Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show is the latest in a long line of musicals experiencing a TV resurgence, with one key difference: It isn’t live. 

It never was going to be. And if you thought as much, you weren’t alone.

It’s true: Unlike NBC’s The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and The Wiz, and Fox’s own Grease adaptation earlier this year, the “Fox television event” was pre-taped in Toronto, with cast members lip-syncing to a previously recorded soundtrack. 

Some fans seem to have missed the memo:

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