Richard O’Brien’s camp musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a celebration of B-movies with an added dash of transvestism, seemed an unlikely hit when it made its stage debut in 1973.

It tells the story of Brad and his fiancée Janet, two squeaky-clean college kids who meet the unusual Dr Frank ’n’ Furter when their car breaks down outside his house, and embark upon a very strange adventure.

But with a host of great songs including The Time-Warp, and outrageous outfits and onstage antics, it proved an instant success, and has since been made into a successful film, and continually performed on stages around the world for the past four decades.

To celebrate The Rocky Horror Show’s 40th anniversary, a new national UK tour has been launched, which will be stopping off in Kent.

It features a star-studded cast, including former Dancing On Ice champion, actor Sam Attwater as Brad, and last year’s Strictly Come Dancing finalist and Tracy Beaker star Dani Harmer as Janet.

West End actor Oliver Thornton will don the corset and suspenders as Frank ‘n’ Furter, and the Narrator will be played by Philip Franks, best known as Charlie in The Darling Buds of May.

See the show at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, from Monday, May 27 to Saturday, June 1.

Tickets from £10. Call 0844 8717 620. It will also be at Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre from Monday, August 12 to Saturday, August 17. Tickets from £15. Call 01227 787787.