Tim Curry has passed away at age 80
#2
Posted: 8/26/26 at 11:29am
ElephantLoveMedley said: "Tough week...
https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead/"
The hits keep coming.
#4
Posted: 8/26/26 at 11:40am
Geez. First Dolly now Tim Curry....😢
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#5
Posted: 8/26/26 at 11:43am
Please don't let this masterpiece be forgotten amid his insane body of work.
Heaven rest him now. Anyone going to Rocky Horror tonight?
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#6
Posted: 8/26/26 at 11:46am
Dolly and Tim gone, but you-know-who is still alive. #makeitmakesense
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- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
#8
Posted: 8/26/26 at 11:48am
One of the first Broadway shows I ever saw was on a school trip to see Amadeus on Broadway with Ian McKellen, Tim Curry and Jane Seymour. Became of fan of Tim Curry that day.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
#9
Posted: 8/26/26 at 11:49am
ACL2006 said: "Geez. First Dolly now Tim Curry....😢"
JFC, this feels targeted to the gay community, at this point. I didn’t think this week could get more devastating.
#10
Posted: 8/26/26 at 12:01pm
What the hell. The grim reaper is ****ing up Big Time. Is he lost or something, I mean the right 80-year-old to take isn't that hard to find. He lives in a big house.
Darreyl with an L!
#11
Posted: 8/26/26 at 12:02pm
Liza is gonna pass within 8 weeks, mark my words.
#12
Posted: 8/26/26 at 12:03pm
TheatreFan4 said: "Liza is gonna pass within 8 weeks, mark my words."
What a terrible thing to say.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
#13
Posted: 8/26/26 at 12:07pm
I want to throw up. Forever Rooster
#14
Posted: 8/26/26 at 12:12pm
Tim Curry was so wonderful as Alan Swann in Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens' ''My Favorite Year'' (1992), with Evan Pappas, Lainie Kazan and Andrea Martin. Here are promo clips from Curry's YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XQS0bC0W5o
Updated On: 8/26/26 at 12:12 PM
#15
Posted: 8/26/26 at 12:26pm
Immediate flashbacks of those midnight showings of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the TLA Cinema on South Street in Philly back in the late 70's.
I remember in '79 he released the album "Fearless". They ran the video for the single "I Do The Rock" , along with "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", before the movie. I ran out and bought the album after the first night they showed it. Haven't listened to it in a long time but it will be playing today.
May he rest in peace.
I Do The Rock:
https://youtu.be/kXPCsaO_55o?si=HovdZQz8jUEMpBCm
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#16
Posted: 8/26/26 at 12:26pm
TheatreFan4 said: "Liza is gonna pass within 8 weeks, mark my words."
Given her health and her age, this is not a surprising revelation - so did not and should not have been voiced (IMO).
It probably doesn't matter to you, but I am extremely disappointed (and saddened) by your choice.
Should your prediction become reality, I choose to believe that you have enough civility within you to not point up any notion that you were "right".
I hope I haven't also made a mistake in my thinking.
#18
Posted: 8/26/26 at 12:43pm
As a millennial, I first came to know and love him as the voice of Nigel on The Wild Thornberrys.
This clip of him as Ebenezer Scrooge with the cast of Madison Square Garden's A Christmas Carol during Macy's Parade in 2001 really hits differently.
#19
==> this board is a nest of vipers <==
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
Posted: 8/26/26 at 1:01pm
uncageg said: "I remember in '79 he released the album "Fearless". They ran the video for the single "I Do The Rock" ,along with "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", before the movie. I ran out and bought the album after the first night they showed it. Haven't listened to it in a long time but it will be playing today."
I bought that album way back in the 70s as well, and I still regularly listen to songs from it in my music library. It contains several great tracks.
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
#20
Posted: 8/26/26 at 1:13pm
It probably doesn't matter to you, but I am extremely disappointed (and saddened) by your choice.
Uh oh! Dad is lecturing Theatre Fan again. Hahahahahahahahahaha.
Tim Curry is a legend and he was always sensational. The stoke he had 12 years ago was completely devastating, and he never walked again. I'm glad he's out of pain and free. He leaves an amazing legacy behind. Rest in Paradise, Sweet Tim.
#21
Posted: 8/26/26 at 1:26pm
When I was a freshman in college, coming from a very small town, from a very small High School in Illinois, one of the first "welcome" activities planned was projecting "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" onto the wall of the Main Hall, with all of us seated and watching from the quad.
The movie had been released about a year earlier and did not do well.
Everything about it was unknown, including the cast. Midnight screenings were not popular yet, and neither was audience participation.
That experience was revelatory for me, and throughout his career, Tim Curry has always been "that actor from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to me.
#22
Posted: 8/26/26 at 1:36pm
Although, given his health struggles, this is perhaps less of a shock than Parton, it is still just such a crushing blow.
Both Curry and Parton shared a similar quality of being immensely talented and taking what they did seriously, yet always seeming to just truly relish what they were doing. They loved doing their art, took great joy in it, and that was just palpable.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#23
Posted: 8/26/26 at 1:41pm
I loved seeing Curry making the round during the 50th RHPS celebrations. He still had his signature wit and cheekiness. What a singular performer!
#24
Posted: 8/26/26 at 4:37pm
Jeffrey Karasarides said: "This clip of him as Ebenezer Scrooge with the cast of Madison Square Garden's A Christmas Carol during Macy's Parade in 2001 really hits differently.
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Speaking of which, Alan Menken just paid tribute to him on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dcg2wa0n6Mn/
#25
Posted: 8/26/26 at 4:52pm
GODDAMNIT!!! Somebody check on Julie Andrews, Liza Minelli, Shirley McClaine, Joel Grey, Streisand, we cannot lose anymore icons this year please don’t make unnecessary journeys, don’t take risks on treacherous roads and don’t swim in the sea
