This is a haunted house project that Miles and I will be working on this year, for the halloween season.
Façade
The building’s
architecture is Victorian style. Boarded up windows with tattered shutters.
Overgrown vines cling to the wall.
Lobby
As the patrons
enter the building, they will notice that it is very ornate and brightly lit.
Posters and portraits of the actors and coming attractions, which guests will
encounter in their visit, are lined up in walls. An usher appears in front of
the guests and tells them about the theater’s history.
“Welcome to Mangrove Theater. My name is ______________, let
me tell you the Theater’s dark and tragic history. Built and opened in 1899 by world-renowned magician
Balthazar Xanthos and his wife Isobel Ambrosia, a famous actress. This
vaudeville theater was a sanctuary for talented performers and parrots of the
arts. However, 1914. In which Mrs. Ambrosia fell ill during her recent
performances. Balthazar was determined return his beloved from the grave. So he
spent two years. There have been many rumors that Mr. Xanthos had actually
dabbled in black magic. It was on that dreadful night in October 1st
1915, when one of his magic tricks had gone weary, which caused a rift between
life and death. Soon the performers, staff members and 80 patrons were never
seen again. The theater was then closed to the public. Over the past two
centuries, there have been reports of ethereal music and songs coming from
inside the abandon theater and spectral apparitions can be seen in the windows
and grounds.”
After the usher finishes he/she’s introduction, they will
usher the guests into the door that leads them into a back stage corridor.
Back Stage Corridor
There are doors on both sides. Guests will hear shouting,
crying, banging and whispers. One of the doors opens up to revel a hanged
corpse. At the end of the hallway is another usher with a flashlight in his
hands. He walks slowly and vanishes, only to reappear in front of us.
Usher: What are you doing here? You’re not supposed to be
here! Come follow me, this way.
Dressing
Room
Entering
in one of the actor’s dressing room they can smell the sent of dead roses. They
see a woman in her vanity table.
She
turns around and revels her disfigured visage. Other scareactors
will pop out from the closet and a changing screen.
Prop Room
The prop room is littered with
portraits, statues, trunks, crates, antiques, and furniture. A suit of armor on
the left comes to life and brandishes it’s weapon. A demonic gargoyle comes to
life. A scare actor will pop up from behind an open box. A manikin comes to life, as a demented character sews up various
cloths.
Séance
Parlor
Guests
will enterer a room furnished with arcane artifacts, spell books and a table on
the center, with a crystal ball.
Madame
Methuselah: Welcome, I am Madame Methuselah. You’ve come to make contact from
the world beyond the veil? You’ve come to the right place. Please sit and join
hands. Tonight we call forth the spirits of those who have passed this life.
Once
the guests are seated, they feel a cold gust of wind passing through them. The
table vibrates, the crystal ball changes colors from white, red and black, and
the lights flicker on and off.
Madame
Methuselah: I can sense their presences. If you are here with us, give us a
sign.
Suddenly,
a manifestation appears from behind Madame Methuselah and then throttles her to
death. But is in fact taking over her body, she is possessed.
Madame
Methuselah: Leave this place, now!
While
the guests start to leave, ghostly apparitions manifest before their eyes and
chase them out of the room.
The Phantom of the Opera
Guests will enter the underground sanctuary of the Opera
Ghost. It is decorated with large candelabras, a painting of Christine, a few
furnishings and a coffin shaped bed. Erick, the phantom, can be seen playing a
haunting yet somber melody on an organ or harpsichord. He is aware of the
intruders and turns around. He is not the romantic figure Andrew Lloyd Webb
portrayed him; his mask covers his entire face. As Christine moves closely to Erick, she removes his mask to
reveal his deformed visage of a death's head. Christine faints as Erick turns around
to show the patrons to reveal his deformed visage of a death.face.
Erick: Look at
me, feast you’re eyes on this accursed ugliness. Do I frighten you, perhaps this another mask. Come tear it off. No, I am built of death from death to foot. For I am corpse who walks among the living. Once you have seen my face,
you are mine forever.
He resumes playing his organ or harpsichord with a shrill
shrieking sound. This gives guests the opportunity to escape.
Jekyll and Hyde
Guests find
themselves in the dark and foggy streets of Victorian London. The first
character they will encounter is a lady of the night.
With that a man with long unkempt hair and evening cloths
comes out of an adjacent alleyway.
