As my wife and I dig into the second season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the rest of the world (well, 25 cities worth of the rest of the world) is showing up for 'The Buffy Musical Big Screen Interactive Extravaga." And why wouldn't they?
"The Buffy Extravaganza" is an audience-participatory screening (think "Rocky Horror Picture Show") of "Once More, With Feeling," a "Buffy" episode from 2001 in which a demon forces the residents of Sunnydale to sing and dance out their darkest secrets. The mass-viewing concept began in 2004 with uber-fan Clinton McClung, 36, mourning the 2003 cancellation of his favorite TV show after a seven-year run.
McClung, a midnight movie programmer at a Boston theater, decided to "geek out" by running "Once More, With Feeling." He prepared for 150 guests. He got 600.
Buffy nights soon became regular events in Boston, and when McClung relocated to New York, he took the show with him. For the past three months it's been his full-time job. He's traveled to 13 cities, with 12 more on the docket, to create "roomfuls of Buffy love," which, in addition to the screening, include Buffy trivia, Buffy-oke (vampirilogical karaoke) and montages of favorite Buffy characters.
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