Via Jorge's Memory: Our cast formed around 1991, after the death of "The Midnight Crew", the most recent cast up to that point, at the Hillsboro 8 Theatres. "Interchangeable Parts" was sort of a pick up cast and they were missing about half the character parts (hence the cast name). They had a Brad, Janet, Frank, and Columbia. The rest of the parts were grabbed from the audience before show. That was where I came in - they grabbed me for Eddie. The first cast director, Sean, quit after my first night performing. His Assistant Director Kevin took over. He stayed for about 4 months (shaky guess), and he appointed Cammile as his Assistant Director, who took over once he left. She was our director for a long while, until as I remember Terran tried to take over the cast, resulting in both of them getting canned, and Brian Dare rose to the director post. I'll have to talk to Brian to verify how log he was in charge, but he appointed me as his assistant director. When he left the first CORCHADO DYNASTY began.

We rolled along like that for a long while with me as the director, until Cineplex (theatre) was bought by Carmike, and our patron saint, Mr. Perkins (the district manager), was transferred. The manager Craig, who never liked us anyway, wasted no time in giving us our boot, so the cast went on sort of a forced sabattical and everyone went on with their own lives.

I was working for the schoolboard at the time and one of the YMCA councellors there was the daughter of an AMC theatre manager (Ernie) that I had worked for when I was at AMC. One day she asked if I still did Rocky and I told her the situation, and lo and behold, it turns out her dad was looking for a Rocky cast at his theatre (Seminole AMC Theatres) to try to save their midnight shows.

I called the cast and dragged them kicking and screaming back to the show and we were performing again in Pinellas County this time. It had been a total of about 6 months off so, the cast members started to realize that they liked having a life, and started drifting off, and that was when we began developing what I decided to call IP2 (Interchangeable Parts II) since the cast members were changing so frequently and a subtitle of "Seminole Vesicles" was added. We remained at Seminole theatres about a year and a half, somewhere in the middle, I stepped down as director and quit the cast to persue life outside of Rocky (what we call a burn-out) and my assistant director, Tom, became the new director. End Jorge's version of events.

Start Jannie's recollection of events: This is about when I started Rocky (in June of 1996), so I'll take it from here. I don't remember the length of time Tom was the director, but it wasn't long before the end of the Seminole era. About that time, Jorge decided to start hanging around the cast again, so when Tom left, Jorge was voted back in. We had to leave Seminole when they decided to stop their midnight shows, but almost immediately, we were able to go right to Crossroads 8 Theatres in St. Petersburg (same county).

I heard it was mainly through the efforts of that Seminole manager, Ernie, that we landed that home at Crossroads. Shortly after we started at Crossroads 8, we voted to change the cast subtitle (since we were no longer in Seminole) to "Groupies Gone Bad." We remained performing there happily until the big manager there decided she didn't like Rocky. So, after a year, we had to move on. We wandered aimlessly in our own lives for 5 months until Kristie contacted the Pinellas Parkside Mall theatre and got us a home there in November 1997.

We had a wonderful theatre manager, Mark, at Parkside. It wasn't long after we started at Pinellas Mall that Jamie was voted in as the new Stage Manager. Shortly after that, I was voted the new treasurer and Rob then was voted in as the new A.D. Finally, in late November of '98, Jorge announced he was once again 'retiring' from Rocky. Rob, who has been around since the Hillsborough theatre days, was voted Director & Jamie became our assistant director. Whew!

On November 8th, 1998, Interchangeable Parts went online when we got this web site set up (by me!)! In January of '99, we decided to drop the extra subtitle of the cast name and return to our original name of "Interchangeable Parts" without a subtitle. Rob called it quits in July '99 and the cast picked Ed and Jamie as co-directors. The position of stage manager was eliminated and replaced with Lead Props.

Sometime around April 2000, orders came down from corporate that Parkside would be closing immediately to be torn down so it can be rebuilt into a 20 theater megaplex. We didn't even get a farewell show, sniff. Coincidentally, a new cast called "The Back Row Players" started the next weekend 10 minutes from Parkside, so we all started going to see them. The theatre manager offered us a rotation with the other cast, so we shared The Beach Theatre with them until about mid-October when apparently the other cast disbanded, so now The Beach theatre is our new home.

Which leads us to today. As you can see, our history is always being made. Come to the show and help make it with us!