Welcome to Skeleton Theatre, bringing you an expanded "The Death Of Rock" in 2011! (more tricks and stuff) The show this year runs about 20 minutes and will play continuously from 6pm to 9pm on two nights. The first night is of course Halloween, Monday October 31st, and then we'll run it from 6 to 9 on Tuesday night, November 1st. We're hoping to get in a run-through on Sunday night the 30th at some point...but I'm not making any promises.

And now, 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. Also, there is a "Behind The Scenes" feature on the Build page.

In 2010 we introduced you to BONAPARTE, our all-skeleton band. This year, 2011, we'll see the whole story, the things we didn't finish last year, plus some fun new tricks that were just beyond us last year - read: we ran out of time. Plus, for the first time ever, a Preview clip for next years show! (yes, we do work on them over a year in advance)

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 a few videos 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.