If you’re looking for a good business opportunity in Bristol this week, start selling feather boas, corsets and fishnet stockings. Until Saturday, there will be a lot of people dressed in this and more heading to the Hippodrome to see their favourite cult rock and roll musical.

For the uninitiated, going to a performance of The Rocky Horror Show is like stepping into a parallel universe. For converts, that universe is a place where they can let their hair down like nowhere else.

Seeing the faces on drivers and passers-by on the centre last night was priceless. There were grown men wearing little more than a leopard-print thong and women in flowing white skirts and matching white bra.

When the lights inside the theatre went down, it was clear why fans had gone to such lengths to emulate their favourite characters, because The Rocky Horror Show is hilarious, sexy and fantastic fun.

Janet and Brad are a straight-laced young couple whose car breaks down and are forced to enter a remote castle looking for a phone. Within that castle are mad transvestite scientist Frank N Furter and a cast of crazy cohorts including Rocky, his vision of an ideal man.

In this production, our narrator was Michael Starke, best known to television viewers as Sinbad from Brookside. His interaction with the boisterous audience was at times inspired.

Frank N Furter from transsexual Transylvania was played by the wonderful David Bedella (below), last seen on our screens as Dr Carlos Fashola in Holby City. With a deliciously knowing wink, he stole the show, much to the delight of his feather boa-ed fanboys.

For tickets and more information, visit www.bristolhippodrome.org.uk