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"Something Wicked" – Sword of Damocles…

Sunday, November 9, 2025
Something Wicked – Sword of Damocles…

“Sword of Damocles” number is from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, but the phrase has a well known meaning – if unfamiliar, look it up. Makes it a lot more interesting. The number starts off with Jasper, Amy and Jess singing, during which it turns into...

"Something Wicked" – Dark Lady…

Friday, November 7, 2025
Something Wicked – Dark Lady…

By now it’s obvious that I’m putting these together by musical number, as listed in the program – I’ll include that program in the pdf eBook at the end of all this (along with some not-shown images). In a Rogue Swan vaudeville, a lot of the number overlap,...

"Something Wicked" – Providence…

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Something Wicked – Providence…

Three of the images in this posting are share an obvious difference from others to this point. They reveal the distracting front-stage lights and speaker feedback boxes on the front of the Star Centre stage. While the eye-brain combination learns quickly...

"Something Wicked" – Beetlejuice and a couple of background shots…

Monday, November 3, 2025
Something Wicked – Beetlejuice and a couple of background shots…

Talk about some tricky selecting in Photoshop, wow. The material was that they used for spider web, gauze, whatever, had to be left out of pretty much all adjustments – every inch. Even though we followed through rehearsals, working towards being familiar...

"Something Wicked" – Lilli, you didn't get away with it…

Saturday, November 1, 2025
Something Wicked – Lilli, you didn't get away with it…

Lilli, Something Wicked’s Co-Director and cast member, is always right there to give me a list, taken from posted color jpegs, of exposures she considers important to work up. The four images here, in my opinion one of the best sequences in the show, never...

"Something Wicked"

Sword of Damocles

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