For all those who are interested, here's a blow by blow (no pun intended!) of the matine high jinx, as posted on timewarp by Kev....i repeat, Kev has written this all up, not me!...
When a long run or tour finishes the case/crew usually throw in a few in jokes or new stuff to make them laff knowing its the end of the production.
A running joke of a rubber chicken was used throughout the show!
Heres a run down of all the jokes that went on:
Science Fiction, Claire started to sing unawere that the two girl and two boy phantoms had followed her onto the stage and were singing back vocals either side of the stage. She carrying on singing with the giggles.
Wedding Scene: Swing Phanton Andy, came of stage without his phantom wig.
Damn it Janet: Phantoms going over the top with facial expressions trying to make Haley laugh. Lauren was waiting to catch the bouqet but Haley then threw it across the other side of the stage, leaving Lauren with nothing to catch.
Car Scene The crew has fixed two "L" driver plates to the car, flashing pink furry windscreme wipers and a Yellow rubber chicken to the car. Instead of popping one balloon, Lauren popped all of them in a frenzy and tons of smoke (Dry Ice) blew out of the side of the car choking everyone
Into theres a Light: The boy Phantoms produced two Black Umbrellas and the girls prodcued two large Rainbow coloured umberellas. As Haley and Richard were trying to sing they forced them to hold the umbrellas. Erins Umbrella blew inside out which corpsed everyone.
Door scene: The creaking of the door carried on much longer than usual as everyone was trying to do their lines.
Sweet T: The doors opened and David started singing, but the rubber chicken was popping down above his head. He didnt notice it and couldnt work out why the cast were laughing. He finally reliased and gave one almighty "HA!" laugh and carried on.
Brad and Janet undress: At Sarahs "Some people would give their right arm for the prividge" line, the castle doors opened and the crew threw Eddies severed arm prop into her arms.
Creation scene: Riff Raff had the Rubber chicken in the bascket on the bycyle. When Brad opened the Box, Stuart was inside it with Serigo and was spraying Sergio with Gold glitter make up. He did a pretend Oops Ive been caught look to David and ran offstage.
Instead of Whipping Matt with the whip David used the Rubber chicken!
After Sword of Damocleas: Serigio had been over made up with gold make up and huge gold glitter lipstick: David said "You are the result of a Bad Drag queens attempt to make a man.
The red bulb in the Lampstand had been changed to blue.
After Eddies Death: A green Gel was used to represent the Blood not red. When David burst throught the door after killing Nathan, the rest of the cast hid round the side of the box so David thought he was alone on stage!
"Where is everybody? Was it something I said???"
Make you a man Reprise: Haley sang I'm a muscle fan and jumped on David.
David and Sergio walk arm in arm to the music of the Wedding March, all of the cast linked arms in couples and followed behind them. Everyone posed by the box and Phantom Andy ran on and took their picture with a camera.
Janet Bedroom scene, the rubber chicken popped up in the bed next to Haley, and she adlibbed "You didnt tell me this was a thresome"
David kicked the chicken under the covers and it dashed off!
Brad Bedroom scene: David had the old blonde Janet wig on thoughout the scene, flicking it back over his shoulders like Miss Piggy.
David also "Lay on top" of Richard raised his arms and said "look what I can do!" so it seemed he was "levitating" in the bed above Richard.
There was a bit more under the sheets foreplay from David on both occassions!
Toucha Touch me: Phantoms Kevin and Stuart sat on the hospital trolly pretending to mime bitching about Janet at the start of the scene. Offstage, while Haley and Sergio were doing their lines a member of the stage crew had stripped off down to a pair of tight white Aussiebum undies and was satnding in the wings trying to made them laugh. Serigo kept kissing Haley while she was trying to sing! At the end of the sing Serigo jumped on top of Haley while she was on thr trolly.
Once in a While: As Richard was singing, Phantoms Kevin and Stuart stood onstage with paper hankies weeping. Richard turned round and Stuart went over and gave him a hanky and Richard wiped his eyes with it.
Master we have a visior: instead of using the Dr Scott shadow puppet, Matt used the rubber chicken! Daid stared laffin and said
"I think I can see a theme here!"
MAke this a social occasion: Erin dropped franks ring and scarf on the floor on purpose so she had to bend down and pick it up.
On he way down she got a bit too close to davids crotch!
Eddies Teddy Scene: As the scene opened Phantoms Kevin and stuart
were sat on the fire place legs crossed smoking like two old queens, miming gossiping about the cast again! David corpsed at this.
The WHite owl had been replaced with a picture of Matt and Andy? in a frame.
On the drinks tray as well as cocktail glass Claire had a large Pryamid of Ferrero Rocets which she handed out to all the cast who ate them throughout the scene!
Brad Janet Dr Scott: All the cast had mouthfulls of choclate, but Haley had Stuffed LOADS into her mouth and coudnt speak for spitting them everywere.
NAthan : I knew he was in with a bad crowd but it was worse than I imagined... The audience shouted "Actors" and the cast all turned tot eh audience and shouted back "FANS!"
Frank: Oh Rocky Oh Rocky!: Serigo calmly replied "What?"
And corpsed David again. He stopped the show and said "Right can we all focus here!"
Sarah did her "Dig ya later" line and left the stage, David paused and said "Its not easy having a good time" and Sarah ran screaming like a looney tunes across the back of the stage! David "and my children turn on me" got a huge laff casue of what Sarah had just done.
Floorshow: David was on the moon and someone had fixed the chicken to it. He sang up to "Cause I wanted to be dressed," paused looked to the crowd and beckoned with his hands as if top say "Come on, heres the first and last time I'll let you say it" and all the regular fans shouted the now defunct AP line: "Like a chicken".
David then started to move his head with ticks like a chicken, twitchin and pecking, then sloly flapping his arms and then continued singing the song but with clucking the lyrics not words!
Matt: you are to remain here in spirit amyway, all the cast apart from David ran off stage screaming. Leaving Matt and David onstage.
Columbia gets shot: David Placed Sarah slowly onto the floor and started to move away. At the last minute Srah cam back to life and grabbed Davids arms and screamed into Davids face. He Sh*t himself fell onto his arse and everyone started laffing!!!! "You Bitch!" He laughed, "Somebody kill her" and started to pretend to throttle Sarah. Matt had to help him up before he could shoot him.
When David and Sergio evenually got shot, Haley and Richard jump on top of them like a "piley-on". Squashing down them.
Super Heros: Haley was kneeling on the floor, and they crew made sure they used that much dry ice that you couldnt see her!
At the End Haley and Richard started snogging and Richard carried her off still kissing.
Science fiction reprise: The chicken had been fixed to Sarahs brush as she seeped the stage and she rubbed the chicken suggestively as she sweeped up.
At the End, after taking the bows, David stopped the music and said to the audience: "I guess we'd better explain something here. At the end of a long run its tradition to at the last matinee of the show for the cast and crew to erm, try things out in the show that due to their professionalism they couldnt do during the production. So you may have seem a few things here today not normallit in the show. But we had a blast and thank you for letting us have so much fun this afternoon. So why dont you all come back tonight and see how the show should be done"
Then as David went to start the Timewarp reprise, Richard O'Brien walked on gave him a big hug and kiss and walked back offstage.
David obviously didnt know he was going to come on and said "Hang on the reason we are all here Mr Richard O'Brien."
Richard took a bow and left, they timewarped and that was that.
thanks for you detailed matinee show report