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Here is the information, I saw it I just thought everyone would want to know. I think that
one was reading this site.
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Number 233. February 3, 2011
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Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,
ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark Shadows (DS),
announces the following breaking news in this Online News Update "bulletin."
**** SHADOWGRAM PREMIERE-ANNOUNCEMENT:
THE DARK SHADOWS FESTIVAL PRESENTS
A SALUTE TO DARK SHADOWS' 45TH ANNIVERSARY
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19 - SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2011
**** SG PREMIERE-ANNOUNCES:
HOTEL LOCATION & SLEEPING ROOM INFORMATION
OUR SPECIAL GUESTS
INITIAL PLANS: CONVENTION EVENTS
--- 2011 DS FESTIVAL - WE RETURN TO BROOKLYN, NY
In December, SG Update #232 exclusively released first word of the annual DS
Festival convention. SG now premiere-announces the latest just-confirmed Fest
news:
DARK SHADOWS 45th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
August 19, 20 & 21, 2011
New York Marriott Hotel at the Brooklyn Bridge
333 Adams Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: 718-246-7000
OUR SPECIAL GUESTS:
Jonathan Frid, Lara Parker, David Selby, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Jerry Lacy, Marie
Wallace, Kathleen Cody, Sharon Smyth, Donna Wandrey, Robert Cobert - and others
to be announced.
This is Robert Cobert's and Kathleen Cody's first East Coast Fest (she joined us
in Burbank, CA, for the 2010 Fest). We welcome the Fest return of Sharon Smyth
.This brings together 2 of the younger DS actresses. (Kathleen portrayed Hallie
and Carrie Stokes. Sharon was Sarah Collins.)
Planned activities include: New, exclusive dramatic performances by the stars;
free autographs and photo opportunities with most of our guests; guest/audience
question-and-answer sessions; rare video screenings; fan costume/presentation
event (for fun, not in competition), memorabilia auction; contests; a wide
variety of DS merchandise for sale (some debuting at the Fest); historical
presentation and discussions; updating the upcoming DS movie starring Johnny
Depp; and a special Sunday night 45th Anniversary Gala Banquet with gifts and a
DS Awards Ceremony with the stars.
--- Sleeping rooms at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott Hotel are now available to
reserve at the special reduced Dark Shadows rate of $159.00 (+ tax) per night.
You must mention "Dark Shadows Festival" to receive this discount rate when you
directly call the hotel to reserve sleeping rooms.
The hotel says fans "now can reserve accommodations by phone at this reservation
number: 1-800-266-9432. Please refer to the 'Dark Shadows Festival 2011 Room
Block' to receive the group discounted rate."
It is recommended that fans make their hotel reservations as early as possible,
as the number of rooms at the discount rate is limited.
Please note that the Marriott Hotel is located just a couple of blocks from the
Brooklyn Bridge, right across from lower Manhattan. The greater NYC area is
easily accessible from the hotel via subway, bus, taxi, car, or walking.
To help with hotel costs - and often as a fun way to meet new DS friends - fans
may contact the Fest's Hotel Roommates Coordinator, Pam Jarman. She will relay
contact information between people seeking roommates. They then make their own
arrangements.
For Roommate information, please send a Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE)
to Pam Jarman, P.O. Box 45674, Los Angeles, CA 90045, or email Pam at
pljarman@...
---- IMPORTANT 45TH ANNIVERSARY FEST NOTES:
This announcement is to inform fans about the hotel location and room
reservations, plus provide general weekend programming information. SG, the
Fest, and the Roommates Coordinator cannot make hotel or travel arrangements for
anyone.
Membership rates and the Banquet price are NOT yet announced. In the coming
weeks, SG Online Updates and the new SG #119 print issue will announce these and
other Fest news as details are confirmed.
The Fest plans a mass postal-mail with general information. It will include
membership information and a reservation form that you must use when sending
your payment(s) for the convention and the banquet dinner/awards gala.
To receive this mass mailing in advance, please send a business-size
Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE) with $.44 postage (U.S. addresses)
(Foreign: Include an International Reply Coupon, available from your local post
office) on it. Send your SASE to the Fest address:
Dark Shadows Festival
P.O. Box 92
Maplewood, NJ 07040
Upcoming SG Online Updates via the ShadowGram YahooGroup will continue to
premiere-announce more information regarding the Fest. Details also will be in
the new SG #119 Official DS Newsletter print issue, to be sent soon to current
postal-mail subscribers. ((SG print issue subscription information is later in
this Update.))
