Annie stage manager Luanne organised a singalong Sound of Music screening at Victoria Cinema (I know they're the enemy, but HO probably won't let us do anything that fun) and my friend Emma and decided that we absolutely had to go, being the musical nerds that we are!
Then I got an email from Emma saying she wasn't going to dress up! Now, anyone who knows me knows that this is simply not on! So I emailed her back and said, "Yes, you are. We're going as the 'girls in white dresses in blue satin sashes'." Done.
We knew we would be a success when we were sitting in the car on Vic St and a woman walked past, did a double take and cracked up. And all she could see were our pigtails with blue ribbon in them!
So, there were about 35 nutters who took over the theatre, mainly nuns and a few Bavarian tarts, as well as other "favourite things" - kittens, roses, moonbeams and brown paper packages tied up with string!
Anyway, loaded up with nibbles and as much champagne as we could handle the movie started....and so did we!
There were two men in the audience who had never seen the film before.....and they still haven't!
Now, if you've heard of the Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings that are quite wild, I can assure you that the Sound of Music crew are ten times more insane! Well, Mags, Emma and I were anyway. Noone else would join us up front for the dance numbers! Our "So long, Farewell" was a hit even though the three of us had to play seven children, and Emma and I couldn't resist they Austrian folk dance. We are such dance nerds!
Anyway, I got quite tiddly on champagne and all of you people who think you know me so well, would not have recognised me. The good little Catholic girl in a pure white dress way up in the back row who called out "March of the Penguins" when the nuns came on!
Anyway, with all the booing and hissing at the Nazis, Rolf and Baroness Schraeder and singing every song at the top of my lungs and calling out rude things whenever Captain Von Trapp mentioned his whistle (hehe) I have no voice left today.
And I will never be able to watch The Sound of Music with a straight face again. And I sure as hell would not be allowed to see a live show of it!
But the absolutely fabulous news is...we've convinced the organisers to do it all again, with GREASE!!!!!!!! (Which then prompted Emma and I into a Grease medley standing on Vic St at half time, with drunk people walking past looking at us funny)!
So, if you want to come along - and believe me you should! Let me know, so I can give Luanne numbers. It's only $30 and it is sooooooooo much fun! Plus you get all the booze you can handle.
And after Grease, it's going to be Priscilla, Queen of the Desert!
I hope Victoria Cinema knows what they're letting themselves in for!
2 comments:
That sounds like SO much fun! I've always wanted to go in costume to a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening, but I've never been able to con my friends into coming with me. The Sounds of Music would be even more fun, since the music is a million times better!
(that was from Jenni... forgot to sign in. Blonde moment!)
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