The 1975 cult classic Rocky Horror turns 50 this year. To mark the occasion, we listen back to a 2005 interview with Curry, who played the cross-dressing scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

Performances in N.Y.C. Tim Curry and colleagues recall the musical’s misadventure at the Belasco Theater in 1975. Tim Curry, left, as Frank-N-Furter and Kim Milford as Rocky in the Broadway ...