Sing Along Sound of Music

[PaloAltoCougar]

Chicago was incredible!!!!! Easily the second best musical ever put on film (SOM is #1).

Y's observation in another thread reminded me of an experience I had over the holidays that I don't think I've reported on: The Sing-Along Sound of Music at the Castro Theater in SF. My sister sprung for all of her nephews and nieces and me to attend, and it was fabulous, really.

Lots of people dressed for the event, including Nazis, people of both genders wearing dirndls (although the crowd was disappointingly hetero), and a few weird ones (one guy dressed as a big brown blob, and announced he was a lonely goat turd--get it? GET IT???).

The audience was encouraged to shout out comments which were usually very funny, although the only one I can recall at the moment was when the Baroness asked "Why Georg, what kind of woman do you think I am?", some guy, a little light in the loafers, hissed, "A CHEAP TWO-DOLLAR WHORE!". Everyone was also given goody bags that including a New Year's Eve popper, which we were instructed to fire when Maria and the Captain kissed for the first time. Needless to say, people disobeyed that instruction, opting instead to fire them off at inopportune moments--like when Georg looks down from the window and sees Rolfe the mailboy down below, thus turning the scene into a kind of Tommy Boy looking-at-the- girl-in-the-pool moment.

I'm surprised they don't do this in Utah, as between women who love the movie, and guys who love to mock, it would do very well.

[il Padrino Ute]

Y's observation in another thread reminded me of an experience I had over the holidays that I don't think I've reported on: The Sing-Along Sound of Music at the Castro Theater in SF. My sister sprung for all of her nephews and nieces and me to attend, and it was fabulous, really.

Lots of people dressed for the event, including Nazis, people of both genders wearing dirndls (although the crowd was disappointingly hetero), and a few weird ones (one guy dressed as a big brown blob, and announced he was a lonely goat turd--get it? GET IT???).

The audience was encouraged to shout out comments which were usually very funny, although the only one I can recall at the moment was when the Baroness asked "Why Georg, what kind of woman do you think I am?", some guy, a little light in the loafers, hissed, "A CHEAP TWO-DOLLAR WHORE!". Everyone was also given goody bags that including a New Year's Eve popper, which we were instructed to fire when Maria and the Captain kissed for the first time. Needless to say, people disobeyed that instruction, opting instead to fire them off at inopportune moments--like when Georg looks down from the window and sees Rolfe the mailboy down below, thus turning the scene into a kind of Tommy Boy looking-at-the- girl-in-the-pool moment.

I'm surprised they don't do this in Utah, as between women who love the movie, and guys who love to mock, it would do very well.

Had I thought you could have got me a ticket, I would have been there with my own goodie bag of water balloons, bottle rockets and my youngest son's marshmallow blowgun.

[YOhio]

Sounds great PAC. I sense a certain trend in your recent posting that tells me you're looking at a sliver of light from the inside of an opening closet door.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Sounds great PAC. I sense a certain trend in your recent posting that tells me you're looking at a sliver of light from the inside of an opening closet door.

Oh, I'm out there, and LOVING IT!