PROGRAMMING:
Here are just some of the things that will be going at M.O.O.N. CON this yearMURDER MYSTERY DINNER THEATRE:
Instead of offering a boring banquet, Friday Night, with the famous "rubber chicken," and a lot of boring speeches, we're offering what is becoming quite popular at these sort of gatherings. An audience participation Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre. Your ticket to the Dinner entitles you to participate, to be asked to play a character in the production that will be going on...AAAARRRRROOOOUUUUUNNNNDDDD you while you eat. Now, you can get a ticket to the dinner, and you can refuse to participate in the play, but you'll be missing at least half the fun.
We don't expect any award winning performances out of anybody. We don't have any awards to give, anyway. Just have fun with it. If you choose to participate, and you get assigned a character, by all means, become that character for the duration of the play. "Ham" it up real good. That's more fun. Nobody's going to be scrutinizing your performance, and you won't be getting "notes" afterward, telling you what you did wrong (you'll just have to wonder).
KLINGON PARTY:
We've invited...no...we've challenged the Klingon of Klingon Assault Group, throughout this area, to attend our Con, and to bring their special brand of fun with them. As an incentive we're scheduling a block of time for a typical, traditional (and very informal) Klingon Party - starting at about 10 p.m. Friday night and running until those Klingons get tired (which could be a very long time). If you've never experienced one of these, or if you're an old hand, or especially if you're a Klingon, but even if you're not but want to learn about them, join our resident Klingon, and others of the Cold Terror Fleet, for our first official Klingon Party.
M.O.O.N. CON'S GOT THE LAST TALENTED AMERICAN COMIC STANDING:
This is something else new. Ever thought tou had talent? Ever thought you were the funniest person in the room? Ever thought you had enough guts to get up in front of a crowd to prove it??
Well, here's your chance. Starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday, those brave enough will be given three minutes on our stage to make everyone else in the room laugh. Our panel of judges will, based on a number of criteria - including audience response, determine the winner of this contest. Sign-up deadline is one p.m. Saturday, the 26th. Sign-up fee is 0 dollars.
POOL PARTY:
Starting at 5 p.m. on Saturday, all attendees of the Con are invited to join us for our first ever Pool Party at the Cedarberry Inn's indoor pool. Proper pool attire will be required, as well as actual paid attendance of the Con, for at least Saturday. We'll have it all to ourselves for that period, so join us.
MASQUERADE:
Saturday, we've scheduled our Grand Masquerade to start about 7:30 p.m. . This is a tradition at most of the better Sci Fi Conventions. It's where you get your chance to really play dress up. Put together a costume, register for the Contest (That's what the Grand Masquerade is...a costume contest), and get up on the stage and compete. Don't worry if you've never competed in a costume contest before. Don't worry if you've never put together a costume before. We'll have classes and levels suitable for every range of costumer. There will be people at this Con who are virtually pros at costuming. That's fine. Don't let them scare you off. They enjoy sharing ideas, and passing along the tricks they've developed or learned over the years, to new costumers, as much as they love showing off what they've done. You won't be competing directly against these pros anyway. We'll have beginner and novice classes, intermediate, and expert, and so on. We'll have different categories of costume, too. We won't make the Space Aliens compete against, say, the fairies...it just wouldn't be fair to the fairies, know what I mean?
We're setting some basic ground rules, though. You can't go out and buy your costume ready-made and enter this contest. You can have it custom-made, if you like (in which case we recommend publicly giving credit to the maker of your costume ...it's just a good idea, and good courtesy). You CAN buy components of the costume, the outfit, if you will, and put them all together to make the whole thing. For example, you can buy a galvanized bucket to modify to be your Robot's head (or your Space Man's helmet), but the Robot should be something you've pretty much designed yourself. If you want to copy something that's already been done, like something Hollywood created for a movie, then you'd better make, have made, or assemble components for this one. You can't go out and buy a copy of a Hollywood movie costume and enter this contest. That's an automatic disqualification. The only place we'll permit completely purchased costumes is as a Hall Costume.
Judges for this contest are being interviewed, auditioned, tried out, weighed, measured, and otherwise selected at this time. Their identities will remain classified-confidential-top-secret until the Grand Masquerade itself. This eliminates the possibility of unscrupulous costumers attempting to influence the judges, or to bribe them (which is completely unfair, 'cause one judge always gets a bigger bribe than another. And, we're not going to put up with the judges whining about that). We thought we might try to get Rick Baker (the Hollywood make-up guy who's inside the King Kong outfit in the new movie) to be one of our judges, but when we asked him he said, "You're who, now??" Suffice to say, we'll have some pretty impartial judges. Meaning they'll be impartial, but maybe not pretty.
We're also, setting a deadline of two hours prior to the Grand Masquerade for signing up for the contest. That's going to be cutting it pretty close for us. But, we thought we wanted to be fair to all the potential costumers. So, if you come on Friday, for the weekend, and you decide Saturday morning that you want to be in our contest, you've got a little bit of time, yet, to sign up. For now, let say, Noon, Saturday would be as late as you would dare sign up. It's a scheduling thing. However, you can sign up for the contest as early as you want to. If you're planning on entering the Grand Masquerade, and you're going to pre-register for the Con, it would be great if you would let us know that you're entering when you pre-register. That way we're sure to have you on the list for the Grand Masquerade. Just give us some basics about your costume presentation. You know, Space Alien or Robot or Squiggly Monster or Spandex Wearing Hero or Jedi Knight or Box of Kleenex, or whatever. And, if you've been doing this a while, let us know, too. That way we won't put you in the novice class. If this will be your first time ever in a costume contest, puhhhhhhleeeeeezzzz tell us. We wouldn't want to put you up against one of the pros. Wouldn't be fair to you.
For complete rules and details about the Grand Masquerade, please see your Program Book that you'll receive upon arrival at the Con.
FILK AROUND THE CLOCK:
For those of you who don't know, "Filking" is a sort of sing-along activity, much like the old "Hootenany" of the '60s. It's a combination of this sing-along, and an irreverant attempt to poke fun at just about everything, by perpetuating some interesting song parodies. It's a FUN time, and everybody is welcome to participate.
If you've ever "filked" before (and who among us hasn't), then, here's your chance to do it again. If you've never "filked" before...shame on you. Get in there and "filk." It's FUN. Our "FilkMeister" will be endeavoring to make if fun for everyone. And, at least, he'll be having fun. If you're not having fun, then you're just not "filking" hard enough.
HALL COSTUME CONTEST:
A lot of us "Play Dress Up" at these conventions, besides the Grand Masquerade Contest, and we walk around for the whole weekend in some of our more ingenious, or our favorite costumes. Some of us "become" the character we are dressed as, even if we made the character up ourselves.
So, we've managed to convince some people, whose identities shall remain a secret, to keep their eyes open for these "Hall Costumes," and to judge them, accordingly, throughout the weekend. Each day, we're going to announce the winners of certain categories and classes of Hall Costume competition for that day. So, if you dress up, there's a chance for you to be a winner.
You're not going to know who these judges are, unless you've been picked to be one of them. And, then, the chances of you knowing who the other judges are, are about the same as the other convention attendees knowing who they are. Sneaky, huh? And, we're going to have some prizes for those who are picked as daily winners. And, if you stick around for the whole weekend, we'll pick some cumulative winners on Sunday, to be announced at Closing Ceremonies.
So, get out your spandex, spray paint your head, and glue some glitter to your eye-lids. This is going to be FUNNNN!!!!
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