Hah. So I was telling my mom about the Weakest Link tryouts (the story really is coming! It's just that I'm balancing and cropping 18 pictures while packing and the day's in a serious tizzy), and she told me how yesterday she went to the Hollywood Bowl (she lives in Los Angeles, as does most of the rest of my family) to sing the Sound of Music. Thousands of Sound of Music fans gather in the amazing amphitheater and they show the film along with subtitles, karaoke-style, as the crowd belts out the songs!

In a way, it's just like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in that you dress up and sing along with everyone else, but probably unlike it in that there's no made-up verses, or Transylvanian transsexuals, although there's probably more virgins (that is, 'singalong virgins' in the audience, and 'virgins in the actual film.' I imagine there are more real virgins at an actual Rocky Horror night than at the Sound of Music deal (at least per capita (but then you never know, if they've been going to Rocky for a while...)) checking.. yup, one more paren ). Ahh, balanced parentheses... Well, that's all for now. I just wonder when singalong Moulin Rouge is coming...

PS: Visit Sing-a-long Worldwide if you want to find out about their other performances, or if you like cute feelgood flash navigation.

PPS: Digging deeper, it seems that they're in San Francisco, at the Castro from tomorrow, July 2 through the 7th, when they head to Philadelphia. Wish I could go...