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Show Pageant has scary spooks The three of them were glad they took each other and suggest no one goes alone. "Don't take any little kids and if you do, keep an adult close by," say my kids. "You get a lot of surprises." sur-prises." The first surprise occurs when your friends step into the turnstile at the entrance and disappear. Another is when the rocks begin to fall just over your head. You're a glowing ghost yourself in one room, invited to be "next" inside the Operating Room in another and treated to the guillotine in another. I braved it last year. My children tell me this year is "even belter, mom ! " and I should go. I'm doing the next best thing. I suggest you go. It's for a good cause; Each night until Halloween from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. for $2.50 a ticket. By SHARON MORREY AND COMPANY I chickened out this year, I'll admit it. I did not go through the Pageant of the Arts "Gruesome Gallery" although my children urged me. They went and said I missed the best one they've been to yet. These kids are 14, 11, and 9 and it takes a bit to scare them. The oldest thinks he can handle just about anything. He says it was "scary, all around scary" and "if you're bored and like to be scared out of your wits, this spook alley is for you." A lion statue with a human hand hanging from its bloody mouth is unnerving, especially when the hand moves around. The foot-bridge over the water is creaky and "feels like it's going to fall apart and you'll fall in the water," says my daughter. "Furry things keep grabbing your feet," says the youngest. He leaped right through a window place to escape one aggressive goblin. |
