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October 30, 2009

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By Mary Therese Biebel mbiebel@timesleader.com
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How often do you get to see a vampire salsa with Snow White? Or a mummy waltz with the Wicked Witch of the West?

Face it, Halloween fans. This weekend is probably your last chance until next year for a scary-costumes dance. Or a deliberately frightful piece of theater. Or a trek through a haunted something-or-other.

To make the most of this last black-and-orange weekend, here are a few suggestions:

A Halloween Dance

Organizer Rosemary Lubinski has given Father Nallin Hall in Tunkhannock a countrified look with hay bales, cornstalks and such, and she urges people to attend a “Country Halloween Dance” there tomorrow evening.

Costumes aren’t mandatory, but they’ll make the dance more fun, said Lubinski, who will be leading the way in blue gingham as Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz.”

For other opportunities to kick up your ruby-slippered feet, check out tonight’s Halloween Costume Ball at the Artists for Art Gallery in Scranton. Tomorrow evening, you’ll also find a ’50s-style Blast from the Past Halloween dance at Genetti Manor in Dickson City and a Halloween dance with polka music at the Sons of the American Legion Squadron in Plymouth.

A “Haunted” Place

Boy, oh, boy, those ghosts get around. Though some have been moaning and rattling their chains for weeks now, they’re still managing to lie in wait for hapless Halloweeners in the Haunted Forest at Penn State’s Wilkes-Barre campus in Lehman Township, the Haunted Harvest near a Clarks Summit cornfield and the Brokenharts Asylum on the Luzerne County Fairgrounds.

They’re haunting Gravestone Manor at the Trion Warehouse in Plains Township, Horror Hall at the old Harter High School building in West Nanticoke, and Trails of Terror at the Exeter Park Volunteer Hose. Co.

Don’t forget Night Terrors at the East End Center in Wilkes-Barre or Night Frights at the Back Mountain Memorial Library, where one particularly spooky area contains more than 100 skulls.

A scary play

So many people want to be scared this year, organizers added an extra “Night of the Living Dead” show at 11:30 tonight in the Phoenix Performing Arts Centre in Duryea. That means – brace yourself – the audience will be there with the zombies after midnight, and the show, director John Schugard reminds us, is “not for the faint of heart.”

Now, even if your heart is faint, you’d probably live through the comic “Frankie and Muffy’s Monster Wedding” at the Corner Bistro Dinner Theater in Carbondale, the family-friendly, musical version of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” at the J.J. Ferrara Center in Hazleton, or the campy cult classic “The Rocky Horror Show” at the Music Box Dinner Theater in Swoyersville.

For more information, turn to the Events listings inside this publication.

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