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| Molar Manor will be open Saturday and
Sunday. Bobby Boris Pickett will perform Monster Mash
Saturday only. Illustration/Mary Wenthe/The
Signal | Molar
Manor is a Graveyard Smash
Bobby Boris Pickett will perform Monster Mash
Saturday at haunted collection event.
10/21/2005
Stephen K. Peeples Signal Staff
Writer
The immortal Bobby “Boris” Pickett, who
headlined last year's “Molar Manor — A Haunted Collection”
children's charity fund-raising bash and helped make it a
graveyard smash, has been resurrected for an encore headlining
appearance on the first night of this year's two-night
event.
Pickett, who last year
received the first “Stake of the City” award from then-Mayor
Bob Kellar, will materialize live on the stage in the parking
lot outside the Manor Saturday night, Oct. 22 to perform a
spirited medley of his 1962 hit, “The Monster Mash,”
channeling the voice of 1930s horror movie icon Boris Karloff.
Pickett will perform first at 7 p.m. and be resuscitated for
an encore at 8:30 p.m. Between sets, he’ll sign autographs for
fans.
Molar Manor, a
half-million-dollar, movie-studio-quality haunted house
located in an ugly green 5,000 square foot warehouse at the
end of Fremont Court in the Valencia Industrial Center, will
be open 6 p.m. to midnight Saturday night, and again 4 p.m. to
9:30 p.m. Sunday.
The Manor’s
menacing maze of mayhem takes the brave-hearted through a
spectacularly spooky, hilariously horrific faux-Victorian
mansion replicated inside the warehouse, past more than two
dozen shockingly detailed and sometimes animatronic ghouls,
goblins, witches, skeletons, crypt-kickers and creepy
characters.
Among them are
“Electric Man,” “Hanging Man,” “Witches' Brew,” “Flying Bed
Man,” “Rabid Dog,” “Barbecue Pig” and “Dead Ballerina” (a.k.a.
“Spiny Dancer”).
Even the
weak-hearted spectators who dare not enter Molar Manor will
enjoy the evening's additional live entertainment onstage, the
terrifying tunes spun by DJs Bobby and Monica Alatorre of
Extreme Sound Systems, and the row of concession booths
featuring freaky, fun arcade games and a complete food and
treats court.
“We’re expecting
hundreds of kids to show up in costume again with their
parents this Halloween like they did last year — we can’t
wait!” said Dr. Ron Singer, who created Molar Manor as a
non-profit organization in 2002 as a Halloween fund-raiser for
local children’s charities. (See related story.) Singer, a
horror-tainment fan since childhood, is today a popular
pediatric dentist with a very successful practice in
Valencia.
“We have dancers coming
from the Star Dance Studio, Studio 1, Dance 84, Saugus High,
West Ranch High, the Nancy Horak Group and Hugo Chere’s demo
team from Fun ‘n’ Fit,” said Dena Blank, Molar Manor’s
entertainment director and a consultant/instructor at Star
Dance Studio.
“We’ll have the
California Flyers from GymCheer USA, Brooke Van Grisvean &
Company, plus various singers,” Blank continued. “And Vince
Falzone and his band with a singer will be onstage, too — he’s
very popular in the
area.”
Throughout the evening,
local radio station KHTS-AM 1220 will also broadcast segments
live from its booth in the middle of not-so-desolated
“Concession Row.” “I hear Carl Goldman from KHTS will be in a
coffin, but I’m not sure yet!” Singer
laughed.
“Some of the City
Councilmembers have also told me they’ll be there,” he added.
“Mayor Cameron Smyth will be onstage to help me introduce
Bobby and officially welcome him back to the community. Bob
Kellar was mayor last year when we presented Bobby the ‘Stake
to the City,’ and Mayor Smyth and I are planning something
special again this year!” | |
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