With Halloween around the corner, celebrations around the world have started and most of them includes a little tribute to “Thriller”!
Halloween is the time where people dress up as Zombies or Wherewolf and have a good time, it the time when kids knock on the door to trick or treat you. And the celebrations have started!
Saturday night, Ozarkers packed into the 200 block of East Commercial Street for Springfield’s seventh annual zombie dance tribute to Michael Jackson’s pop hit “Thriller.”
Anne Walls, part owner of Savoy Ballroom and Dance With Me, is a key organizer of Thriller on C-Street. It began in 2010 with about 2,000 attendees, a surprise hit with the public, according to past News-Leader coverage.
Walls told the News-Leader Friday that since that year, the free “Thriller” party has begun to draw about 5,000 people. It now includes two staging’s of the “Thriller” dance, featuring about 150 dancers.
Walls said “Thriller” also includes a circus-themed pre-event, Dr. Deadalous’s Traveling Zombie Show, an afternoon kid-style “Thriller” that’s less scary, as well as an after-party to benefit the American Cancer Society.
Just before the dance began, Nixa resident April Gamel was hanging out on the sidewalk. She told the News-Leader she decided to come see “Thriller” for the first time this year.
She said she is a huge Michael Jackson fan, even though her favorite song is “Black or White” rather than “Thriller.”
“I think about everyone my age was a fan of Michael Jackson,” she said.
Gamel recalled that around the time Jackson created “Thriller,” in 1982, she was in junior high. A group of cheerleaders in her hometown, Lamar, did a “Thriller” routine.
By comparison, she thought the Commercial Street version would have choreography that was more “out there.”
Ghosts and goblins make for thrilling Monster Mash on Market Street in PARKERSBURG — Assorted ghosts and goblins, comic characters and superheroes were out in force Saturday evening for the annual Monster Mash on Market, sponsored by Downtown PKB.
Wendy Shriver, executive director of Downtown PKB, said the new item featured at this year’s event was an opening flash mob-style “Thrill the World” performance by Brickhouse Cardio to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
Sure more will come next week during the Halloween Week-end! More events in our calendar HERE
SOURCE: New Leader / News & Sentinel
