Haunt

Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat

I have a legitimate excuse for not posting on Wednesday this time! Honestly!
There's this halloween haunt thing that I volunteer for.... I'd call it a haunted house, but it's more than that. It's this trail that goes through a park in my area and they've set up sheds for sets and props everywhere and stuff like that. Anywho.
So I volunteer to act along this trail. And to say it's a time-sucker would be an understatement. If you want to get a good part you show up at 4 or so. School ends at roughly 2:30. I get home and can do my homework at like 3. 3-4. That's not a lot of time to do much of anything, even homework. By the time you're out of set and get home it's like, 11 or later. It's HARD WORK. But so much fun.

The first night that I worked was Monday, the 18th. This was 'press night', where they allow the cameras and reporters and families of actors to come through. I arrived with my good buddy Lauren and my brother. There was a bit of a mix up with paperwork so I requested that Lauren stand in line while I figure things out with my brother. I asked her to get us a part in the pavilion which meant we would be inmates in a prison. As I'm signing some papers she comes up to me and says, "I'm sorry, MJ, I had to." And I was all, "what?" So she tells me, "The chesire cat was open...." (oh yeah, forgot to mention that the theme for this year is Alice in Wonderland) and I know how much she loves Ches, and I don't really mind all that much so I'm like, that's cool. I'll go sign up as the Caterpillar (cuz he's in the same set.) When I go up to the casting person I ask for the Caterpillar, but he's taken, so I go with the next best thing: The March Hare. Not in the same set as Ches, but I figured it'd work out anyway.

http://ursulav.deviantart.com/art/March-Hare-and-Dormouse-57971384

So as you've probably worked out already, I can be a bit of a nut ball some of the time.... all of the time. This really helped me with the March Hare roll. That, and I've seen both the Disney version and Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland, multiple times. So the Hatter and I played off of each other's acts and had an awesome time with our tea set and crazy techno music.
I guess I must've done pretty well because one of the casting crew (they came through to give us candy for our throats [lots of yelling] and make sure our set was okay) requested I take up the roll for the remainder of my nights at the Haunt! Delighted, I naturally agreed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio1movies/2010/01/

So far I have worked as the Hare 2 nights. Press Night (which was Monday) and Wednesday the 20th. On Weds I actually received a different costume than the one in the pic you see above, and slightly different makeup. If I can ever get my phone to sync with my computer, I'll post it. Basically there was more black than red... my eyes and lips were painted red in the above pic, and the new one I've black lips and dark streaks around my eyes. The hat-ears were the same, but the jacket was different. They gave me a red shirt with a vest. By far the coolest piece of my costume were my glasses. Yellow lenses and bedazzles, round, black rims. THEY'RE FREAKING AWESOME. More need not be said.

Because it's my birthday today, I won't be working tonight. It's closed tomorrow and Monday. I am, however, working next Tues. Weds. (maybe) Thurs. Fri. and Sun/Halloween. Lauren hopes to be the Hatter on Halloween and I hope my position as the March Hare will help convince the casters to let her have it. My brother would also like to be the Hatter, but we don't know what day. I think both of them would make awesome Hatter's, plus it would be so much fun to be in set with them.

...the latex for my nose makes my face itch.
I love my March Hare role. :)