*** MESSAGES FROM SHADOWGRAM
---- COMING SOON: SG Online Updates with confirmed casting and production plans
for the Depp/Burton DS movie.
--- COMING SOON: SG will report confirmed news from/about the DS personnel, new
and planned DS merchandise, and more.
--- Fans attending the Fest are invited to please share their reports and photos
with SG so those who cannot be there can enjoy the occasion through your
experience. Please send all materials to SG's e- or postal- mail addresses
below.
--- SG also asks all fans to please share DS-related media mentions that you
find at any time. These can be about the DS personnel and their projects, the
new movie, merchandise, etc These items can come online, in print, or on the
air; be international, national, or local; general or detailed; accurate or
incorrect in content. Please identify the complete source and send all materials
to the SG addresses below.
Please include your full name so I can list you as a Contributor in the
published SGs. You also may receive a complementary Contributor's Copy for major
donations of information, funds, postage stamps, supplies, photos, publicity,
assistance, etc. Thank you in advance for sharing.
--- The current print issue SG newsletter is the HUGE Double SG #117-#118, and
the new SG #119 will be ready soon. Future published SGs and the SG Official
Online DS News Updates via the SG YahooGroup will report all the latest definite
DS-related news.
Each full SG postal-mail newsletter expands and explains these brief email
Update posts with details, photos, and more.
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Brooklyn!!!!! Now we do the dance of joy!!!! [dancing_skeletons]
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Dancing skeletons - NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
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Halleluia! I'm so relieved and happy that it's in Brooklyn. That's the best of the East Coast locations, IMO.
How nice to see Sharon Smyth on the guest list after so long! I hope she really does come. I've never met her before, but I've heard such wonderful things about her.
ProfStokes
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Sorry MB! LOL!
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Ooo! I really want to go!
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I'm so happy the Fest is coming home to NYC. Brooklyn is the best possible location outside of Manhattan. The Marriott is also very close to my home. I'm also excited about seeing Sharon Smyth for the first time since my very first Festival in 1999. Thank God we're not going to Newark!
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The Brooklyn Marriott does not allow pets and my friend wanted to travel with is dogs. I am bummed out!
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I hope it stops snowing by then.
(Buried in New England. Literally.)
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According to the booking agent the rooms are going VERY quickly so do not hesitate!
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Yay! wish i could be there i love Brooklyn !
Love Anne [snow_kiss]
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YEAH!!!! Got my room booked!!!!!
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I hope it stops snowing by then.
Dream on.
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How come Old Man Karlen isn't on the guest list????
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Dancing skeletons - NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
[snow_laugh]
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I was wondering that myself. I hope he's announced later.
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This year i booked room it think it will be better then driving back to New Jersey and paying the high bridge tolls everyday. The AAA rate is much higher then the Dark Shadows rate at over $200. in Burbank it was a bit less at $110 compared to $129.
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The AAA rate is much higher then the Dark Shadows rate at over $200. in Burbank it was a bit less at $110 compared to $129.
I noticed that myself. I plan to keep checking to see if the AAA rate goes down
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How come Old Man Karlen isn't on the guest list????
You'd figure, right? It is HIS city! [snow_huh]
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Re the Fest in Brooklyn--I do have a hotel reservation, and am still debating going, but the draw of Jonathan and David Selby performing on stage is a big one, I am hoping family members will come with me to sightsee, they have no interest in DS except for the Depp movie, Saying that, I am very learing of having to travel from the train station in Manhatten to Brooklyn by myself in case no one else wants to come. Is there a safe, not too expensive way to do this, I don't want to take the subway in NY by myself, and I don't know if a cab drive would be prohibitive cost wise, so I would appreciate any info you can give me--thanks!! [snow_huh]
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I can only advise that I have been to NYC several times and have used the subway many times by myself. Most recently I took the subway at 10 pm from JFK to Hearlad square in early Dec with a suite case in toe and the worst thing that happened was going up the stairs with my bag at my destination.
Beth
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I don't know how fast rooms are going but I just set one free. I was going to be there but I like to plan vacations early. One reason is I have a limited number of days that I can take and every time someone puts in for vacation I have fewer days to choose from, without prices I'm not going to just set and wait. So anyway, they have one more free room.
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I think flights will be a big issue this year. On Monday I checked and could get a flight for $250 and it is now up to $391 so I will wait and keep checking. I am confident they will go down again but it's a pain having to check all the time.
I've never taken a subway in NYC and feel kind of silly asking this but how do you know when to get off? Do they announce your destination as it's coming up?
