Meerkat Phantom Manor 1911

Setup on Halloween Weekend

Garage Cleanup and dry-run Oct 29 & 30, all-day, at Meerkat Manor

Show Day, Monday Oct 31, costuming beginning at Noon, at Meerkat Manor
Show Opens at 6 PM.

Creation

• Partition areas, hang fabric
• Set rugs
• Setup effects, hang lights
• Costuming
• Set furniture pieces
• Hang photos
• Test sound
• Dress rehearsal

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Show Day Begins at Noon on Oct 31

• Costuming begins at Noon.
• The official open will be at 6 or 7 PM, with a dress rehearsal before that.
• The scene is pronounced dead around 9 PM, with the entire show packed into the crypt by 10 PM.

Equipment, Set Pieces, Props, Costume Items

(Mostly stuff Randal pulls from storage)

Items marked with bold have not yet been checked for this year.

• Book Case and Curios for 'Museum of the Weird': sculls, ritual objects, scientific equipment, pickled specimens in jars.
• Sculls
• Victorian Fabric
• Black fabric
• Lights, blacklights, LED ghost spotlight
• Hats
• Contact lenses
• Make-up kit
• Vests
• Neckties
• Mary Poppins dress
• Antique items
• Extension cords
• Smoke Machines
• The big pane of glass
• Ghoul for upstairs window
• Dry ice? With rice cooker (fetch dry ice early Monday)
• Baby bones
• Braided ropes and tassels
• Sound equipment
• Rugs
• Dead flowers
• Violet wand
• Scary little girl dresses
• Clips and pins for hanging fabric
• Snax and drinx for actors
• Candy!!

Prior Setup

• Clean garage
• Trim trees
• Decorate Madame Roseanne's Pet Cemetery
• Pull items from storage
• Another ghastly photo session?

Ponder

• Can we include more neighbors?
• More space cleared for more rooms?
• Crystal chandelier
• Multi-lingual
• Crowd control distractions