The Weinberg Center is a historic 1920's era theater in Fredrick, MD. We shot here over two Friday nights, about twelve hours plus apiece. The first Friday, we did all the scenes involving the lobby and the exterior of another theater that we used a week earlier for the showing of the movie "Lucifer Cicero". We did scenes involving Taylor Coffman's character, Shelly.
Right away the manager of the theater told us the Weinberg Center was haunted by a ghost named Jimmy. Jimmy was the projectionist, and he had died many years ago in the projection booth from a heart attack.
"Jimmy's a friendly ghost, don't worry, just call out and let him know you're there before entering dark spaces..." she told us.
Needless to say, there were many small group expeditions into the nether-regions of the historic theater in the wee hours to test this whole ghost thing....
The silk was hung from the balcony with care to brighten the lobby.
It takes several people to assemble the frames and attach the silks.
Here is Josh, who plays the character Alex, sporting his $7 thrift store suit.
My friend Deanna would like this shot, she loves the Drama-Tragedy masks.
This is the interior of the Weinberg Center, though we didn't use this particular one as our theater in our film.
This was Emory (Percy Groot) doing some shadowplay onstage at the Weinberg Center.
Emory (Percy Groot).
Joy (Alicia).
This is the hot ride Ron Price shows up to bring the stars of "Lucifer Cicero" to the movie premiere. We had it on loan from Cadillacs of Tysons Corner.
That's right, we OWN this street come midnight!
This is Steady Cam Dan, looking tired. It must be about 1am here.
Free soda!
We shot these scenes around the corner from the theater, Ron Price picking up his star actors in the cadillac to be dropped off at the red carpet. Meanwhile, the bars in Fredrick had thier last call and the drunks were coming out of the woodwork to gawk. We had to work quickly and employ our police officer extra to rid the riff raff.
Unfortunately, this is where my digital camera died and I didn't have my battery charger with me (it was back in Virginia in my car, as I had driven Neil's SUV so we could get the stunt car to the location...). So, I missed the shots where we had the back of Shelly's head bleeding all over the pavement in front of the theater after Percy accidently hits her with his car. I also missed the shots where we were fixing a horrendous blonde wig to the back of Taylor's head so the movie blood wouldn't dye her beautiful blonde hair pink. :-(
