Screamworld

Yesterday was my first day working at Screamworld here in Houston- as you can probably imagine, it's a haunted house.  :)

I got a call on Wednesday asking if I could come in the next day to begin work- of course I can!  It's a little different than most of the performance stuff I've done, but there is something to be said for diversity.  I was a bit shy at first- definitely voyeuristic in my first few hours... watching everyone as they stood in lines for latex and airbrushing... listening to the conversations that I didn't really have a place in.  Jojo (the woman who hired me) warned me when I got there, "It takes a special kind of f*ed up to work here."  ::nervous laugh:: 

As the time went on, I realized a bunch of the actors were actually from Astroworld- the theme park I had my first gig at.  In that way, it was kind of like a family reunion... knowing you have some sort of intertwined past with these nameless and vaguely familiar faces.

As opening grew close, we listened to Chicken (not sure why he's called that) yell out some critiques.  Everyone recited "Don't touch the customer" in unison, and we scuttled off after his motivation to "Get in your holes!" ..apparently that's the horror version of the stage manager yelling out "Places!"

..a little scare for the road