Haunted Theatres

[cornerofmadness]

one of the profs is active in the local theatre and upon seeing my decorated office (I'll post pictures tomorrow, i'm beat) invited me to help with the haunted theatre production. It's been 18 years since i've been working with a theatre but it felt very good. As I was stumbling around trying to find where everyone was I saw a dark ugly staircase leading into the basement and said, 'don't wanna go down there.'

Three guesses where i'm working. Yeah, in the very old earthen basement with narrow tunnels all over including some that used to cross the street to an old hotel. I helped out for two hours and my hand went from swollen and painful which it's been for two days (the WIND was causing pain today) to completely numb and unable to work it.

It'll tell you this, that old theatre has been brought back nicely and there's a huge upstairs and up there were two gorgeous Asian wooden chairs with dueling dragons as the chair backs (turns out they were donated by my ob/gyn) and i got to meet the mother of two of my students. It was fun.

speaking of fun, try this. It's addictive. I got it from midnightsjane and it builds your vocab as you donate rice... vocab game

Comments

[nowhere-winry.livejournal.com]

Of course you're in the basement.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the scary hand hewn basement

[nowhere-winry.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course. Where the bodies were pitched....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort. I doon't know its history but that would be cool

[nowhere-winry.livejournal.com]

Knowing the history or finding out that's where the bodies were pitched?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

both

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

u r skeery.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

just a little

[nowhere-winry.livejournal.com]

All one and the same.

[tinpanalley.livejournal.com]

Very cool about decorating in the theater! Definitely less cool that you have to do in the creepy basement. Yikes!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the dressing rooms are down there. We're converting them into various parts of the haunted theatre.

[tinpanalley.livejournal.com]

Then, I kind of feel sorry for the actors too. Although, some of the dressing rooms I've used could definitely be featured in a haunted tour.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

same here. the ones in college you had to get past the documented haunt in the place. He liked to push...

[tinpanalley.livejournal.com]

I've worked in a couple of theaters that had noted ghosts. One was a one-legged prostitute. Never saw her, but there were often weird noises in the hallway that couldn't be explained.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

A one-legged prostitute. I'd love to know the history of that one

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

OoOoOo working with that spooky theater sounds fun (sorry about your arthritis though *dispenses Bengay*), and I love the words for rice game. If you need me, I'll be building my vocab and feeding the hungry :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was fun. Actually it's the nerve damage in that hand...

and isn't that game fun

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Sorry abou the hand but that theater sounds like fun.

And that rice game is a great idea.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was. i had forgotten how much I enjoyed being in the theatre. Well I did remember but i kept telling myself it's too far away to be involved with

i know that rice game is fun