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Staging frights

Sure, you can go see a scary film this Halloween weekend, but you can still tell yourself, “It’s only a movie,” right? For real chills, there’s nothing like a live show to freeze the blood.

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Eric Woolfe is a horror movie aficionado who also happens to be a fantastic puppeteer, and he’s combined his talents in previous creepy works like Grendelmaus, Sideshow Of The Damned and The Babysitter. His latest, Madhouse Variations, is set in an insane asylum and draws from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Ambroise Bierce. Plays through November 7 at the Theatre Centre. 416-538-0988.

What would Halloween be without The Rocky Horror Show? And we don’t mean dressing up and singing along to the movie (see Halloween Movies, above). The real show about Frank N. Furter and his raunchy experiments plays through October 31 at the Lower Ossington Theatre. 416-915-6747.

Speaking of sweet transvestites, don’t miss Fay Slift’s Blood Lust, which features performances by Daytona Bitch, Boylesque TO, Miss Fluffy Souffle and a costume contest. Friday (October 29) at Buddies in Bad Times. 416-975-8555.

If you’re in the mood for a creepy cabaret night, check out Dimentia 666: Night Of The Haunted, which includes spoken word, hip-hop, video art and comedy by Electric Jon, frequent NOW contributor Dave Silverberg and more. Saturday (October 30) at the Dominion on Queen. 416-368-6893.

And while not exactly scary, the musical Wicked, on at the Canon until November 28, is inspired by Oz’s two witches (see review, page 61). 416-872-1212.

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