For the third straight year, Ball State University’s Rocky Horror Picture Show student organization will recreate the 1975 cult classic at midnight on Halloween. The show will take place at Emens Auditorium, with the cast lip-syncing while the film plays behind them.

Junior Olivia Germann joined the group in 2013 and is getting her first opportunity to direct the performance this year.

“When I was freshman, we weren’t actually an organization, so the turnover rate [of members] was a lot higher,” Germann said. “But now that we are [a student organization] and we have been doing it consistently with the same people, we have a lot more returning cast members … every year we get bigger.”

German said the group has doubled since she joined, with the number of members increasing from about 20 to about 40.

The group rehearses in a classroom in Ball State’s Teachers College. The stage in the room is small, but the seating arrangement closely resembles the auditorium. In between takes, the actors and actresses work on homework, practice alone, or simply mingle with their fellow cast members.

Michael Daehn, an associate professor of theatre education at Ball State, first went to a live-performance of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” as a college student in the early 1980s. He has since attended at least 25 performances and encourages anyone who has yet to experience it to go.

“I think it’s liberating,” Daehn said. “[The parties] that are the most interesting, the ones that more people come to, are the ones with the themes.”

Germann plans to direct the organization’s fourth production next year, too, but remains focused on giving this year’s audience the group’s best possible performance.

“I’m trying to give people an experience, because [“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”] is an experience,” she said. “I want people to see Rocky as not just a movie … but I want people to see it as an actual show.”

Anthony Lombardi is a reporter for a Ball State immersive-learning arts journalism course.