(I insisted on posing with this taxi just in case it happens to be THE taxi from Book Twelve. Ahem).
Anyway, I was lucky enough to hang around the ASOUE set today and see it being filmed. Here’s some details I was able to pick up:
They were filming a scene where Olaf, the Hook-Handed Man, the Character of Indeterminate Gender, the Bald Man and the two white-faced ladies get into a car and drive away from Mulctuary Management, presumably cackling. Can’t remember which book that was, but Olaf’s Troupe are all so distinctive, it was awesome to see.
It’s diverse. It’s really diverse. I wouldn’t worry.
There’s a definite fifties mobster vibe in the design of the show. Plus a few things that reminded us of Pushing Daisies.
Basically LOTS of POC in fabulous suits and fifties dresses, plus fancy cars is most of what we saw.
They were filming inside of Mulctuary Management as well, so maybe that’s where the kids were? I’m not sure
The two white-faced old ladies were super cute.
Olaf- just holy hell guys. I’m sure you’ve seen the photos by now, but you’d never know it was NPH, or even that it was an actor playing him. It was just Olaf, right out of the illustrations (that silhouette though!) and it was actually kind of chilling to see in real life.
He’s definitely gross and creepy, they’re not toning those apsects down.
It was really cool that they went to all the trouble of making those newspapers and putting them up where people could see them. I was kind of touched actually.
Devoted fans of these books are thin on the ground, so I felt kind of like a spy explaining things to everyone.
They seem super-chill with photography, which is unusual for Vancouver, so they’ll be more to come from me!