There’s less than a week to go until opening night for the cast of The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway, and Luke Evans—who stars as Dr. Frank-N-Furter—is ready to march out onstage in his fishnets and seven-inch platforms.
“I think I enjoy the process of tech…because you still have the license and the freedom to try things and change things up,” says Evans, “but if we open tomorrow, I feel very, very good about what we have.”
“I feel giddy,” echoes director Sam Pinkleton, also known for his work on Oh, Mary!. “Always with live theater, you could tinker until death…And at a certain point you have to be like, ‘Pencils down.’ And I think with this show especially, I mean, we’ve had such a good time making it.”
The duo joined guest host Marley Marius, Vogue’s senior editor, features and news, on The Run-Through to talk about their collaboration—and the cast’s surreal shoot with Norman Jean Roy and Tonne Goodman for the April 2026 issue of Vogue, when the actors were all just meeting each other.
“I’m not just saying this because I’m on the Vogue podcast: Tonne and Norman got it on a molecular level,” says Pinkleton. “And I was like, oh, it’s like the DNA of the thing… That shoot set a path for making the show in a way that I didn’t totally expect.”
And while the cast prepares for opening night, Pinkleton has also started rehearsing this week with Maya Rudolph, who is set to take over the lead role in Oh, Mary! this spring.
“You know, when Cole [Escola] and I were first making Oh, Mary!, we were like, ‘Well, no one will ever play this part other than Cole. I mean, no one could really do it other than, I don’t know, like Maya Rudolph.’ So we’re really eating our words now,” says Pinkleton. He also sees certain parallels between that show and Rocky Horror.
“Mary Todd Lincoln is such an amazing character. There’s no one like her…Much like Dr. Frank-N-Furter,” he continues. “She is a character who is largely misunderstood by the world. Who knows that she contains greatness. Who wants to show the world and the audience all of the things she’s capable of…Much like Dr. Frank-N-Furter.”