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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014
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Students detail work experience at haunted house
RYAN WRIGHT
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Leah Albee takes pride in her ability to scare people. As Halloween approaches and haunted houses prepare for annual shows, Albee looks forward to using her lifelong experience with acting to help her professionally scare people.
"Getting a reaction from an audience is the main objective as an actor, you want to elicit an emotional response," Albee said. "One such response is fear."
Albee, a sophomore political science major, and Elena Cleaves, a junior journalism major, are both from Lansing and worked as actresses for the Halloween Haunt at Worlds of Fun last October. The Halloween Haunt is an annual event which features many Halloween themed attractions, one of which is an asylum, where Cleaves and Albee worked. Both got involved with the Halloween Haunt the same way: they were friends with a director who needed volunteers to perform in the attraction.
"It can be really intense," Al-
bee said. "It's incredibly fun, you get to really develop a character any way you want to, your makeup is always crazy fun, and you get to interact with people and you try to get a rise out of them. It's really empowering."
She said in a haunted house setting, the attendees are already paranoid and super high-strung so it's easy to hide behind a corner and scream in their face when they come around. While getting a good scare is "super satisfying," Albee said the work can also be very tiresome, especially when the attendees are rowdy or are too good to be scared.
"The latter is especially annoying. Why even bother going to a haunted house if all you want to do is act superior?" Albee said. "It makes the performers really uncomfortable."
Albee has been acting her entire life and was very involved with theatre growing up. She has performed in numerous plays such as Camelot, The Drowsy Chaperone and The Vagina Monologues. With her love of acting, she naturally found the Halloween Haunt enjoyable.
Cleaves performed in a few high school musicals but never took acting very seriously. Despite this, she found pleasure in working at Halloween Haunt, even though she said there were a few instances that were less enjoyable. Cleaves said performers have been choked and had items such as bottles thrown at them. "It's fun to scare, but some teenagers can be nightmares," she said.
"It was an eye-opening experience," Cleaves said. "I don't go to many haunted houses because I get scared easily, but it was incredible being on the other side. I was able to see the ridiculous amounts of time and effort that go into it, and how much it means to the actors who do it full time. I enjoyed being able to scare people and give them their money's worth."
Albee still enjoys performing when she gets the chance. Cleaves enjoyed performing at the Halloween Haunt and hopes to perform again this year.
— Edited by Jennifer Salva
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