Shows were scheduled for 7:15, 8:30 and 9:45, but a few technical problems prevented the show from starting on time. Among other things, the music just wasn’t ready.

When the fabulous Dov Schwarz, who was arranging the final music and sound effects together onto the tape to use for the show still wasn’t ready by 8 O’clock or so, Alan decided we needed to do the show anyway, both for the crowd that had been patiently waiting, and for the cast, who needed to do the show a few times with the entire cast and finished sets in place before Hallowe’en.

So without a sound operator or the final music, using a CD of the rehearsal music in a portable boom box brought out to the stage and carried around during the show, The All Hallows Players did put on the first show around 8:30 or so.

Dov arrived with the music sometime later, and a second show was done with the final music at the end of the night. Those that saw these shows had a great time, and many came back the next night or two to see the show again in it’s “final form.” A good time was had by all.

Here’s a few pictures from the first show. As I’m on at the show’s very beginning, there are no pictures until the Dracula segment, and since my part started up again after the Mummy and Notre Dame segments, those are the last pictures from Thursday night.

Dracula and His Brides (he only had two Brides on Thursday)

Drac and his women look on while Larry Talbot laments about
“the change” into The Wolfman. Hey, don’t eat a cow, man.

Ebeneezer Scurge questions The Mummy.

The trick-or-treaters ask for Hallowe’en candy from
The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Hey! Where did that third trick-or-treater come from?

Just a close-up of the above picture.