I've seen productions of The Rocky Horror Show, the original play which also starred Tim Curry in London, in which Frankenfurter was very much Frankenfurter without being an impersonation.

I have to agree. Laverne Cox and a few other people here seem to think that back in the '70s people didn't know the difference between transgender and transvestite. Transgender is lot more gender conforming than transvestitism and Tim Curry absolutely played it to bend and stretch in a gender-subversive way. The song…