RICHARD O’Brien’s outrageously camp classic The Rocky Horror Show is to thrust its way across the UK once again and opens a week’s run at Southampton Mayflower on January 18 next year.

Best known for creating the roles of Satan/Warm Up Man in Jerry Springer: The Opera for which he won Best Musical Actor Olivier in 2004, David Bedella will play the mad scientist Frank ’n’ Furter.