Halloween: Part I
Two days before it was Halloween in America, it was Halloween in HK for the SOMA kids. The adults in the cast had decided that we needed to do something fun for the poor little children who would miss the festivities in the states, and so we planned a rocking party. Halloween fell on a Monday here, which luckily happend to be our day off, but a bunch of the company was going to Macau for the day to see another Troika show, West Side Story, so we decided that Sunday night would be special.
During Saturday's show we started getting excited, and planned some trick-or-treating for Sunday night. During Sunday's first show, however, is when we started to really get in the mood. We all got swept up in the Halloween spirit, and rather than a conventional trick-or-treat in the hotel, we decided to do it with clues, like a scavenger hunt. We spent the first shows thinking of rhyming clues that would lead the kids to our rooms, with the idea that I would figure out their different paths, and it would all be more of a mystery, and a little more spread out. Here's my clue:
You'll often see her with lines on her face,
She eats little children at an alarming pace!
She sometimes looks old, but is pretty young.
Go get some candy, or she'll eat your tongue.
The idea was that the clues would be tough enough to make them think, but not impossible. Mine was perfect, since I play a game where the youngest kid in the company, Mary, blows "hungry dust" on me, and then she turns into a pizza, and I have to eat (tickle) her. So after spending hours on clues, I figured out paths for the three teams of kids, and by the time the shows were over we were ready. Forget acting and thinking about being onstage, we were in the Halloween spirit! Every time I'd be in the wings someone would have an idea about the festivities, although luckily the show still went off without a hitch.
On Sunday night I ran home from the show and slapped some scary vampire makeup on my face. I met all the kids in the 4th floor bar (were they pre-partying?) and told them how it would work. From midnight until about 2 they were going from room to room following clues and collecting a TON of candy. They all looked so cute it was unbelievable. Little Mary was dressed like Belle from head to toe (including some professionally done hair). We also had a ladybug, a lion, a giant spider, a cave man, and some cartoon characters that I didn't recognize. All the adults dressed up, and dressed their rooms up in unique ways. Some were haunted houses, some had themes. By the time the trick-or-treating was over the kids had already had the time of their lives.
It wasn't over though, becuase we all met in a huge room to tell a scary ghost story. Our Captain, Jim, jumped out of the bathroom at the end, and some of the kids almost peed themselves. We watched the Michael Jackson THRILLER video, and they were out of there by 2:30 am. They all said it was the scariest, and most fun Halloween they'd ever had. We did an awesome job!!!
During Saturday's show we started getting excited, and planned some trick-or-treating for Sunday night. During Sunday's first show, however, is when we started to really get in the mood. We all got swept up in the Halloween spirit, and rather than a conventional trick-or-treat in the hotel, we decided to do it with clues, like a scavenger hunt. We spent the first shows thinking of rhyming clues that would lead the kids to our rooms, with the idea that I would figure out their different paths, and it would all be more of a mystery, and a little more spread out. Here's my clue:
You'll often see her with lines on her face,
She eats little children at an alarming pace!
She sometimes looks old, but is pretty young.
Go get some candy, or she'll eat your tongue.
The idea was that the clues would be tough enough to make them think, but not impossible. Mine was perfect, since I play a game where the youngest kid in the company, Mary, blows "hungry dust" on me, and then she turns into a pizza, and I have to eat (tickle) her. So after spending hours on clues, I figured out paths for the three teams of kids, and by the time the shows were over we were ready. Forget acting and thinking about being onstage, we were in the Halloween spirit! Every time I'd be in the wings someone would have an idea about the festivities, although luckily the show still went off without a hitch.
On Sunday night I ran home from the show and slapped some scary vampire makeup on my face. I met all the kids in the 4th floor bar (were they pre-partying?) and told them how it would work. From midnight until about 2 they were going from room to room following clues and collecting a TON of candy. They all looked so cute it was unbelievable. Little Mary was dressed like Belle from head to toe (including some professionally done hair). We also had a ladybug, a lion, a giant spider, a cave man, and some cartoon characters that I didn't recognize. All the adults dressed up, and dressed their rooms up in unique ways. Some were haunted houses, some had themes. By the time the trick-or-treating was over the kids had already had the time of their lives.
It wasn't over though, becuase we all met in a huge room to tell a scary ghost story. Our Captain, Jim, jumped out of the bathroom at the end, and some of the kids almost peed themselves. We watched the Michael Jackson THRILLER video, and they were out of there by 2:30 am. They all said it was the scariest, and most fun Halloween they'd ever had. We did an awesome job!!!
posted by Beth at 3:27 AM
2 Comments:
Beth - you are the greatest! It reminds me of the time you (and Kath/Rob) turned the garage into a haunted house with the Dowiatts. Love, D
When you get back to NYC you should get a job as an event planner-you'd be good at it!
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