Staff Night Life Writer
You’re
in for some treatsssssssssss.
At
10 p.m. this Friday, the Gorgon Sisters will bring their high-demand singing
act to the Young Fronkensteen Theatre in Downtown Transyl-vein-ia for what is
said will be a weekly show.
“We’re
thrilled to have the girls live at the Young Fronkensteen,” said theatre owner
Mighty Joe Young. “We’re still working on an agreement, but we’re hoping to
have their act every Friday night.”
Part
of Young’s deal restricts the mythological creatures from turning theatre
guests who are staring into stone.
“It’s
against their nature,” Young said, “but we can’t have them making statues out
of our audiences. It’s in their best interest. And, hey, we’re not saying all
guests are off limits. We’re just asking them to save those who aren’t incessantly
staring.”
The
Gorgon Sisters’ music is from another time, and not even their own ancient
time. After the oldest sister, Medusa, lost her head during a run-in with the
Greek hero Perseus some time ago, she underwent surgery to get her head back on
her shoulders. She developed a love for song and, in the late 1930s, decided
life was too short -- she got her sisters together and they built up a singing
act.
The
Gorgon Sisters’ first performances were for some skeletons, ogres and giant scorpions
in Monster Island’s Gorgon Gorge. After turning them into stone and then
everyone else in the region, the sisters found they had no one else to
entertain. So they took take their act on the road.
In
1942, they hired a manager who figured out that putting the sisters on radio
and TV would preserve their fan base because the fans wouldn’t be sculptures by
the end of each performance. That’s when the girls recorded “Boogie Woogie
Bugle Boy” and “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” which went platinum.
“But
music lovers wanted to see the Gorgon Sisters live,” Young said. “And they
couldn’t do that until now. That’s the gift I’m giving those who’ve stood
behind them all these years, although I recommend you actually ‘stand behind
them’ and avoid eye contact when they perform. You’ve been warned.”
The
cost to see the show is $15 a head (bring your own, Perseus) and maybe your
life if you can’t stop staring. Doors open at 8 p.m.
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