Bugs Bunny Follies

[Xerus]

I toured with "Bugs Bunny Meets The SuperHeroes” in the 80’s. After graduating college I
moved to New York to pursue acting. One morning I woke up super early to make an “open
call”. At 4:30 am I joined a hundred actors online to get a number allowing us to audition. An
article in Backstage illustrated, "It's not uncommon to have hundreds of actors at an open call
even thousands depending on the show's popularity." Ten roles will be cast from a pool of 500
at todays open call. After dancing, singing and reading the stage manager calls 10 numbers
asking those individuals to remain before releasing everyone else.Two weeks later we opened
in Phoenix, Arizona playing through the Midwest before closing in Los Angeles. 40 years ago I
ruined Porky Pigs party eight times a week entertaining children as they yelled, cheered and
sang along at a live interactive theatrical experience unlike the video games that dominate
entertainment options for youngsters today. Touring with Bugs was an incredible experience
particularly because I never traveled outside my hometown in PA. There you have it..a fir
hand account from a cast member of “Bugs Bunny Meets the SuperHeroes.”
"That's All Folks"!

Cool, you were in that show? Which character did you play?

 

[wiley207]

Also, It looks like someone on here took my report and wrote about it on their blog, along with adding some great photographs. https://wile-e2005.livejournal.com/139471.html

That was my blog entry! That was cool you got to see the show as a kid in the 70s. I was always curious about it. And yeah, some of those Looney Tunes character costumes REALLY pale in comparison to the ones used at the Six Flags parks, or the really good new ones at Warner Bros. World in Abu Dhabi and Parque Warner Madrid in Spain. It'd be fun to see this show revived for one of the Six Flags parks or something.