The Rocky Road Shadowcast

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• Established 2017

Cast Location: West Michigan
A traveling shadowcast available in the lower half of Michigan's West shoreline and East to US-127.

Cast Website: Website here.

Cast Facebook: Message The Rocky Road Shadowcast at Facebook link here.

Cast Status: Active

Cast Venues:
Harbor Cinema, Muskegon MI (closed)
Celebration! Cinema Plaza 1 & 2, Muskegon MI (closed)
Wealthy Theatre, Grand Rapids MI
The Sun Theatre, Williamston MI
The Playhouse at White Lake, Whitehall MI
Circle Theatre (outdoors performance), Grand Rapids MI
Saugatuck Woman's Club, MI

Show Frequency: Year round, per engagement

Cast History

Established 2017, formerly The Denton High Drama Club, Name changed to The Rocky Road Shadowcast July 1st 2024.

Michael Baribeau, "Around 2015 my coworker Larry Selvage asked me and some other friends to see the Halloween Rocky movie playing. No Shadowcast in West Michigan then but turned out Larry, who was usually pretty soft spoken, knew all the callback lines and was hysterical to sit with. I hadn't seen it since the 80s so it was a fun nostalgic time. Back in those days there weren't really Shadowcasts, just audience members jumping in and kinda had a Mardi gras feel. Larry knew I did community theatre, said he wanted to start a Shadowcast. I said sure and I knew a theater friend who would make a great Frank. Larry convinced Grand Rapids Celebration Cinema to include us once a month in their midnight movie run and in 2016 the first official West Michigan shadow cast was born their inaugural show 08/07/16. One of the cast was Kevin Kilbry and a year later he started The Denton High Drama Club, now The Rocky Road Shadowcast, where I performed as well. Through Kevin's ties we started drawing other amazing performers including Jennifer Finney aka The Mistress and Mana Nelson from the Michigan Rocky Horror Preservation Society (same acronym as RHPS) from Wayne MI. Both shadowcasts lost their home venues after Covid and have kinda been in limbo since. We've been unable to find a new home, although thanks to Kevin and the shadowcast we have annual Halloween shows at The Wealthy in Grand Rapids and The Sun Theatre in Williamston and occasional Pride shows. Kevin retired as Producer (06/01/22 Saugatuck Pride) staying on as cast and support while I took over as Producer. Since we're already traveling to do these show and with encouragement from RHPS forums and casts like Sweet Translucent Dreams of Pennsylvania we're carrying on by making a push to become an official traveling shadowcast of West Michigan and make the road our shadowcast home. 07/01/24 Changed cast name to The Rocky Road Shadowcast, created a website, new Facebook page, and brochures. Purchased a used 6x12 and 6 foot tall enclosed trailer for $1300 for sets, costumes, props, and prob bags. monthly storage $62 2 blocks from my house in Grand Haven.

Generally covering the lower half of the West Michigan shoreline and East out around US-127.

Logo prompted by Michael Baribeau using Dream AI by Wombo here.

Members

Founder and Producer 2017 Kevin Kilbry aka Capitan Dasterdly
Producer 2022 Michael Baribeau aka Sweet Pea

Emcee: Michael Baribeau aka Sweet Pea
Emcee: Sam Koster aka The Marvelous Frankenthusiast (Marv)

FREQUENT CAST MEMBERS

Kevin
Jennifer
Mana
Christine
Sam V
Sam F
Sammy
Mickey
Jess
Lane
Walt
Addie
Rain