Halloween Part III/Monster Mash Part I

Alrighty Folks!! I know we are supposed to be getting to our MONSTER MASH--and we are-- but first, I wanted to finish posting up my Halloween excursions--otherwise, it will just be a huge tangle of Halloween insanity all over the place, right?

So I'll post up part 3 of the Halloween festivities (part one, in Pennsylvania is HERE, and part two at the Village Parade is HERE) and a WEEE bit later today, the monsters will come out and play!!

You can wait just a little more today, right?? Mwaahahahaaa, yes, I am evil!

Ok..so...when we last left our Wild Haired Main character, we had just finished watching the Annual Village Halloween Parade. We were stoked to go the Theater for the New City Halloween party afterwards--I mean, the puppets in the parade were created by a well-known puppeteer FROM the theater.

It also helped that my dance troupe danced there a few times FOR Halloween. The gist of the whole thing is that performers perform for free, and they get a HUGE audience because it's relatively inexpensive to get in--so A LOT of people come to the shows. Because the performers aren't auditioned before being "hired" (there's no pay, remember), there is a huge bit of unpredictability in the shows you will see. But that's the fun part...

Because there are 4 theaters within "the" theater, there are four shows going on simultaneously. Plus, they have tarot readers and a spooky homemade haunted house in the basement--so you get to pick and choose what you will see! Fun, hilarity, craziness abound!

Here are a few pics of our night (CLICK ON PICS TO ENLARGE):

Here is the announcer at the main theater, where we first stopped off. I love the big spider web in the background!

Here is the first act--Jon Grimaldi, who is a magician and acrobat. He actually was a client of ours when I was a veterinary technician. He had circus dogs :)

Here he is with flaming sticks!

Back out in the main hall, this guys lay in a coffin ALL night like this in the area of the coat check ins! Nope, it's definitely not a mannequin!


In another theater, this strange lady mostly sang about love lost. I think she eventually realized where she was and finished with "An Ode to Psycho"--yes the movie!


After her came an amazing yogini. While it still wasn't very Halloween oriented, it was definitely entertaining! She's 54 and could do these amazing contortions!

Yes, I'd love to be able to do this when I'm her age! Wow!

Besides the performances, it was also great to see the creative decorating the theater did for Halloween! It was quite a feat as much of the stuff was created by hand by staff....

Haunted pony and masks at the entrance of the basement haunted house...

One of the giant scary masks hanging out in the lobby!

Little coffin signs near the bathrooms indicating which side was the "men's" and which side, the "women's"!

One of our favorite places was the ballroom theater. They had converted it into a Halloween Swing Party, with a huge swing band and plenty o' ambiance!

Here is the back wall of the theater, lit by a "witchy" spotlight....

One of the spooky long banners that lined the side walls...

Here's what it looked like when I used my flash

Here is the swing band! I loved them because: 1. The conductor was a woman 2. She was funny and witty 3. Most of the band wore some sort of costume.

We laughed, danced and had much fun!! What a night. Even after all of that, we still went out and grabbed something to eat...

After the parade, at a restaurant--one tired-but- happy-witch!

AND THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS THE STORY OF HALLOWEEN!
UP NEXT, MONNNNNSSSTTTERRRRS!