the aisle.
7. Cards Three standard playing cards supplied in our pack, for the Cards for Sorrow, Cards for Pain line in the song I'm Going Home.

The Newspaper and Glow Stick, plus the Party Blower and Glove are listed on one number in the guide, but I've split them up for this review. Hence you can see five items listed in the guide and seven here.

We also got a little card with a unique ID number to enter a competition to win a holiday for two to any South African timeshare resort including air tickets. Haven't seen the Terms & Conditions on that one, but as you have to tear off the slip and drop it in the glass bowl at the merchandise table at the show, I don't think we'll be entering ourselves :-). I like to think of the card more as a unique number for the participation pack, I think they missed a trick there as they could have made it into a little 'limited edition number' type certificate.

All in all, another nice collectable item from the South African production.