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Click the show flyer above to be taken to the Facebook event page to learn even more about the upcoming screening of I Was A Teenage Werebear and The Rocky Horror Picture Show

First off, I must humbly thank Tim Sullivan for granting the rights to screen I Was A Teenage Werebear from the Chillerama anthology during the upcoming DownHome Decadence Rocky Horror Picture Show performance on June 9, 2012 at the Ro-Na Theater on South 3rd Street in Ironton OH. Second off, I have to thank the Board of Directors of DownHome Decadence for having the faith and confidence in allowing me to have a moment to be somewhat self-indulgent and able to spread the word of Chillerama and Werebears at our show. Lastly, I have to thank my wonderful cast who have the faith to do something no one has done before!

I Was A Teenage Werebear is my return to the director’s chair for shadow casting, as well as a return for me on the performance stage. I want to share with you a little of the insight I had in converting Werebears from the big screen to the big theater. In taking on any new movie to shadow cast, the first thing you must do is focus on the key scenes of the film to set the level of production you are going to do. When DownHome Decadence shadow casted Repo! The Genetic Opera, we determined just how much special effects we wanted to pull off and took into account what special effects we could actually have given the space limitations and clean up requirements of the space we were performing in.

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With I Was A Teenage Werebear, the script is so well written that the musical numbers could almost stand alone. The connecting dialogue is nearly secondary, so we determined that we would eliminate live performance of about 90% of the secondary dialogue and focus on the songs. Second, we looked at the cast – there are a lot of extras in Werebears, and the more people you put on stage, the more difficult the casting gets; therefore, the decision was made to strip down the cast (figuratively for most and literally for some) and key in on the main characters of Ricky, Talon, and Peggy Lou. We wanted to drill in on the love triangle that is no so much a love triangle. As always, we wanted to also look into the comedy, add a touch of making the show interesting for the audience, and allow me the self-indulgency of being part of the world debut Werebears shadow cast, so I cast myself as Coach Tuffman.

The three core performers for the debut performance of I Was A Teenage Werebear consists of a DownHome Decadence new face, Jake Huff; a long time fan favorite, Jared Mitchell; and making her DownHome Decadence on stage performing debut is our Stage Manager Ashleigh Bills.

I will try to keep you all up-to-date with the progress of both I Was A Teenage Werebear, as well as The Rocky Horror Picture Show production all throughout the month right here on The Davey Boy Show dot com!