If you'd like to get your Halloween off to a flying start, check out “Have a Vampure Halloween”, the Vampire theme show playing Friday nights though the end of October at The Richmond Shepard Theatre. A wide assortment of horrors have been explored on Halloween but Sarah Palin? That’s the concept, when after President Obama’s untimely demise, the former Alaskan Governor and liberal foil takes over and sends the world’s vampires to rehab in a misguided attempt to cure them of their blood sucking ways. A world without vampires? Really, Ms. Palin!
The evening starts with some free drinks as the cast roams through the crowd, improvising to their black heart’s content! I found the lack of red wine in the complimentary drink selection a bit odd considering the subject matter but who am I to look a gift horse in the fang? After you're seated, the cast continues to stalk the theatre, eliciting lots of audience involvement. This was the first time I've danced with a dead girl without music, at least since college.
Soon the show begins in earnest with the living taking quite a licking at the hands of the performers who were well cast by its stars and creators, Mary Ann Hedderson and L.J. Regine. I especially liked the vampire chick in the leopard pants with the heavy Brooklyn accent, a kind of My Cousin Vinny meets Nosferatu. Do politics and vampires make strange bedfellows? Perhaps, but most people think politicians suck anyway so what the hell!
The Richmond Shepard Theatre is located at 309 East 26th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues. Show time is 10:45. For more info check out the show's website: vampirerehab.blogspot.com and by the way, Happy Halloween!