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I wouldn't expect flight prices to go down until gas prices do, if then. Gas prices won't go down until things calm in the middle east and I'd be very susprised if that happened any time soon.
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Teresa, the subway will typically announce a stop before it comes up. Also, I usually find that most subways have a little map of the routes posted on board and you can follow along with it to figure out when your stop is coming up. I have only been on the NYC subway once, but the one in Toronto is like that, and I imagine it will be the same.
I am currently living in China- where like the U.S. subways, the buses will announce your station before you arrive. However, given my abyssmal Chinese, it is no help whatsoever!!!
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I've never taken a subway in NYC and feel kind of silly asking this but how do you know when to get off? Do they announce your destination as it's coming up?
You can access route maps online ahead of time to see the order of the stops if you're really nervous about it, but there's usually also one overhead on the cars. They do announce stops, but it's sometimes about as garbled as placing an order at a fast food drive-through. If you watch out the windows, the name of the station is on the walls in several spots.
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I'm assuming as I live in Staten Island, I can just show up for the festival without having a room? what would be the cost of entry fees, etc?
thanks.
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They have not said what the cost will be, yet.
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Normally one day is $15. And even if it does increase this year, it probably won't go much beyond that. (Before it went up in '04 (or maybe '05 - off the top of my head I don't remember which), it was $10.)
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sounds reasonable. sorry to ask so many questions, but I've never been to one and like to get autographs and merchandise. do you pay for autographs? also, the cover charge includes all the events? sorry to be a pest, but i'd love to go to this. I'd like to plan how much to put aside for the two days so I can spend without worrying too much.
where can I get info on this?
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Hi again. I just put myself on the Shadowgram list. Thanks.
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sorry to ask so many questions
No problem. [snow_smiley]
do you pay for autographs?
Nope.
also, the cover charge includes all the events?
All except the banquet with the stars on Sunday night.
sorry to be a pest, but i'd love to go to this.
You're not being a pest. And I really hope you do get to go. There's nothing like your first Fest.
I'd like to plan how much to put aside for the two days so I can spend without worrying too much.
where can I get info on this?
How much you spend really depends on how much you're willing to spend. Beyond food, your expenses would be for whatever you might want to buy in the dealers room or at the auction. Depending on your self-control, you could spend anywhere from under $100 to over $1000. Though that latter number is if you really lose self-control! [snow_cheesy]
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I guess I really, really lost control at me first fest. What can I say, you only have one first fest.
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I'd like to plan how much to put aside for the two days so I can spend without worrying too much.
where can I get info on this?
The stars do not charge for their autograph with the exception of Jerry Lacy (Rev. Trask) who charges $10 with the money going to animal
charities. Included in the fest fee is a fest book that includes a brief bio and pictures of the stars in attendance. Some folks use this to collect autographs or they buy photos from the stars or venders in the dealer’s room. The stars usually have things they sell (books, comics and T-shirts). Last year Selby had two books and this year no doubt KLS will have her new novel “Dark Passages” (DS meets Shadow of the Vampire).
In The Dealer Room the big players have been MPI who deals authorized DS trinkets (DS picture frames, boxers, cell phone lanyards etc) and Big Finish which has been producing original audio dramas on CDs based on the series and voiced by the original actors these are priced at $15 and the more you buy they will do discount or have in the past. There are usually smaller dealers that have DS memorabilia and other stuff like magazines and collectables from TV shows from 50-70s.
The Fest program starts around 11 and can run to 10 or 11 at night with no breaks for dinner. Newbies have been known to go in to the main room and not come out until the end. So food wise by the time it ends the hotel restaurant will likely be closed but there are pubs within walking distance of the hotel.
Hope this helps
LdyAnne
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Last year Selby had two books
Two new books. [snow_wink] He has written a total of seven, all of which are available at the Fests.
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Thanks for the correction MsCriseyde
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Actually, I thought the last print Shadowgram that just came out did have the fest prices, I thought it was 30 for the whole weekend, and 80(!!!!) dollars for the banquet, which I DO NOT recommend paying for unless you are perhaps a Fest newbie or wants JF's autograph as that is the only way to get it at the Fest, still you can get it cheaper from his website, and as others said, you can get it free in the autograph lines from most of the other stars. I went to a banquet one time and had a good time but it was so crowded I said never again, and you know me, I would rarely if ever say anything negative about JF, but a friend of mine said someone bid several hundred dollars to sit at his table at the Burbank fest banquet last year and he left pretty early, but there may be more to that than I know, still, that poor girl was out a lot of money in addition to her banquet ticket...
