Living statues and mimes always make me cry
The door to the Bricktown Special Events center was flanked by a pair of solid white statues last night as I entered to attend the 2008 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup College Business Plan awards ceremony.
Or were they statues? Somehow, I knew they were real people, but I hurried past the motionless, expressionless statues because I feared they might move or look me in the eye.
I’m frightened by living statues and mimes the way some children are scared of clowns and Santa Claus.
When I got inside the Special Events center, I saw there were two more of them standing on the stage.
Later, I found out that the four “living statues” were from a drama troupe called Fox Moon Productions and hired by i2E, which manages the Governor’s Cup competition, for the event.
I dared to approach them at the conclusion of the banquet just to see if they might come out of character for an interview. They did.
The quartet included from left in the above photo, Angela Mullens, Valerie Hames, Lynn Simon and Robert Mullens. Robert and Angela are a husband-and-wife team, and Angela is coordinator of the company.
Fox Moon Productions has been in existence for nine years and produce characters from historical to fantasy, said Angela Mullens.
The group loves to watch reactions of its audience when a member of the troupe moves or turns a head. People often are startled to find life in what they thought was a lifeless statue.
“That’s the joy of it,” one of the statues told me before I hurried out the door. “I love it.”
Business News Writer
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