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HALLOWEEKEND SCENE[10.27.11] [VOL.96 ISSUE 15]
ROCKY HORROR SHOW pg. 7
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Upon entering the Timid Rabbit, one instantly be-comes intrigued. The musky smell of history hits the nose and slightly fades as the eyes travel around the store, flick-ering between masks and props with childlike enthu-siasm as they attempt to see every item crammed inside like a jack-in-the-box, ready to explode.
The ring leader of the show, Anthony Intgroen who goes by his stage name Anthony Gerard as well as the rest of the family, in-stantly bounds up to greet a new customer, eager to share a story and play for a while.
The store has over 1,100 costumes and the family also owns an 18,000 square foot warehouse to store a labyrinth of items, which includes everything from a giant pair of scissors for cut-ting ribbons at openings to a rocket launcher.
The store itself is laced with cinema relics, where a spear from Ben Hur is on dis-play and hiding somewhere in the back is the original shark fin used in Jaws. The store sells most anything you can find at huge Wal-Mart
Halloween centers which continue to pop up on Octo-ber 1 every year.
The Intgroen family, which has owned the store for over 35 years, has a run-ning joke with its regulars: Try to think of an item own-er and collector Anthony Gerard doesn’t have.
“The Halloween USA and places like that cannot afford the types of things we have. They come in and play Hal-loween for one month out of the year and poof they’re gone. When I say name something you don’t think I have, it’s very difficult,” Int-groen said.
The store sells and rents intricate costumes and masks as well as the same essentials easily found at Halloween USA. With the age of the Internet and pop up stores, however, the Timid Rabbit has seen a drop in sales dur-ing their busiest month.
“If you have a restaurant and everyone goes to the restaurant across the street that’s in a trailer and they’re gonna be gone at the end of the season. How would you feel? I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t give a shit,” Intgroen said. “I’ll be here tomorrow. I’ll be behind the
counter dead for three years before they notice it.”
A benefit of the Timid Rabbit, besides the vast amount of options, is the ability to rent. There one can rent a deluxe costume which would normally cost up-wards of $500 for a fraction of the price.
“I find that we have a 99.999999 percent positive response, very rarely do we
have a negative comment, and I think that’s because we don’t do double rent-ing. There is too much of a chance the item could come back damaged, ruined or just not come back at all,” Int-groen said.
The family learned this lesson after a student planned a party around his costume and the man that had rented it two weeks before him ru-
ined it. “To him I was now the
anti-Christ,” Intgroen said. “He had already gotten all his decorations to go with the costume and I’ll never see him again. I’ve got 1,100 costumes. If the one you want is gone, plan a little earlier next year.”
Timid Rabbit: modern Addams familyBy Erin LenczyckiSta� Reporter
Dan Morgner/Western HeraldTimid Rabbit owner Tony Gerard stands behind the counter with one of his zombie masks.
Dan Morgner/Western HeraldThe Timid Rabbit stands at 2011 West Main Street in Kalamazoo.
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If you are no stranger to the halls of the Dalton School of Mu-sic, than you’ve no doubt heard of the annual event ‘Tubaween.’
Tubaween, to those not quite as familiar with it as most Dalton residents are, is a yearly musical
hosted by the Tuba/Euphonium Studio within the Western Mich-igan University School of Music.
“You could describe it as a play or a skit with music heav-ily involved, but we make fun of music because it’s all played on tubas,” said Heather Ewer,
co-author and producer of this year’s Tubaween.
Largely a parody show, this year’s production, “�e Magical Adventures of Tuba-rella,” paro-dies everything Disney.
“It’s all about a glass mouth-piece that was stolen, and ‘Tuba-rella’ needs the mouthpiece to be able to play for her Tuba Christ-mas concert. She can’t do the gig without the mouthpiece, and she has to get it by midnight or else she’ll miss her concert. It’s the only gig she does all year, so it’s super sad!” said Ewer.
Tubaween’s organizers always seek to give their audience a great show that will make people laugh and continue to give them a reason to come back.
“It provides a great escape for people, and it’s something we
�nd that they look forward to every year just because it’s so sil-ly. It’s very random. �ere’s not
a lot of purpose to it, other than to give everybody something to smile at,” said Ewer.
Each year, the show �nds new things to poke fun at. Mike Wawrzynski, the man behind the production’s satyric musical arrangements and stylings, has participated in a number of pre-vious incarnations of Tubaween.
“We’ve done ‘Tuba-ler on the Roof ’ instead of [the popular musical] ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ We did a big play on anything John Williams like ‘Indiana Jones.’ It is completely and 100 percent a parody on all things political and, well, everything,” Wawrzynski said.
Tubaween has enjoyed a fair amount of success since its in-ception about six years ago, and has become a sort of institu-tion within the School of Mu-sic. Wawrzynski has seen much growth since the �rst year he participated in it.
“Every year on Halloween we put on a musical. It started o� really small and grew bigger, into more of a production every year and now we have a full-�edged pit [orchestra]. We’ll probably have a semi-truck trailer soon!”
�ough this year’s parody is largely made up of references from the Disney movies remem-bered fondly from childhood, the humor is generally directed toward a more “mature” college-age audience.
“I would call it ‘PG-13.’ We always have the best intentions to aim for the ‘G’ rating, but through improv, or what have you, there are spots in the show that may bump it up to PG-13,” Wawrzynski said.
�e show will be held in the Dalton Center Recital Hall on Monday, Oct. 31, at 8:15 p.m. �e show should run about an hour and a half, said Wawrzyn-ski.
“It’s a good ol’ time, and you’ll never think of Tubas the same way again,” Warwrzynski said.
‘Tubaween’ promises to enchant this weekendBy Kyle StevensSta� Reporter
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Halloween is quickly ap-proaching, but many students have yet to �nd or purchase a Halloween costume for the week-end’s festivities.
It is not too late to buy cos-tumes and students can do so for a good price.
�e places to buy costumes range from high-end costume shops to thri� stores.
Denise King, the director of marketing at Goodwill Industries in Southwest Michigan, said Hal-loween is Goodwill’s busiest time of year.
“[Halloween] is like our Christmas,” King said.
Commercial Halloween shops like �e Halloween Store on Sta-dium Drive and Roe Costume Shop on Dutton Street sell pre-assembled costumes that are good for last-minute shoppers but can be expensive.
“I make my own costumes for Halloween because they’re so expensive at the costume stores,” Andrea Wright, a junior pre-nursing student at Western Michigan University, said.
Students who are looking for a cheaper alternative o�en cre-ate their own costumes or buy used costumes at thri� stores like Goodwill or Second Impressions.
“At Goodwill you can do a whole lot for a little,” King said. “You can also �nd something unique.”
�ere are other reasons why students build their own cos-tumes and not just price.
“It’s so much more rewarding when people say things like, ‘Oh, awesome costume!’ and you can reply with, ‘�anks, I made it!’” Caitlin Martin, an organizational communication major at WMU, said.
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It is time to dig out those sti-lettos, feather boas and �shnets to prepare for the premiere perfor-mance of a wild cult classic, �e Rocky Horror Show at Miller Au-ditorium, Friday, October 28.
�is show tells the story of a recently married couple, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who run into car trouble and seek help at the site of a light down the road where Dr. Frank ‘n’ Furter is in the midst of his maniacal experi-ments.
With adult themes and intend-ed for mature audiences only, this performance is a rock musical, a spoof of those shady science �c-tion movies, and an outlandish story of sex and seduction.
Emily Duguay, Director of
Arts Management at the Gilmore �eatre Complex, believes de-spite the minor challenges and adjustments that have occurred thus far, this experimental collab-oration with Miller Auditorium will be a success and hopefully return to become an annual per-formance in which patrons look forward to.
“�e sta� at Miller is fantastic and we have had a great time col-laborating with them, and while it has created new challenges for everyone, we have worked through them all so far,” Duguay said. “We have also created the show so that it can be re-mounted – designed and built so that it can break down and go into storage along with costumes that have been designed so that alterations for di�erent actors can be made more easily if this production is
to return.” When moving to a venue of
4,000, one much larger than that of �e University �eatres, there are bound to be some challeng-es, described Alan Knight, stage manager of this production.
“One very large challenge to this show is the fact that Miller is a touring house, which means shows are constantly coming in to perform, so we [cast and crew] are not able to move our set onto the Miller stage until the Wednes-day before opening night,” Knight said.
Compared to a typical produc-tion where at least three technical and dress rehearsals are allot-ted before opening night, Rocky Horror is on a very short time constraint with only one techni-cal and dress rehearsal allowed to perfect this show.
“We [cast and crew] have about two and a half days to load in lights and projectors, focus them, put together the set on stage in
Miller, and tech the show,” Knight said. “�is is a huge challenge.”
Not only is the crew on a time limitation, the cast is feeling the pressure, said Bello Pizzimenti, a junior majoring in Musical �e-atre Performance casted as the part of Rocky, Frank ‘n’ Furter’s creation of an ideal man.
“We get three days this week to make the adjustment from Gilmore to Miller and I imagine the biggest thing will be to make sure the energy and presentation of our performance re�ects the size of the venue compared to where we have been rehearsing,” Pizzimenti said.
Knight said that this show has also worked extremely close with Kevin Abbott, the University �eatre digital media specialist, in premiering the integration of animation and projectors into automated scenery, a brand new feature to �e University �eatre.
“Abbott and his team have cre-ated numerous projections used in the show using so�ware that is used to create video games,” Knight said. “�e show is using a total of six projectors to proj-ect on �ve di�erent projection surfaces ranging from about 40 feet wide to smaller screens that are only eight feet wide which are unnoticeably built right into the set.”
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Courtesy PhotoSophia Araoz as Magenta (character), Zachary McConnell as Frank N’ Furter, Nick Gara�agna as Ri� Ra�.
Rocky horror show to play at WMUBy Cody JanczewskiSta� Reporter
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Western Michigan University’s department of Residence Life is rede�ning its Halloween iden-tity this season now that Haunted Hall has been laid to rest.
A�er an unfortunate decrease in enrollment back in 2005, Res Life saw the opportunity to cre-ate a non-pro�t event open to WMU’s campus and community alike. �e event was known as Haunted Hall. �e haunted at-traction raked in a total of $913 for Big Brothers Big Sisters and �lled three laundry bins full of ed-ible goods to donate to the Gospel Mission in as recent as 2010. But a�er a visit from the Kalamazoo �re marshal back in 2010, Haunt-ed Hall came to an end.
“�e idea and the passion for it still exists,” Laura Darrah, Res Life assistant director, said. “Finding a new and di�erent for-mat for it that’s cost-e�ective and can still involve the campus com-munity in creating it, and be open to the Kalamazoo community to participate is just going to take us a little while and thinking outside of the box. We’re not giving up on the idea. If there’s something that we can do as an alternative, we will.”
Haunted Hall is not a mem-ory le� to the past just yet. Dar-rah explained that it is Res Life’s hope that within the next couple of years, there will be a central-ized attraction for all to enjoy. In the meantime, residence halls are working independently to pro-vide a fun environment for the students within their building and in some cases, the community.
Valley II’s Eicher/LeFevre will be providing activities for children within the community. Treats will be handed out in the Piano Lounge from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Halloween night. All are welcome.
“If you live on campus, watch for information for our Western Community with Kids. Hoekje Hall will be o�ering trick-or-treating,” Darrah said.
Hoekje Hall, located near the
Bernhard Center, is opening its doors to the community for a child-oriented ‘Night of Fright, Frolicking and Fun’ on Monday, Oct. 31, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. �e event promotes safe trick-or-treating and campus-community interaction. All are invited, so stop by and say boo!
“What’s fun is that Hoekje is our transfer student building. We get a great response rate from res-idents. I’m expecting things to be pretty dang cool,” Darrah said.
Hoekje isn’t the only hall with ambitions. Assistant Director of Harrison/Stinson, Jasen Herrera, is putting on his dancing shoes for the hall’s Halloween-themed dance taking place in the Harri-son lounge at 9:30 p.m. on Mon-day, Oct. 31. Activites include a costume contest, free food and music. Costumes are encour-aged!
“We’re still trying to �gure out what kind of ghoulish kinds of things we can get, but that’s the start of it,” Herrera said. “�e whole concept is still kind of new.”
�ere are even more activities on campus for Halloween this year.
“What’s kind of nice for those doing the dances and things, is–because we have so many Hal-loween-related items from doing Haunted Hall–instead of going out to buy things, everyone’s go-ing shopping at Haunted Hall,” said Darrah.
Eldridge/Fox’s Haunted Hall storage room provides students and sta� with a colossal amount of creepy crawlies ranging from decapitated heads to tainted Bar-bie dolls, all dug through and col-lected by Herrera and Draper/Siedschlag R.A., Jacob Heemstra, for their upcoming events.
Draper/Sied is another hall hosting a shindig for its residents on Monday, Oct. 31. Doors are open to the public as well. �e event takes place from 9 p.m. un-til 10:30 p.m. in its dance room located on ground �oor. No cos-tumes are required; however, a costume contest will take place
for those who want to participate and music for all guests looking to get their monster mash on.
“[�ere are] a lot of Halloween things happening in the residence halls, mostly geared toward resi-dents of those buildings. Some are planned by sta�, some are planned by hall government,” said Darrah.
Among activites planned for the haunted holiday is the Hal-
loween dance, taking place in the Bigelow dining hall, on the Fri-day before Halloween. �e dance will take place from 8:30 p.m. to midnight on Friday, Oct. 28. All students are welcome.
Haunting events creep over campusBy Alexis LukerSta� Reporter
Dan Morgner / Western HeraldMcCracken Hall, one of the most likely to be actually haunted halls on campus.
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With Halloween coming up, more and more people are seeking scary thrills.
Two places in the Kalamazoo area to get these thrills are the Pho-bia House on North Douglas Road and the Psycho Ward & Nightmares Haunted House on Ravine Road.
�e Psycho Ward & Nightmares Haunted House are two outdoor attractions for the price of one. It has been around since 2000 and is owned by Phil Stommen. �e Psy-cho Ward is based on the legend of Floyd Cranston, a serial killer con-�ned for many years to the North Carolina Prison for the Crimi-
nally Insane. Nightmares Haunted House, on the other hand, works to discover what their visitors fear most, and then use it against them.
“We set out to create a haunted attraction intense enough to scare the high school-college audience. It’s so scary in fact, that 270 visi-tors decided that they just couldn’t complete the show last season,” Stommen said.
“Our goal was to create a realistic story and environment that would help customers feel as though they had been dropped into the middle of a horror movie-one that they weren’t likely to survive,”
�is haunted house operates without a tour guide, and has an exit at the end of each attraction,
so if visitors feel too scared to move on to the next attraction, they may leave.
�e Phobia House, on the oth-er hand, is entirely indoors and is completely tour guided.
“We take through tours of ap-proximately 13 people at a time and we have three tour guides, so we can have one at the beginning, one at the middle, and one at the end so we can usually go through and take in a new tour about every ten minutes,” said Laura Gerard, one of the owners of the Phobia House.
Haunted KalamazooBy Sam StachurskiSta� Reporter
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