Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
One Mighty Weekend: One Mighty Party
One Mighty Weekend Recap: Saturday @ One Mighty Party at MGM Studios Following a beautiful day and a very successful and jam packed pool party, the attendees of One Mighty Weekend adjourned back to our rooms to prepare for the next round of evening parties. First up, the official event of the weekend, One Mighty Party at MGM Studios.
The first part of the evening was a performance by gay favorite Kathy Griffin which started around 8 PM. After catching a shuttle cab with a few other cute boys from New York, we arrived at MGM Studios fashionably late around 9 PM. We just managed to catch the last few minutes of the show but because of the point where we entered we were situated in an audio dead spot so couldn't really hear much of anything.
As soon as Kathy Griffith's show ended, everyone was ushered through the MGM New York set to a dance area that was setup just in front of the giant Mickey's Fantasia Wizard hat.
The dance area quickly filled up. Some of our crew chose to head out to explore the park a bit and hop on a few rides such as the Tower of Terror while others like Philip, Jerry and I chose to remain at the dance area and enjoy the music.
The featured performance of the evening was that of a full orchestra set on stage accompanied by a live performance by the queen of disco herself, Donna Summer. At 11 PM, just before Donna Summer was to take stage, the nice weather took a turn for the worse and started to shower the crowd with a light mist. It wasn't anything to ruin the party, just enough to make things a little damp and make it dangerous for Ms. Summer to walk out on stage. After a quick mop down of the stage, Donna Summer carrying an umbrella and escorted on the arm of one of her body guards appeared on stage.
Her performance was absolutely amazing. Her voice sounded perfect, just as if she was stepping onto the stage back in the 1970's. She sang 'Last Dance', 'MacArthur Park' and a few other of her classics, all to the background of a live orchestra right there on stage.
Immediately following a grand applause for her performance the fireworks show kicked off and was synchronized to the background song of Xanadu by Olivia Netwon John. It was a fabulous display of explosives which lit up the cloudy Orlando night and made it a special event for us all.
Surrounded by our friends and new acquaintances we watched the fireworks, hugged each other and proclaimed how great a weekend this has been and it's still only 1/2 way done.
Following the fireworks display, West Hollywood DJ Roland Belmares. took the stage and proceeded to give us a show that would fire us all up and keep us dancing for the next few hours.
Around 2 AM, after meeting some new people, dancing with our friends, and having an all around amazing time, we packed everyone up and left the park to head back to the hotel for a quick change and onto our next event, the Magic Journey Afterhours at Arabian Nights with DJ Abel. Cheers!
