And guess what? It was actually rather funny. Some story threads got lost or confused, and the ending was pretty much a clusterfuck, and there were too many anachronisms. But when they stuck to the Shakespeare stuff, it was bloody good.
Here's the plot:
The King & Queen of some unspecified location lived in a castle on a rock. Thier daughter (and only issue), Fifi, is unmarried at 16 because she spent all her time dreaming of going to the stars. Her father arranges a banquet of suitors. To this banquet will come Santiago, a disgraced poor man with dark political ambitions, who pretends to believe in the socially liberal policies of the King. With the help of his soldier friend, Santiago will pretend to be a lord and attend the banquet, while the soldier disguises himself as a tea merchant and learns from the King any information he can that will give Santiago an edge in this banquet competition.
Meanwhile, into town shuffles poor Cholic, a man driven from his home and each subsequent locale due to the fact that his body has an incredible static electic charge. He runs into two bumbling scientists (one of whom is Italian) who, rather than fear him, are in awe of his power. They take him in and show Cholic a vehicle they've been working on. Cholic accidentally sparks life into it, and it takes off. Learning that the reason Cholic was banished from his home was that he built up so much of a charge once that when he touched his mother she shot skyward, the scientists realize that he is the perfect match for Fifi, who wants to be sent heavenward.
The soldier disguised as a tea merchant learns that the King has an insatiable craving for a specific food. At the banquet, as a blindfolded Fifi questions her possible suitors (including Cholic, from whom the blinded Fifi senses an incredible power), Santiago (with the knowledge from the soldier), produces this food. The King immediately accepts Santiago as the winner of the banquet and dismisses the other contestants. Cholic is forced to slink away dejected. How will Cholic and Fifi ever be together now that Santiago has bamboozled the King?
Santiago lets slip some of his darker intentions to Fifi, who now has no choice but to marry him. As she runs off to cry someplace over her unlucky position, the downtrodden Cholic comes upon her. They indeed have a strong connection, though Cholic's powers prevent them from touching. The two scientists show up and take Cholic away to view their new invention: using copper jump roap a battery they drain almost all of Cholic's static electricity so that he and Fifi may be together. But she is set to marry Santiago on the wedding barge post-haste!
The scientists have a plan. They know that Santiago carries a sword and is of rash temper. They wrap Cholic's body with copper wire and steal alongside the barge in a small boat. As the marriage ceremony is about to commence, Cholic leaps from the boat onto the barge. He angers Santiago to such a degree that Santiago takes out his sword and attempts to murder Cholic on the spot. However, just as Santiago's sword touches the copper wiring around Cholic's body, Cholic touches the tip of the wire to his tongue and unleashes the final amount of electricity in his body into the wire, up through Santiago's sword, and into the villain's body, electrocuting him dead. Now completely static-free, Cholic finally may embrace Fifi without harming her.
But the scientists have one more surprise up their sleeves. As the two lovers embrace, the scientists connect a free end of the copper wire to the battery on their boat. All of Cholic's drained energy flows back into Cholic and Fifi, rocketing them skyward to be together forever in the heavens.
I sat between Geoff & Taisha, and had a good time hanging out with them there. Afterwards the whole posse hung out on the sidewalk for a while. Jack Bridges (of the Lloyd/Jeff/Beau family) was there! I hadn't seen him in for ages! I went home after that.
