From Re-bar’s resident found-footage freakshow Collide-O-Scope:

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Did you hear that explosion? It was my head. If I could afford to be put into a coma until 7pm on May 31, I would. Hunchback: The Musical performance footage? Live-action survivors’ tales? This should be a most amazing night.

(For those not up on Seattle theater history, Hunchback: The Musical was the late-’90s vanity project of a well-funded chanteuse/actress whose vanity-fueled dream was to play a singing hunchback. Many talented Seattle theatermakers—actors, musicians, dancers, designers, tech folk—got lured into Hunchback by the not-shabby compensation, and found themselves stranded in the biggest, weirdest flop of a show Seattle’s ever seen.)

Hunchback: Never forget.

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  2. Who was the “well-funded chanteuse/actress whose vanity-fueled dream was to play a singing hunchback?” Dina Martina?

  3. According to Google, the actress was Rainey Lewis. I’ve never heard of her and neither has Wikipedia or IMDB.

    Weird.

  6. From Rainey’s website bio:

    ‘In 1994, Rainey produced, directed, and starred in a small but well-received production of her musical “Hunchback”, in Seattle at the Playhouse Theater on August 5 of that year.’

  7. I’ll wear my “Hunchback” button!

    And if by “well-received” she means, “mercilessly vilified by everyone who saw or participated in it, except the producer/director/star”, then, yeah, I guess that’s an accurate description.

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