Mr. Fall Guy & Miss Fall Gal Contest a Feature

OCEAN CITY WELCOMES FALL SEASON
WITH HOOPLA ON BEACH, AUGUST 31st

OCEAN CITY, N.J.--- Who will be the first King and Queen of Plop?

That question will answered on Fri., Aug. 31 when this resort holds the First Mr. Fall Guy and Miss Fall Gal Pageant starting 11 a.m. at the 9th Street Beach opposite the Music Pier.

This is the way the City will welcome the coming of the fall season, always a lovely time at the shore. Contestants will be asked to fall dramatically (and in slow motion) to the sands. Those performing the most original renditions will be named Mr. Fall Guy and Miss Fall Gal, AKA the King and Queen of Plop.

After the winners are named all contestants will hold hands and perform a mass plopping as a goodwill, no sore loser gesture.

Contestants may register starting 10:30 a.m. at the 9th St Beach. Entry is free and prizes will be awarded.

The Pageant will be opened with a performance by the World’s First and Only Wind Chimes Band. The group’s leaders include Doug Jewell of Air Circus, Jamie Ford of Barefoot Trading Company and popular musician and Elvis performer, Ted Prior.

The band opened the City’s recent Weird Concert Week with such selections as “Brother Can You Spare a Chime” and the inspirational “Unchimed Melody.”

Suzanne Muldowney, AKA Under Dog, will perform an interpretive dance to the band’s Presley spin-off “I Can’t Help Falling on The Sand For You.” Muldowney was the subject of a recent, award winning documentary film, “My Life As An Underdog.”

A panel of local celebrity judges will select the winners. They include Hank Glaser, proprietor of Shriver’s Salt Water Taffy, model Brianna Brown, Michele Gillian, the City’s Communications Manager and Fred Miller, president of the Historical Museum and author of three Ocean City history books. Miller promised to put the new fall event in his next book.

Walt Homan of Wards Pastry is chairman of the Ploppers Advisory Board. He will bake an upside down cake that will be plastered in the face of emcee, Mark Soifer, City Public Relations Director, to start the contest. Why this is significant is yet to be determined.

The rules of the contest are simple. All participants must fall dramatically in slow motion to the sand. Costumes are permissible. All contestants must sign a waiver freeing the City from liability. Parents must sign for underage ploppers.

“This is our way of emphasizing that fall is on its way and that it’s a great time in Ocean City,” said Soifer. “The weather is grand, the pace is less hectic and we have many events planned right up to First Night and First Day at the Beach, our gala New Year’s celebrations.”

For information, call the Public Relations Office, 609-525-9300.
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