Hey Mickey!
Jul. 28th, 2009 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jainaWell, I've been pretty thoroughly beaten to the punch on posting this-- I can't access LJ, Facebook, or YouTube at work-- so please forgive me if this is the billionth time this has shown up on your flist today. But I have the video for our Comic-Con skit!
I give to you-- Bring It On: Rock the Mouse!
Whew.
Full cast:
Tinkerbell = Victoria
Hercules = Alex
Aladdin = Mike
Jasmine = Steph
Belle = Nichoel
Mulan = Breanna
Cinderella = Danica
Sleeping Beauty = Amy
Hook = Kent
Ursula = Nicole
Cruella = Corli
Jafar = Rogue
Evil Queen = Tree
Maleficent = Caitlin
Queen of Hearts = Rachel
Mickey = Sean
Stage ninjas = Bryan, Jen, and John (my dad)
Pictures first!
Full costume:
Cheer costumes:
Soooo, yeah. I've been wanting to do a cheerleading skit for awhile now, but couldn't ever find the right fandom to do it in. I knew I wanted to do something in the vein of Bring It On, with two rival cheerleading squads. About a year and a half ago, Corli and I were brainstorming via email, and we hit on doing it with Disney heroes and villains, which would let us use the song "Hey Mickey" (which has cheerleaders in the music video, if you've never seen it) and have it be extra-funny. Plus, we could incorporate the quick-change idea I'd also been wanting to do, and have the characters change from full costume to cheer outfits mid-skit.
So we started recruiting and trying to put the skit together for SDCC 2008, but we just couldn't make it work. I wanted at least a dozen characters, but we couldn't seem to get more than ten, people had to drop out, and it was getting later and later and we weren't going to be able to do it *right,* and if we were going to do it, I wanted to do a damn good job. So we pushed it off till 2009, and we did Corli's Hairspray idea instead. Which was awesome.
Then, this January, we picked the idea back up and started shaping it further. We abandoned our original idea of having all "matching" heroes and villains from the same movie, which allowed us more freedom in picking costumes. Rogue came up with the idea of structuring the skit as a trailer for Bring It On 5. We recruited even more people, conning our Disney-obsessed friends into joining and linking up with part of the Van Hellsing/Dancing With Celebrities group, and wound up with 15 total.
Then we decided we needed a Mickey Mouse, and I *really* conned my dad into agreeing to make the head. Because my dad, as MTG people know very well, can do pretty much anything, given enough time. (Emperor's Throne anyone?) My brother agreed to be Mickey because it meant he could be involved but wouldn't have to actually show his face. So now we were 16-- three in the Bay Area, two in Arizona, one in Pennsylvania, and the other 10 in SoCal.
We hammered the skit out by early spring and Corli started putting together the audio. I choreographed the first half of the skit and made tutorial videos for everyone. We set our first SoCal rehearsal for a Saturday in mid-May, and we practiced the first half of the number, up through the costume strip. I did more choreography and made more videos. We had an almost-full rehearsal in mid-June, with everyone but Sean and two of the NorCal people. It lasted 8 hours. No, I don't know how I convinced them to do it either.
July arrived, and people started frantically working on their costumes because they realized they weren't going fast enough. (Except Cordelia, who's always done early.) I started sleeping less than five hours a night. We recruited Jen and Bryan as stage ninjas. Dad sent near-daily progress reports on Mickey's head, which looked amazing. Mom got in the act and helped cover Mickey with fabric. Then Dad made Mickey's shoes. Then he shipped Mickey, and we entrusted him to the United Parcel Service. Scary as all hell.
And then suddenly Comic-Con was almost here and there was still a ridiculous amount of work left to do. Dad and Sean arrived late Sunday and, because I asked, spent their entire week building the frame that would hold our Disney castle flag securely and allow us to raise the flag on command. Said frame has been named Melissa and is now required to be used in all future skits. We had our first rehearsal with all of us on Friday night at Nicole, Danica, and Kent's hotel. It went surprisingly well, actually. And then Saturday was Masquerade, and we had another rehearsal for an hour before our fifteen-minute slot on the practice stage, and then we all got dressed and sat in the green room and then lined up backstage for FOREVER.
Then we went onstage, and it went by in maybe two and a half seconds instead of minutes, and the roar that went up when Mickey was revealed was the best thing I've ever heard. And we went back offstage and gathered up our costumes and took pictures and went back to the green room to sit *forever* until the awards were announced. They didn't call our number on the first list (the company prizes) and we waited for another eternity until they came back with the second list and THEY CALLED OUR NUMBER and I just kept repeating, "Oh thank God we won something," because at least I hadn't wasted all these hours and days and weeks of nineteen peoples' lives.
