Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but just noticed my local Odeon has scheduled a week of 8pm singalong screenings for Mamma Mia!
Can't remember these - except for Rocky Horror Show.
Wondering how popular these are in the US ... or maybe it's the best way to counter complaints from normal movie-goers that members of the audience were singing along during normal showings.
I reckon that would probably be my worst nightmare. I get Rocky Horror, but this? Oy Vey! The people on screen can hardly carry a tune in a wheelbarrow, heavens knows what the audience would sound like!
(I guess I was wrong and that episode from Will and Grace when they go to a singalong for The Sound of Music wasn't some strange fictional idea out of the writer's heads.)
Yeah, they have them at the Prince Charles Cinema all the time, and apparently all over. At the P.C.C. they are presumably very popular, as they cost �14 as opposed to its normal �1.50 to �5.
I edited a book for which MST3K's Kevin Murphy went to a movie each day for a year and reported back. One night, he [a heavy-set bearded chap] dressed in a nun's habit and attended a London singalong SOM performance. I hasten to add that Kevin happens to be a straight man, but he says it was all great fun. That's how I know the singalong SOM has been around for years and years.
Singalong screenings?
Posted - 08/23/2008 : 12:05:36
