"The Oasis and Ray of Light co-production of The Rocky Horror Show (through November 1 at Oasis, SF) features club co-founder D'Arcy Drollinger as Dr. Frank-N-Furter seated in front of a piano, playing the song under a spotlight. As this happens, the club's upstage projection screen plays clips of D'Arcy playing the role over the years. The video footage ranges from "decent" to "crappy" and every wonderful stage in between."
"The song has always been an outlier in O'Brien's hilariously hedonistic musical: Whereas most of the other numbers are defined by off-the-wall excess and building crescendos, "I'm Going Home" is a sad ballad about realizing the party's over, but trying to celebrate that it happened at all, rather than mourn its ending. It's no wonder that the song is occasionally covered by other musicians (including Misfit Cabaret's Kat Robichaud) as an out-of-context torch song."
'I'm Going Home' functions as a melancholic outlier amid Rocky Horror's hedonistic score, a ballad about accepting an ended party while celebrating its occurrence. The Oasis and Ray of Light staging places D'Arcy Drollinger as Dr. Frank-N-Furter at a piano under a spotlight with archival projection clips of Drollinger in the role. The mixed-quality footage, ranging from decent to crappy, creates a retrospective, self-eulogizing tone comparable to Johnny Cash's cover of 'Hurt.' The number emphasizes the loss tied to Oasis's impending closure. Prior to that finale, the production delivers a two-plus-hour Hallowe'en drag tradition; the film version marks its 50th anniversary, underscoring five decades of cult endurance.
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