Re: Reforms my hairy backside
So my boss asked me to think about some ideas to 'update the look' for one of our Halloween shows, now that Halloween is over and we'll have time to sit down and work our way through stuff at a reasonable pace. The problem?
Well, said show has become practically the centerpiece of the entertainment during our Halloween season. What started out a decade ago as a notion for a 'curtain-warmer act' has become iconic enough that the merchandising department on the park has even had t-shirts made...marketing is using the characters from the show in advertising, and the park's Facebook page has them prominently featured. So, 'updating' their look is kinda like being asked to redesign Frankenstein...no matter what you do or how cool you make it look, people are going to expect it to harken back to Boris Karloff's version of the Monster (I mean, they did an awesome job on Robert DeNiro's makeup...but there are very few people who think of that particular version when you say 'Frankenstein'...)
The show has, in its own way, become a classic. Leave well enough alone, I say...I realize you want to make things look new and shiny...but sometimes that look just isn't as effective. Let them look a like wild and weathered. Not only is it not broke, but it's working incredibly effectively. Don't fix it.