(Pemguicon) Buffy versus Darth Maul (and Regan, Bush jr. and Al Gore)_
Though Amy has already posted about Buffy, I still feel like posting about it myself. Maybe we can do Buffy as Rashomon :=)
Guest of Honour Joan Vinge agreedb to play the Parking Lady, so my friend Cathy (as the traffic cop) got the hot of writing Joan Vinge a parking ticket. My friend Matt got out of his Pope costume long enough to play the victim boy Buffy saves in the opening number. We ended up needing a Horned Denon so I drafted a girl dressed as a Nazgul Bunny to play him (who was that masked Wraith? I want to thank her); she twisted the ears into horns and it worked great.
We got Luke (who played Spike) to stall for Davroz to arrive, as Davroz was racing back to con from shooting graduations hours away. Luke does some funny if painfully twisted comedy rap….like the Spice Girls spoof “If you wannabe a slayer you have got to stake”. Luke was great, he stalled for an hour of preshow. He told the audience “they want me to stall for *another 10 minutes*?” and did that with his Firefly rant song (which I actually want) and “Fan Girls shake your booty” (I was amused to see Malka shaking her booty onstage.
Davroz arrived, swooping through backstage in the red pimp-suit and his own interpretation of the demon Sweet (I love the Darth Maul horns); I’ll post pics of him as soon as I get ‘em.
Anne was amazing as Buffy, especially since I didn’t get her the episode until a week before the musical-pays to have someone who teaches “Dancing for Geeks” and digs Buffy playing her. My friend Gail made such a perfect Giles it was spooky. Maggi and Rain made one lovely couple as Willow and Tara (I kept looking out the conrer of my eye when I was sposed to be “researching”-you would’ve too, and at least one friend can’t get “I;m Under Your Spell” out of her head. As anyone who’s seen Amy’s journal shows she did excellently as Anya. We both did amazingly, at least from what everyone who came up to us later said :=)
Davroz was something cool as Sweet, even if it took him all night to get the latex off his head. Cherie did a great Dawn dance, especially with minions gathefred mere dats before (and who so graciously wore the politician masks). Con-chair Bill Putt was the guy who fell out of the curtains as the burned townsperson in Sweet’s number, as opposed to Laurie the tapdancer (yay volunteers!) Cathy got to die in front of the stage as she played the Reagan minion (as opposed to Gore and Dubya minions),
And Luke kicked total ass as Spike. Even with no microphones (as shadow cast is sposed to be lipsynch) he not only sang and said all his lines but could be heard over the DVD. I loved how convincing he made the scene where Spike grabs the priest in “Rest In Peace”; his friend Carrie (who was Brad) in the audience was the priest and wyhen he grabbed her I think some folks scattered. And I nearly cried when he and Buffy had that kiss scene at the end.
And seems Amy and I will be reprising our roles at tobeCONtinued next week.
Guest of Honour Joan Vinge agreedb to play the Parking Lady, so my friend Cathy (as the traffic cop) got the hot of writing Joan Vinge a parking ticket. My friend Matt got out of his Pope costume long enough to play the victim boy Buffy saves in the opening number. We ended up needing a Horned Denon so I drafted a girl dressed as a Nazgul Bunny to play him (who was that masked Wraith? I want to thank her); she twisted the ears into horns and it worked great.
We got Luke (who played Spike) to stall for Davroz to arrive, as Davroz was racing back to con from shooting graduations hours away. Luke does some funny if painfully twisted comedy rap….like the Spice Girls spoof “If you wannabe a slayer you have got to stake”. Luke was great, he stalled for an hour of preshow. He told the audience “they want me to stall for *another 10 minutes*?” and did that with his Firefly rant song (which I actually want) and “Fan Girls shake your booty” (I was amused to see Malka shaking her booty onstage.
Davroz arrived, swooping through backstage in the red pimp-suit and his own interpretation of the demon Sweet (I love the Darth Maul horns); I’ll post pics of him as soon as I get ‘em.
Anne was amazing as Buffy, especially since I didn’t get her the episode until a week before the musical-pays to have someone who teaches “Dancing for Geeks” and digs Buffy playing her. My friend Gail made such a perfect Giles it was spooky. Maggi and Rain made one lovely couple as Willow and Tara (I kept looking out the conrer of my eye when I was sposed to be “researching”-you would’ve too, and at least one friend can’t get “I;m Under Your Spell” out of her head. As anyone who’s seen Amy’s journal shows she did excellently as Anya. We both did amazingly, at least from what everyone who came up to us later said :=)
Davroz was something cool as Sweet, even if it took him all night to get the latex off his head. Cherie did a great Dawn dance, especially with minions gathefred mere dats before (and who so graciously wore the politician masks). Con-chair Bill Putt was the guy who fell out of the curtains as the burned townsperson in Sweet’s number, as opposed to Laurie the tapdancer (yay volunteers!) Cathy got to die in front of the stage as she played the Reagan minion (as opposed to Gore and Dubya minions),
And Luke kicked total ass as Spike. Even with no microphones (as shadow cast is sposed to be lipsynch) he not only sang and said all his lines but could be heard over the DVD. I loved how convincing he made the scene where Spike grabs the priest in “Rest In Peace”; his friend Carrie (who was Brad) in the audience was the priest and wyhen he grabbed her I think some folks scattered. And I nearly cried when he and Buffy had that kiss scene at the end.
And seems Amy and I will be reprising our roles at tobeCONtinued next week.