By Farris Willingham, Staff Writer
Students are preparing to participate with the local community at the Oklahoma Gazette’s Ghouls Gone Wild Parade.
The Gazette will host the parade at 7 p.m. Saturday in downtown Oklahoma City.
Between 65-75 students will help to create and paint the parade pieces for Service Learning credit, said Jim Hutchison, school of theater lighting designer.
“We don’t have floats because there’s a 12-foot height limit,” he said. “We’re calling our parade pieces apparitions.”
The apparitions—ranging from a sea of jellyfish, to a squid, giant spider, and a sliced-up buffalo—will be student-operated, Hutchison said.
“The students are the life of the parade,” he said. “They will be giving life to the apparitions and interacting with the crowd.”
All performance students for the past two years have participated in the haunted house fundraiser, said David Herendeen, director of opera and musical theater.
“We didn’t do it this year because I felt the location, which was Crossroads Mall, is too dangerous,” he said.
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