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I am excited beyond belief because tonight is the night of the first rehearsal for Universal's Halloween Horror Nights. I was fortunate enough to be cast as scareactor (ie, a Halloween monster) for the show, which means Halloween for me actually begins on September 18. My role, by the way, is a psychopath running amog in an outside scare zone called Psychoscarapy. The story line is that the inmates of a particularly nasty asylum have escaped and found their way onto a Halloween street party on the streets of New York City. Too bad for those poor New Yorkers! Muh hahahahaha!
And oddly enough, I thought this Halloween was going to be a bust, too. For the past three years my friends and I were running a really successful home haunt in Clermont, Florida we called Rose's Haunted Graveyard. We started with a few simple tombstones in the front yard, but that grew into last year's haunt which included a graveyard complete with gnarly trees and lanterns, a cornfield with scarecrow scareactors and a walk-through crypt. We had hundreds of people show up for the haunt, and this year it was going to be even bigger. Unfortunately, we were only renting the house and the guy that owned it sold it out from under us. I wound up in an apartment in Orlando and my friends, Bryan and Rose, went back home to Oregon. I figured Halloween was over, at least for this year, and then the Horror Nights opportunity came about.
I guess you just can't keep a good monster down.
This, of course, is not my first rodeo. This will be the fifth time (sixth, if you count working the trick or treat candy stations at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party at the Magic Kingdom) appearence as a Halloween monster at a major venue. I did Queen Mary's Shipwreck (which is now called Dark Harbor) in 2000, 2001 and 2002, and Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights in 2006.
For all of you out there who have always wondered what it's like to perform at Knott's or Universal or one of the other major venues, I'll continue to post my experiences as they occur. For anyone interested and who likes to dig, I wrote extensively of my experiences as a slider at Shipwreck on the Forum in 2002. I would image those posts are still there buried in the archives.
But now, on to the first rehearsal! Wish me luck!
And oddly enough, I thought this Halloween was going to be a bust, too. For the past three years my friends and I were running a really successful home haunt in Clermont, Florida we called Rose's Haunted Graveyard. We started with a few simple tombstones in the front yard, but that grew into last year's haunt which included a graveyard complete with gnarly trees and lanterns, a cornfield with scarecrow scareactors and a walk-through crypt. We had hundreds of people show up for the haunt, and this year it was going to be even bigger. Unfortunately, we were only renting the house and the guy that owned it sold it out from under us. I wound up in an apartment in Orlando and my friends, Bryan and Rose, went back home to Oregon. I figured Halloween was over, at least for this year, and then the Horror Nights opportunity came about.
I guess you just can't keep a good monster down.
This, of course, is not my first rodeo. This will be the fifth time (sixth, if you count working the trick or treat candy stations at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party at the Magic Kingdom) appearence as a Halloween monster at a major venue. I did Queen Mary's Shipwreck (which is now called Dark Harbor) in 2000, 2001 and 2002, and Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights in 2006.
For all of you out there who have always wondered what it's like to perform at Knott's or Universal or one of the other major venues, I'll continue to post my experiences as they occur. For anyone interested and who likes to dig, I wrote extensively of my experiences as a slider at Shipwreck on the Forum in 2002. I would image those posts are still there buried in the archives.
But now, on to the first rehearsal! Wish me luck!