"Tricks and Treats" on Coney Island.

This article provides information on Tricks and Treats at the Wax Musée produced at the World in Wax Musée in Coney Island, New York on October 31, 1981. The producer of Tricks and Treats was Coney Island, U.S.A., an organization dedicated to the preservation of American amusements and presentation of performance art. Historically, the wax museum belonged to the popular entertainment form known as the dime museum, which had a relative fixed structure. Eventually the various elements of the dime museum left for other institutions. Inside the museum, the spectator passed a row of wax exhibits of once-famous murderers in the act of committing the crimes that had made them front-page celebrities. Representative of the presentations at "Tricks and Treats of the Wax Musée were pieces by Paul Zaloom, Sandra McKee, Charles Ludlam and Dick Zigun. Zaloom entered from the rear of the audience and, blowing on a hallow pipe to simulate the boat horn, moved through the crowd to the table. His act continued with the renovation of a Lower East Side tenement, a trip to the Bronx that included a stop at Yankee stadium. In a booth with a door and a window, whitewashed walls and a blood-spattered floor, Mckee, seated in a chair with a raincoat draped over the back, told of violent crimes and various atrocities her mother used to read to her from the newspapers.