Welcome to Skeleton Theatre, bringing you "The Death Of Rock" in 2010. If you will pardon my crass commercialism:

We've decided to implement a "Donate" button...largely because every year people try to give us money on Halloween night. Also, there's the fact that it is somewhat expensive to put these shows on. If you choose to help support Skeleton Theatre, Thanks! And now, on to your regularly scheduled Home page.

Four years ago we started out with animatronic skeletons performing movie and song clips. The 2006 show had 11 clips and ran about 20 minutes, with a two minute intermission. Thanks to an article in The Seattle Times, we had about 3000 people attend the show over the two nights we ran it. Quite a crowd, took us by surprise. The skeletons held up though, with the exception of Boney Danza's arm falling off twice - quickly repaired.

In 2007 we had all new clips, and again we ran the show October 31st and November 1st from 6pm to 9pm.

In 2008...oh man, did we get rained out! It's the first time in 12 years of Halloween extravaganzas that we got rain (I know, that in itself was lucky). The rain Wiped. Us. Out.

The biggest issue was the lights. Dave hung a full plot and wrote the show in our cue software the night before Halloween. Then it rained. All of our dimmers went out and worse, all of the lights were so soaked that anytime we tried to plug them in directly with new cords we'd trip the breakers. Finally, after the show was already supposed to start, he hung three new, dry, lights, and plugged them into the wall by hand all night when it was time to light something up.

The rain also played havoc with our motion control, completely taking out the two evil pirates for the first night. Just trying to fix things that had been working, and then went bad due to rain, meant that we didn't have time to finish setting up things that would finish off the show. It was...trying.

So, 2009. We'd always planned on doing the pirate show two years in a row, and in 2009 the show ran a LOT BETTER! Big success, big relief. I've made a DVD of the show and...the whole show is online! You can see it on the Shows page.

On to 2010. We'll be back to a stage-in-the-yard this year, but instead of lip-synching to movie clips we'll be following the career of a skeleton rock-n-roll band, BONAPARTE. A bit Spinal Tap-ish, but sans live people. The band will perform some of their hits, and the songs will be interspersed with video clips of "Behind The Music: BONAPARTE".

As a fun treat for those of you who read all the way down the page, here's a clip of outtakes from the 2008 "Pirates" recording session.

You can see some clips from previous years shows on our Shows page. The Build page has pics (and one video) showing how it was all done. People gets you behind the scenes a little more with intros of the people on the Skeleton Crew, and Find Us shows you where to see the show.

Lastly, you can e-mail me (Chris) if you have any questions or comments.