‘Closet’ case

It's late on a Saturday night and hundreds of gyrating bodies, some standing on chairs and waving their hands around, fill a room to watch an R&B superstar. One fan faux-seductively climbs onto a table and pours a pitcher of water down his front.

Meatpacking District hot spot? Nope. Try the New York Comic Con at the Javits Center, where hundreds of nerds — many dressed in costumes, including Pokemon and Wonder Woman — took time out from the convention's movie and comic-book panels to pay tribute to a musical and cinematic genius like no other: Mr. Robert Sylvester Kelly, otherwise known as R. Kelly.

Kelly says "Trapped in the Closet" is "not of this world."

The crowd waited more than an hour for a sing-along and viewing party of Kelly's bizarre "hip-hopera," "Trapped in the Closet," a 22-part song and video cycle in which the singer plays Sylvester, a thinly veiled version of himself, who sings the narration and acts out the plot.

"Trapped" began as a five-part, 16-minute suite of songs on the 2005 album "TP.3 Reloaded." Sylvester sang about going home with a married woman, only to be surprised by her husband in the morning. To avoid being discovered, he hides in the closet.

Kelly's record company didn't know what to make of the songs until producer Ann Carli suggested creating a series of music videos. From those first five episodes, the story spins out in insane directions worthy of a Mexican telenovela, from surprise pregnancies and gunplay to secret lesbian affairs and midgets hiding in cupboards.

Kelly's last new episode arrived in 2007, but now cable channel IFC is set to debut the 23rd chapter on Nov. 23, after which 10 more episodes will be unveiled daily at IFC.com. The cable channel looks to capitalize on its cult following, which has spawned sing-alongs like the one at Comic Con in Brooklyn, San Francisco, Chicago and Tennessee's Bonnaroo music festival. "Trapped" seems destined to join "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "The Room" as draws for ironic group viewing. Audiences find the soap-opera storylines, broad characters and whiplash-inducing plot twists a hoot.

" 'Trapped' is hilarious," says D.J. Chapman, 22, who attended the Comic Con event. "I think R. Kelly is a parody of himself, and the fact that he makes this shows it. It's one of the funniest things ever."

Even before the event, Chapman says he and friends from Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology would gather to watch the series and laugh.

"I got a sense of the following when I would hear people talking about it on the subway," says "Trapped" editor-director Victor Mignatti. "They were talking about how whack it was. The thing that struck me was that people enjoyed how out-there it was. When I realized that white college boys were enjoying it, I thought, 'Oh, wow. This has crossed over into a really interesting place.' "

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