If you guys think HSM is bad, try HSM2 sometime . . . .

In about the 60's I was involved with shows some what similar, cobbled together & just as popular.
why they were is still a mystery, to me & everyone else?
I worked on these shows like 'Rock with the Cavemen' & other such drivvel. But it did not stop full house attendance, to see the likes of 'Tommy Steele' & others. Who just tacked a show together that had little or any story line or substance - but they cioned in the brass anyway.
I can't say if these shows were like a book or novel, that would not be worth the ink or paper. Because some of the biggest selling paper back books are still the Mills & boons romantic rubbish, writen to a specified formula.
Same with this HSM, while it's tripe, it makes good ecomomical theatre.
so to that end it is like cycling the same old crap push bike with just  different riders.

 

Can anyone tell me what they used for the pie?  Real whipped cream or shaving cream?  I've heard both but I want to find out what it the best for clean up, etc.

I prefer shaving cream, as it dosent go off & stink if bits are left over after clean up. The first you know beyond the smell is moss starts growing in the weirdest of places. Such as the jionts in flats & cloth drapes & equipment.
If you use up chopped old style shaving Styk or spray cans of shaving cream, ensure it is well & truly whipped, say in a domestic blender. This seems to work in getting rid of   the  sting effect.
When I was a kid working back stage for Pantomimes, my first job before each performance was mixing buckets of slosh, by hand. These days you can use an electric drill with a paint mixing attachment, which is much easier & wiil foam up better.
It is easy to clean up & wash out of costumes, even using vegtable dyes for coloured foam. As it is derivded from fats compounds & not soap, the stinking comes from the sodium binder used, but is virtualy deminished with high spead mixing in warm hot water.
It also tends to hold it's foam peaking better than cream, as it is not subject to turning to it's liquid milk state. Also you don't have to keep it in the fridge on hot days, which can promote various milk product nasties, if best food handling practices are not carried out. Because kids being kids will try to taste test the cream at times, which they won't with shaving cream.
You can buy things like spry cans of Crazy Foam from Party & Joke shops, but from experiance they are rubbish & useless. Also fairly exspensive compaired to shaving foam & tend not to last too long outside the spray can.
If stinging is a concern ensure there is a bowl of water with spunges available off stage. Because like when using a smoke effect on stage, invarably people will start coughing at the thought & sight of it, yet not actualy anywhere near it?
I have never experianced any actual effects on the eyes, beyond that of others thinking the shaving foam being soap, which it is not. And it is not taste that bad either

Troy, $2000 to replace the accompaniment CD?  That seems a little silly.  If you were going to steal it, couldn't you have just copied the CD?  I don't really trust MTI's invoicing anyway.  For Godspell they sent 5 extra scripts that weren't cataloged on the invoice and forgot to send the additional Beautiful City that we paid for and they listed as being in there.  Can't wait to return that and see what they say we're missing!