He grabs her by the hair and puts her into the darkness. The guests hear
her shriek and all becomes silent.
A man dressed exactly like the murderer, but he has a
ponytail and blood stained vest and coat. He is horrified by the actions.
Dr Jekyll: Oh God, what have I done? Listen to me; you must
not tell the authorities what you have seen, flee and don’t look back.
The man starts to writhe in pain. He transforms into the
same man we’ve seen before.
Mr. Hyde: You
can run, but you can’t hide from Mr. Hyde.
Sweeney Todd
Guests will first enter Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop. They will be
introduced to Mrs. Lovett herself.
Mrs. Lovett: Customers! Welcome to my Pie Shop; I am Mrs. Margret Lovett. But you can call me Marge. Would you like a sample one of my pies? We've got Shepard pie, Baker, Butcher, Tinker, Tailor, and Adam's Appel Pie . The special on the menu is called Fresh Meat.
Now before you can dig in, you need a visit to Mr. T’s tonsorial parlor. He’ll
polish you off, just like the rest.
After they leave the pie shop, visitors will enter the
barbershop. They see a man in Victorian clothing entering the shop.
Sweeney Todd: Welcome, I am at your service. What may I do
for you, sir? A sooth skin massage,
stylish trimmings of the hair, or a close shave.
Gentleman: A shave, if you please sir.
Once the gentleman takes his seat. He slits the throat of
his victim and pulls a lever that sends the corpse down into the cellars.
Sweeney Todd: There you see, no one’s in the chair- come on,
come on. I want you bleeders bleeding. Come again and visit me at Fleet Street.
Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Guests will enter a medieval gothic hallway decorated with
banners and torches. There they will encounter the lady Ophelia with a bouquet
of flowers in her hand. She is signing a song of death.
Ophelia: He is dead and gone, lady. He is dead and gone.
White as his shroud as the mountain snow, larded with sweet flowers. Which
bewept to the grave did go with true love showers.
Ophelia become aware of the visitors. She hands them a
flower.
Ophelia: There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. There’s
fennel for you and columbines. There’s a daisy. I would give you some violets,
but they withered all when my father died. They say he made a good end. Make
hast, the sisters three await thy presence.
She escorts the guests to another room, with a huge
cauldron. There are three witches standing around it, putting strange ingredients
in the cauldron. The first witch is a young lady, the second witch is a
middle-aged woman, and the third witch is an old crone.
All Witches: Round about the caldron go. In the poisoned
entrails throw. Sweltered venom, sleeping got, boil you first in the charmed
pot. Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Witch #1: Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and
bake.
Witch #2: Eye
of newt and toe of frog. Wool of bat and tongue of dog.
Witch #3: Adder’s fork and blind worm’s sting. Lizards leg
and owlet’s wing.
Witch #1: Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch#2: witches’ mummy, maw and gulf of ravened salt sea
shark,
Witch#3: Root of hemlock dug in the dark.
Witch #1: Liver of blaspheming Jew, gall of goat and slips
of yew.
All Witches: Cool it with a baboon’s blood. Then the charm
is firm and good.
One of the witches’ scoop up the liquid with a wooden spoon
and pours it into a small glass bottle. She hands it to the guests.
Puppet Show: Once guests enter the puppet show, the stage is
filled with human sized marionettes. They perform a little dance. One of the
marionettes will eventually loose its strings and fall down to the ground. The
puppet will come to life and chases the guests from the stage.
The Auditorium:
Guests are in the stage with a red curtain in front of
them. In the center of the stage
is a shrouded corpse with a circle surrounding it.
Balthazar Xanthos: Finale, you’ve made. Have you brought the
ingredients? (Which he is
referring to the flowers that Ophelia has given them and the potion that
witches made. The guests will scatter the flowers around the circle and sprinkle
the corpes with the potion.) Quickly, there is no time to explain, you must
stand around the circle.
A curtain opens
up to revel an auditorium with the corpses of theater patrons in Edwardian
fashion.
Balthazar: Beir seo gra amhain ar ais o na mairbh. (Three
times)
No sooner has the spell is cast; the corpse comes back to
life. Which happens to be Isobel. They hear the sounds of applause.
Balthazar: Isobel my love.
Eventually however, the revived Isobel turns against him and
throttles him to death.
This gives the guests an opportunity to escape. The audience
comes to life and chases after the guests. Preventing their escape. An usher helps them escape.
