Question: What was I doing last night with my slightly-sick self? (really, I have a cold.... I'm not just referring to the derangement you may or may not yet be aware of)
Answer: Participating in the Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadow-casting! For anyone who does not know (both of my followers do, but hey, I'm a hopeful individual) this is an event in which a cast acts out the movie in front of the movie screen as it plays. They don't do the speaking part, just the visual.
Last night was phenomenal. I saw what I truly consider one of the best casts I've ever seen. Previous ones have been excellent, but this one completely took the cake.I tend to think that any Rocky is only as good as its Frankenfurter.... which vaults this show to 'Phenomenal.' Anyone would think I'm biased. Even I would ask myself 'Am I?', since Frank was played by one of my best friends.
I watched. I was there. I've cringed at bad Franks before. Or at tiny mistakes from good Franks. Last night marks the 15th show I've seen in this theater with this cast, 17th show that I've seen of a live Rocky shadowcast, and he was among the 3 damn BEST Franks, dare I say the best I've seen. He did it with passion, he did it with accuracy, and was consistent with both those qualities throughout the show. Every facial expression matched, and that is difficult, let me tell you.
Question: Now how do we as a theater group make this show even More appealing to audience members?
Answer: We have a preshow... for this particular show, we had two preshows. I danced with a group, and then partner-danced to Peggy Lee's 'Fever' (without all the bass and piano, it's tough to find the correct version due to copyright). My god that was fun. The audience cheering for us and shouting our names really helped me focus on doing it right, and on thinking about what I was doing. It was a really good experience.
The other preshow was to 'Hail to the Geek'. A selection of our cast 'rocked out' to this song on rock band instruments. Really good idea by the producer of the show, in my opinion. The cast has a policy that no one in cast will sing onstage.... ever again (apparently it was painful).... so this sort of poked fun at that rule for some of us. People lip-synching and pretending to play fake instruments..... hilarity at its nerdiest.
I regret to say I have no pictures taken on my own camera, which is quite unusual for me. And quite unfortunate, because I'm able to get rather good photos (with my own camera) of Rocky shows, what with all the practice I've had. Friends handed me their cameras for this show and asked that I take pix for them. Hopefully I will eventually have access to some of those?
Though I massively prefer my own camera. I know how to get around its crap.
I stayed up til 7am. Habits like that will kill ya.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
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Thank you Mia. I'm seriously very grateful for your words.
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