BW PRISM’s annual event Misfits returned to the Conservatory on Oct. 25. Located in Fynette Music Hall, this year’s theme was “Maneaters,” inspired by the film “Jennifer’s Body” and representing the concept of the “final girl” in horror slasher films.
Sophia Fitzpatrick, a sophomore speech therapy major and the co-artistic director of PRISM, said when the team was brainstorming the theme for this year’s event, they agreed they wanted to keep the theme of “Jennifer’s Body” but branch away from it being the overall theme.
“Our main theme was ‘Jennifer’s Body,’ but we didn’t want it to be too niche because not everyone has seen the movie. So, then we expanded to maneaters as a whole,” Fitzpatrick said.
There were not any creative challenges behind this year’s Misfits other than choosing which “final girl” characters the team wanted to focus on for the audience to vote for at the concert.
Fitzpatrick said that choosing this year’s characters was “tricky” because they had several iconic characters they wanted to focus on, but had to limit their choices in order to stick to the theme and make it truly stand out. Characters they considered included Jennifer from “Jennifer’s Body,” the bride of “Kill Bill,” and Pearl from “Pearl.”
“We have a little voting system that people who come to the concert can decide who they want to vote for. It was deciding between the four famous maneaters…” Fitzpatrick said. “It was hard to pick just a few we wanted to focus on out of so many we that we wanted, but I think we narrowed it down to a really good selection.”
The audience voting system can be compared to last year’s Misfits show with the audience choosing whether they were team Edward or Jacob from the movie series “Twilight.”
Fitzpatrick said the goal of the audience voting system is to add more interaction and additional fun to the concert.
Brynn Gvozdanovoc, a senior music therapy major and the music director/composer of BW PRISM, said she hopes the audience can take away from Misfits that it’s possible to have a good time amidst all the stress of academia.
“As a conservatory student, personally, it can be really easy to get caught up with music feeling like a job without the fun element to it. And PRISM to me is a way to make music and have fun.” Gvozdanovoc said.
