Belated Happy Ho Ho, everyone! We hope that your Holidays was as eventful as ours. Our Christmas show on the 11th was a lot of fun! It was like someone had vomited red, green and candy canes all over the Bloor.

The bigger event for us this month was traveling to Ottawa to see our first ever Repo! show by another shadow cast. Seven of the Shadow Cats hopped on a rental van (and new Shadow Cat Charlie, who had so happened to be in Ottawa that evening met us there) and made a 24-hour trip to Ottawa to see the Necromerchants Payment at Club Saw (yes… this is the actual name of their venue. Appropriate, no?).

We were incredibly excited to see the Necromerchants Payment. Since we’re all isolated up here in Canada, we were all admittedly jealous of all the state-side shadow casts who can hop from state to state to see each other’s shows. When we met the Ottawa shadow cast, the second Canadian cast to ever form, we were really stoked. We HAD to see their show!

The Ottawa show was so awesome! They had a small and intimate venue to work with, but they packed the house and got everyone to participate, which made it such a fun, interactive show. Their stage was also little, but they used it to their advantage… even when the whole cast was up there, it didn’t feel crowded. They blocked the show really well. Most importantly, you could really tell that every single cast member was having a blast up there. I believe that for a performance like shadow casting, the most important thing is to show that you’re genuinely having fun… don’t take yourself too seriously, improv when it calls for it and get the audience involved as much as possible. These Ottawa guys really made us proud!

Without further ado, here are photos from the Necromerchant Payment’s show!

The cast did a pre-show performance of BRAVI. It was so cute and it made us nostalgic of when we used to dance BRAVI during the credits of every single Repo! screening to promote our show. That was a long time ago!

Pavi and his Genterns! The Necromerchants were lit by one spotlight… it made for cool photos.

The cutest (perhaps youngest?) Shilo ever and the awesome British Rotti during the Limo ride.

Their Blind Mag was freaking amazing! She totally had fun with her character… and she was also really hot!

Robin, who is Repo Man and director of the Necromerchants Payment really made us proud. He’s a great director and an awesome actor.

Ottawa Graverobber and Toronto Graverobber, sharing a mutual chant of GRRRRRRRAAAAAVVVEEEESSSSS!!!!!

Us crazy, crazy Shadow Cats may be coming to a Repo! show near you! (Well… at least until we can all afford it… or we manage to eventually get our passports…)