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Complete this phrase: "Catherine couldn't run away fast enough after she witnessed...!!"
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Bramwell's audition for The Doodletown Pipers
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Bramwell's one man puppet show involving no actual puppets
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I would have loved to have seen both of those!! [nodassent] [toothy10] [toothy9] [toothy10] [toothy9] [toothy10] [thumb]
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Performance art at its very finest, I'm sure.
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([pointing-up] One can only hope!! Not to mention something Adriana Pena could never ever hope to outdo!!)
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Stuttering and singing are seldom a good mix.
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([pointing-up] Too true!! [ghost_wink])
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Particularly with a strong Bolivian accent
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([pointing-up] I can't even begin to imagine!! [ghost_nowink])
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MB, it's something that defies written description. You really did have to be there.
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([pointing-up] Now that the costume galas seem to be a thing of the past, it's probably an experience I can never hope to have!!)
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Adriana stopped attending festivals at some point in the early 1990's. Trust me, MB, I am not exaggerating but people who had absolutely no interest in the festivals or Dark Shadows in general, always wanted to know what Adriana did in the costume gala. And they were never disappointed.
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([pointing-up] She probably attended Fests that I also attended, but I didn't always attend the costume galas. I have no memory of having seen her. And judging by the picture you paint, if I had seen her, I would definitely remember!! [ghost_cheesy])
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She appeared in a few skits as well. The most memorable was the 20th anniversary skit back in 1986. This was a Jeff Thompson skit and it achieved a level of controlled insanity that Jeff never reached again. Adriana was cast as Mrs. Johnson and made her entrance carrying a broom and began sweeping the stage. Very method, huh?
She had a bit of dialogue that contained a major plot twist. She announced that she was the mother of Dave Woodard Junior. (Bet you didn't see that one coming!) But her accent was so thick, no one in the audience had any clue of what she had said. Jeff had to repeat the speech for the benefit of the audience.
A blooper unique to the skits.
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([pointing-up] Wow! [ghost_blink])
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Unfortunately, very few of the early skits are not on YouTube.
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([pointing-up] Although, maybe that's for the best if her participation in them is any example...)
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I saw it live and a few times since then. The early skits are quite raw, for lack of a better word, and are uniquely fascinating. But so is roadkill.
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([pointing-up] An interesting way to put it!! [ghost_grin])
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I wasn't at this particular festival but Helen Samaras told me a great story about a California event. The script was much too long and the author decided to edit it the day it was performed but never incorporated the changes into the cue cards. Whoever was doing the cue cards was having a hard time keeping up with what was going on onstage, so they were several pages behind the actors. Under normal circumstances, Helen is very soft spoken and demure. Not this time! At one point, she was so frustrated that she actually said: I'd say my next line if they ever get to the right g*dd*mn f*cking cue card
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([pointing-up] In a way that must have been too funny!! Though I doubt at the time the actors thought so!! [ghost_nowink])
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I saw the skit on video years ago and it made Plan Nine From Outer Space look like Citizen Kane. Besides the cue card snafu, there were other things that contributed to the overall weirdness. There happened to be a wedding reception going on in one of the adjacent rooms and mariachi music would filter in during the most inopportune moments. Someone got the bright idea of using masking tape on the collapsible room dividers to block the sound of the music. Unfortunately, whoever was in charge of the masking tape was very close to the video camera. The sound of the masking tape being unraveled was exactly like listening to the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles
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([pointing-up] Sounds like the whole incident was too insane for words!!)
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The audience was growing more and more impatient with the skit which seemed to be going on and on like Shogun. At a certain point, you can hear the audience chanting very loudly Movie Movie Movie. Not necessarily a chant for a DS movie. I think that they would have settled for any movie at that point.