Science Fiction Musical?!? He's all over it. Meat moves back west, gets cast in two parts as Eddie and Dr. Scott. After being stunned to fleeing from dress rehearsal when Tim Curry first appeared in fishnets and garters (imagine a big Texas boy shakin' his head, insisting he ain't gonna do no damn drag show), Meat eventually embraced the hilarity of it all, and even squeezed himself into a pair of stockings and platforms for the show, but RHS wasn't without a problem here or there for our hero.
In the musical version, they stuff Eddie in an ice box and Rocky is born atop it. One minor problem: All that Meaty lovin' doesn't do "stuffed in a box"...not without losing his mind. So vents, pipes, and plexiglass later, our delivery boy manages to keep it together for the scene. He does it well enough that when the time for the movie version to come into being rolls around, the Powers-That-Be keep Meat around for his first movie role.
Whatever happened to that Saturday night? Well, hot patootie, bless my soul, WE ALL love that rock and roll.