So that's what went into this skit. For two and a half minutes on stage.
It was worth every second.
I give to you-- Bring It On: Rock the Mouse!
Whew.
Full cast:
Tinkerbell = Victoria
Hercules = Alex
Aladdin = Mike
Jasmine = Steph
Belle = Nichoel
Mulan = Breanna
Cinderella = Danica
Sleeping Beauty = Amy
Hook = Kent
Ursula = Nicole
Cruella = Corli
Jafar = Rogue
Evil Queen = Tree
Maleficent = Caitlin
Queen of Hearts = Rachel
Mickey = Sean
Stage ninjas = Bryan, Jen, and John (my dad)
Pictures first!
Full costume:
Cheer costumes:
Soooo, yeah. I've been wanting to do a cheerleading skit for awhile now, but couldn't ever find the right fandom to do it in. I knew I wanted to do something in the vein of Bring It On, with two rival cheerleading squads. About a year and a half ago, Corli and I were brainstorming via email, and we hit on doing it with Disney heroes and villains, which would let us use the song "Hey Mickey" (which has cheerleaders in the music video, if you've never seen it) and have it be extra-funny. Plus, we could incorporate the quick-change idea I'd also been wanting to do, and have the characters change from full costume to cheer outfits mid-skit.
So we started recruiting and trying to put the skit together for SDCC 2008, but we just couldn't make it work. I wanted at least a dozen characters, but we couldn't seem to get more than ten, people had to drop out, and it was getting later and later and we weren't going to be able to do it *right,* and if we were going to do it, I wanted to do a damn good job. So we pushed it off till 2009, and we did Corli's Hairspray idea instead. Which was awesome.
Then, this January, we picked the idea back up and started shaping it further. We abandoned our original idea of having all "matching" heroes and villains from the same movie, which allowed us more freedom in picking costumes. Rogue came up with the idea of structuring the skit as a trailer for Bring It On 5. We recruited even more people, conning our Disney-obsessed friends into joining and linking up with part of the Van Hellsing/Dancing With Celebrities group, and wound up with 15 total.
Then we decided we needed a Mickey Mouse, and I *really* conned my dad into agreeing to make the head. Because my dad, as MTG people know very well, can do pretty much anything, given enough time. (Emperor's Throne anyone?) My brother agreed to be Mickey because it meant he could be involved but wouldn't have to actually show his face. So now we were 16-- three in the Bay Area, two in Arizona, one in Pennsylvania, and the other 10 in SoCal.
We hammered the skit out by early spring and Corli started putting together the audio. I choreographed the first half of the skit and made tutorial videos for everyone. We set our first SoCal rehearsal for a Saturday in mid-May, and we practiced the first half of the number, up through the costume strip. I did more choreography and made more videos. We had an almost-full rehearsal in mid-June, with everyone but Sean and two of the NorCal people. It lasted 8 hours. No, I don't know how I convinced them to do it either.
July arrived, and people started frantically working on their costumes because they realized they weren't going fast enough. (Except Cordelia, who's always done early.) I started sleeping less than five hours a night. We recruited Jen and Bryan as stage ninjas. Dad sent near-daily progress reports on Mickey's head, which looked amazing. Mom got in the act and helped cover Mickey with fabric. Then Dad made Mickey's shoes. Then he shipped Mickey, and we entrusted him to the United Parcel Service. Scary as all hell.
And then suddenly Comic-Con was almost here and there was still a ridiculous amount of work left to do. Dad and Sean arrived late Sunday and, because I asked, spent their entire week building the frame that would hold our Disney castle flag securely and allow us to raise the flag on command. Said frame has been named Melissa and is now required to be used in all future skits. We had our first rehearsal with all of us on Friday night at Nicole, Danica, and Kent's hotel. It went surprisingly well, actually. And then Saturday was Masquerade, and we had another rehearsal for an hour before our fifteen-minute slot on the practice stage, and then we all got dressed and sat in the green room and then lined up backstage for FOREVER.
Then we went onstage, and it went by in maybe two and a half seconds instead of minutes, and the roar that went up when Mickey was revealed was the best thing I've ever heard. And we went back offstage and gathered up our costumes and took pictures and went back to the green room to sit *forever* until the awards were announced. They didn't call our number on the first list (the company prizes) and we waited for another eternity until they came back with the second list and THEY CALLED OUR NUMBER and I just kept repeating, "Oh thank God we won something," because at least I hadn't wasted all these hours and days and weeks of nineteen peoples' lives.
So that's what went into this skit. For two and a half minutes on stage.
It was worth every second.
