Good Life Social Club plans Zombie Prom, trolley tours
Staff Photo: Tara Fletcher
By Carlton Fletcher
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ALBANY — What’s more appropriate on a Friday the 13th in October than a gathering of Zombies and other ghastly ghouls?
The Good Life Social Club is welcoming such creatures with open arms to its Halloween drop dead gorgeous costume dance party/Zombie Prom Friday at Theatre Albany at 514 Pine Ave. In conjunction with the prom, the Social Club is teaming with the Albany Convention & Visitors Bureau to offer a first-of-its-kind Haunted and Historic Trolley Tour of downtown Albany.
“We wanted to celebrate Halloween, and we decided to hold a ‘prom’ for people who, for whatever reason, didn’t get to go to prom in high school,” Good Life Social Club member Allen Vanhook said. “And we’re going to royally crown someone during the night. … It may be a king and queen, two queens or whatever, but we’re going to crown someone.”
Meanwhile, a trolley brought in for the occasion will offer four tour opportunities through some of the spookier haunts downtown.
“We’ll offer a kind of historic overview of some of the sites downtown … the Edward Vason Jones house, the Farkas House, the Smith House, the Theatre (Albany) building and the historic downtown cemetery,” Vanhook said. “Some of these places have their own ghosts; there’s one at the theater. And the tours will wind up at the Visitors Bureau’s Bridge House, where (local attorney) Phil Cannon will offer an eyewitness account of a ghost he caught on film.”
Convention & Visitors Bureau Executive Director Rashelle Minix said her staff is excited to be included as part of the trolley tour.
“This is such a great idea; we’d talked several times about doing downtown tours, and when the Good Life Social Club approached us about this plan to include the tours with their Zombie Prom, we thought it was a great idea,” Minix said. “It’s just a win all the way around: It is something very new and different; it will bring people to the downtown area, and it will benefit Theatre Albany.
“We’re going to serve cheese and wine for the stop at the Bridge House, and Phil (Cannon) will be set up to show footage of paranormal activity he captured.”
The trolley tours, which will be narrated by Morgan the One-Eyed Tour Guide and Missy — volunteer actors who are regulars with Theatre Albany — are scheduled to leave the theater at 6, 7, 8 and 9 p.m. Cost is $20, and participants are asked to arrive 15 minutes before the start of their tour.
Vanhook said participants in the 21-and-over prom, whose tickets are $25 per person, are encouraged to come in their best scary costume.
“We’re going to do it up right,” he said. “We’ll have lights, red carpet … the whole deal. It’s going to be a special night.
“The Good Life Social Club wanted to get more actively involved with fun events in the community, and we also wanted to show our support for the arts. All proceeds from the prom and the trolley tours will benefit Theatre Albany.”
The local Little Caesars restaurants are co-sponsoring the event.
The Good Life Social Club is a group of local citizens that collectively is committed to making Albany a more engaged and engaging community.
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