Evening Standard, 31 August 1995, by Simon Perry
"Rocky Robbie takes that acting in his stride"
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FORMER Take That star Robbie Williams surprised a West End 
audience early today when he appeared in The Rocky Horror 
Show. 

To wild and prolonged cheers, he suddenly emerged in the 
heroine's arms, wearing a white vest, gold G-string and 
boots. 

Without saying a word, he was gone in five minutes. 

Robbie, 21, was on stage with heroine Janet, played by 
Joanne Farrell, for a special performance of the musical 
which raised about £10,000 for the children's charity 
Rainbow. 

The idea for the one-off show came from Tony Head, who plays 
Frank N Furter. Other special guests at the Duke of York's 
theatre included Nigel Planer, who took the place of 
Nicholas Parsons as the narrator, and Shane Richie, who 
played wild motorcyclist Eddie. 

There was even a chance to raise the spectre of Robbie's old 
band-mates. 

As the character Dr Scott looked around the motley crew on 
stage he cried out: "I see he was hanging around with a 
worse crowd than I imagined." And the crowd, as normal, 
yelled back: "Yes, actors." But Dr Scott answered: "No, Take 
That".  

Caption: Show stopper: Robbie Williams with heroine Janet 



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