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I have not attended a banquet for the last 4 or 5 fest and don't feel I've missed out on anything. A newbie should do it for the experience and it's a good way to meet other fans but the expense and waiting in a ridiculous line to get a table is too much for me. I wish they would mix things up a bit and do either a cocktail party in the evening or just a dance where light food and drink were served.
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Teresa, you make some great suggestions for alternatives for social gatherings to the banquet at the Fests, but suggestions have been made over the years in general and never taken up on, that is the problem, format wise the Fests are pretty much same old same old, I don't know if that is because dear Mr. Pierson has a lock on them or because it is too hard to find new volunteers to help organize them and come up with other activities, but there you have it, and it is certainly true that if new people cannot be found to come up with other ideas due perhaps to the daunting aspect of it, than I guess we should be grateful that we still have the Fests in whatever form, as certainly the basic registration fee has always been so very reasonable.
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but suggestions have been made over the years in general and never taken up on,
This is true at least for the last 10 years I have been going the only change was the year Frid first cam back and it was changed to a two day event with Frid as the only Guest from what I understand this was at Frid's direction.
I don't know if that is because dear Mr. Pierson has a lock on them
Ya think? Mr Pierson, and his clip board, either has no imagination or is such a control freek/ egomaniac who can not accept any idea that has not come from his brain. IMHO he secretly wants the fests to go away. This is based on the the
or because it is too hard to find new volunteers to help organize them and come up with other activities,
Not true there are many folks who would jump at the chance to do new things, this includeds folks that are on or have been the "committee" but who's suggestions are ignored
LdyAnne
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the only change was the year Frid first cam back and it was changed to a two day event with Frid as the only Guest from what I understand this was at Frid's direction.
You're referring to the 2-day '07 Fest that had Frid booked as a special guest, but the announcement also promised "several other DS stars in person" to be welcomed on Friday. And in attendance that year were KLS, Lara Parker, Marie Wallace, Diana Millay, Betsy Durkin, and Henry Plimack.
this includeds folks that are on or have been the "committee" but who's suggestions are ignored
Yep, and as explained in the excerpt below by one of its members, the Festival committee is in name only:
There is no "committee". There were never any "committee meetings". At one point, in the program books, the term "committee" was changed to "staff". The Festival decisions are made by Jim Pierson and Ann Wilson alone.
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I've never been to one and like to get autographs and merchandise.
Bring cash. Otherwise you might find yourself searching for an ATM to buy photos, books or dealers' goodies. There are, of course, exceptions (including the auction and MPI tables), but do have some cash handy.
Hope you can make it to the Fest. [snow_smiley]
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The Festival decisions are made by Jim Pierson and Ann Wilson alone.
I think it would be a stretch to say Ann makes any decisions
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suggestions have been made over the years in general and never taken up on, that is the problem, format wise the Fests are pretty much same old same old,
Same old, same old. That's pretty much why I have decided not to attend this year. The price of gas, hotel and food - I would rather do something different.
I suggested years ago that they decorate one of the banquet halls like the Blue Whale, have music - a sort of a cocktail party. Nothing ever came of it.
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I have a hunch that eliminating the banquet would mean a significant increase in the registration price for the fest. Typically, hotels will provide meeting space for free if there is a substantial meal component in the contract. And the rates that hotels charge for meals are high. (Even snacks are expensive; I remember when I was on the board of a professional organization about 10 years ago, and we were being charged $12 per person for the afternoon break, which consisted of bottled soda and water and treats such as candy bars and crackers with peanut butter or cheese. And way back then, coffee service was $35 a gallon--good luck finding it anywhere near that today!)
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And the rates that hotels charge for meals are high.
Right you are!! I am orgaizing my high school reunion and the tickets are $75pp and that just covers food. And trust me no lobster or any other expensive food on the menu
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Have they announced how to buy tix for the banquet yet?
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Have they announced how to buy tix for the banquet yet?
No not yet the prices were announced in the latest print version of Shadowgram but they want us to wait until they mail the forms out and place it on the Fest site
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Like last year I just cashed in 10,000 Citi thank you rewards points for a $100 Marriott gift card to help pay for the hotel.
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--- Sleeping rooms at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott Hotel are now available to
reserve at the special reduced Dark Shadows rate of $159.00 (+ tax) per night.
The Festival block of $159 rooms is SOLD OUT for Saturday night.
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I am glad I reserved mine.
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The Festival has since added another block of rooms. [easter_smiley]
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Thanks, Nancy!