But strolling over to Marie’s Crisis Café, the venerable show-tune sing-along joint, he perked up. He gazed over at the marquee of the IFC Center, formerly the Waverly Theatre, and said, “Me and Sal were hams.” On a snowy night in 1976, the teen-age Shaiman and his friend Sal Piro had impulsively joined the line for a screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” They came back the next night, then nearly every weekend for months, tossing out zingers and building a shared queer ritual from scratch. Shaiman’s contributions included a reference to an old Shake ’n Bake TV ad: “And we helped!”journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter