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Daylight come and me wan' go home
The Con Suite at Demicon had a nice assortment of healthy and junk food. A touch I liked was the bar-style popcorn machine... an easy way to have a hot snack cheaply. I mentioned the drinks; one drink conspicuously absent was bottled water, which has become a staple at our Southern California conventions at least. And I've noticed, at every party I've thrown, that more bottles of water get used up than cans of soda -- all flavors of soda combined, so I'm surprised that con suites everywhere haven't started stocking it.
There was a nifty concert Saturday night. Emma Bull was one of the gohs, so there was a Flash Girls reunion. In fact it was a combination of Flash Girls, Cats Laughing (well, 3/5 of the group, anyway), and Folk Underground, and the six of them called themselves Amalgum. They had a lot of fun playing together. They ran a bit late... they needed to clear out of the room in time for the Trans-Iowa Canal Company late-night show, "TICC After Dark 3: Moulin Smooth."
TICC performed two shows at Demicon this year, "Fnord of the Rings" and this one. This one had a start time listed of 12:30 (half past midnight) and was an adults-only show. Basically it was a strung-together assemblage of comedy sketches, with a few Moulin Rouge parody bits thrown in. That is, they had the Tango de Roxanne (with different matched couples dancing - two Klingons, two vampires, etc.), they had a humorous "can-can dancers vs. Raccoon Riverdance" where the men and the women had different ideas for the grand finale, and then of course they had the grand finale where they did the "Lady Marmalade" number from the original.
The TICC casts had 24 to 30 people (fewer people stayed up to participate in the late-night show), and most of them were on the committee or at least staff-level. So one of TICC's great strengths is the strong staff involvement. Another small thing that helps the TICC shows a little is the "Overdressers Anonymous" members, who all have formal gowns or tuxes in their closet -- so if they write a show that calls for formalwear, they don't have to scramble to obtain them. But apart from ease-of-access to black tie and white tie, the costuming was weak; the can-can skirts were just simple skirts (there's a technical term for the sheer white skirts they had but it escapes me) or petticoats that they swished back and forth. So they spent their time before the convention writing and rehearsing (and preparing for the con itself, and so forth), not making elaborate costumes like some people I could mention.
More later.
There was a nifty concert Saturday night. Emma Bull was one of the gohs, so there was a Flash Girls reunion. In fact it was a combination of Flash Girls, Cats Laughing (well, 3/5 of the group, anyway), and Folk Underground, and the six of them called themselves Amalgum. They had a lot of fun playing together. They ran a bit late... they needed to clear out of the room in time for the Trans-Iowa Canal Company late-night show, "TICC After Dark 3: Moulin Smooth."
TICC performed two shows at Demicon this year, "Fnord of the Rings" and this one. This one had a start time listed of 12:30 (half past midnight) and was an adults-only show. Basically it was a strung-together assemblage of comedy sketches, with a few Moulin Rouge parody bits thrown in. That is, they had the Tango de Roxanne (with different matched couples dancing - two Klingons, two vampires, etc.), they had a humorous "can-can dancers vs. Raccoon Riverdance" where the men and the women had different ideas for the grand finale, and then of course they had the grand finale where they did the "Lady Marmalade" number from the original.
The TICC casts had 24 to 30 people (fewer people stayed up to participate in the late-night show), and most of them were on the committee or at least staff-level. So one of TICC's great strengths is the strong staff involvement. Another small thing that helps the TICC shows a little is the "Overdressers Anonymous" members, who all have formal gowns or tuxes in their closet -- so if they write a show that calls for formalwear, they don't have to scramble to obtain them. But apart from ease-of-access to black tie and white tie, the costuming was weak; the can-can skirts were just simple skirts (there's a technical term for the sheer white skirts they had but it escapes me) or petticoats that they swished back and forth. So they spent their time before the convention writing and rehearsing (and preparing for the con itself, and so forth), not making elaborate costumes like some people I could mention.
More later.