Comments on: Phoenix Comicon 2011 – The Rocky Horror Debacle

By: A

Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:51:00 +0000

This guy Matt was recently arrested for possesion of child porn.

By: Rob Morris

Rob Morris — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:38:00 +0000

I tried to date myself, once. Threw my back out for 3 days.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:51:00 +0000

It’s worth mentioning that during the first 10 minutes or so of the preshow, we actually made the comment to each other that the guy on the mic was good with the crowd. 45 minutes later with the same guy still bellowing into the mic, that first impression had done a 180.

I’m sure there’s definite appeal to commanding a crowd like that. You chant something, the crowd chants back. They cheer, they laugh – it’s gotta be addictive. But when it goes that long, you’ve turned an experience that’s supposed to be about everyone into 53 minutes where you play ringmaster.

There are only so many times you can ask the crowd to chant or raise their hands or shout something back before the preshow experience has lost its original purpose. The point is that it was overlong and boring and repetitive, three things that RHPS shouldn’t be.

The audience is there to see more than the preshow. The cast is supposed to be an enhancement to the experience, not an obstacle. Get on with the show. It’s that simple.

By: Rob Morris

Rob Morris — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 06:06:00 +0000

I think you missed the part in the article where I said the show was on our to-do list. We went in to watch it and planned on reporting on the show as a whole…in its entirety. By the time the guy was finished gassing, though, we’d completely lost our taste for seeing it. We were in the bar, in the back of the theater room, for 30 minutes before we left to get photos of the rave, in hopes that the show would have started by the time we got back. We were at the rave for another 15 mins and then came back to the guy still talking.

At that point, we were done. We were tired and bored and more than a little frustrated so we snapped some pics and left.

I think you may have also missed in the comments where I said that we weren’t the only people who left.

And why did I “waste my time” writing a blog on it? Well, as you can see from the flood of comments, it wasn’t a waste of time. Also, I wrote about it because that was the point. To write about the events of phoenix comicon. That’s why we were wearing press badges. That’s why we will be wearing press badges at all of the conventions we go to.

Why would we waste our time getting our credentials checked, our applications processed, or badges issued, our rooms reserved, our travel plans laid out, etc…if we’re not going to report on the event?

Sorry, John, but you missed the point.

By: Rob Morris

Rob Morris — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:24:00 +0000

Nah…More like a guy wearing a press badge wrote an opinion piece about a guy wagging his chin for 53 minutes and then…this…

But then again, what do you know?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:44:00 +0000

I was a convention last week doing the preshow. We also had rules. We also had virgins. Preshow was done in about a half hour. This is also the same for our usual shows, no matter who does the preshow, and with 30-40 virgins. If your preshow is nearing an hour, YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG. Rewrite your script. Look at things that are taking up time. An hour is way beyond acceptable.

By: Christopher McCullough

Christopher McCullough — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:59:00 +0000

So as far as I can tell from the comments and stories…a bunch of aging sci-fi geeks who would never DARE set foot in a RHPS show outside of a ‘CON gets their panties in a wad over the length of preshow activities when they should be doing something more adult like kissing a girl for once…and in berating said instance gives all the disgruntled EX-cast members a chance to flock like ants to a picnic to help fan the flames in both anonymous and personalized roles.

Yup…another day in Arizona Paradise.

600 people saw that show, btw.

But then again…what do I know?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:57:00 +0000

SO, because they’re not at home they’re not supposed to enforece their rules? what planet are you from?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:43:00 +0000

SHE? wow. someone’s dating themselves..

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:37:00 +0000

Out of all the Rocky shows that I’ve worked, this one was by far the best! While I filmed the first half of it, I was standing right in the middle behind the audio booth. Right in the middle of all 600 people who attended. The crowd’s cheers were literally hurting my ears. At one time I had to cover them. The energy was BIG and it was diffinately there.

The pre-show was good even though it was a bit long due to tech difficulties with the projector. The cast did a great job as usual as well as the lighting crew. The guy who played Frank was outstanding! I thought it was a bad idea for him to be debuting his first show at comic con. I was wrong. His performance left me choked up and almost tearing.

I am a member of the cast and if anyone knows me, they know that I am a fair person. I am not writing this to defend anyone. This is how I felt about the show.

It just gets me to see someone write a small blog on our show that they maybe attened for 20-30mins? He went to the bar and checked out a rave during pre-show and then left entirely before the intial show started. If he didn’t want to waste his time watching the show, than why did he waste his time writing a blog on it?