Get ready for whores and hooligans.

Tonight at midnight, "hooligans and whores" will mingle with students.

Reefer Madness, Quadramics' 35th annual Spring Fling musical, opened last night at the Iron Gate Theater. For the fourth year, the show will be performed tonight at midnight immediately following the Fling concert on Franklin Field.

Quadramics gave their first midnight performance in 2005 with The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Because the midnight showing of Rocky Horror was such a hit, it became a tradition every year, Reefer Madness co-producer and College sophomore E.J. Baker explained. Attendees don costumes and are treated to a pre-show performance.

"It was the Rocky tradition that we were bringing to [the Fling musical]," College senior and Reefer Madness set-designer Gisela Garrett said. Now the tradition has been adopted by Quadramics. "It means that people are not only excited about the show, but they're excited about the group."

Wharton senior, Reefer Madness stage manager and Quadramics chairwoman Jontae McCoy said Quadramics continues to perform a midnight musical because of an increasing student demand.

McCoy, who has been involved in every Quadramics show since her freshman year, including the first midnight musical, said she feels old having watched the midnight show turn into a Fling tradition but is proud to be a part of that progression.

The midnight show is the most popular and usually lasts twice as long, Baker said. "The energy level is just through the roof."

It is "the one night the entire theater community comes," College junior Nadia Mikhail, who plays Sally in the show, said. She described her experience in last year's midnight musical Batboy as unlike anything she had ever experienced before.

College freshman and director Ben Grinberg suggested Reefer Madness for this year's Fling musical. Although he was in the show over the summer, he said this rendition was written specifically for Fling at Penn.

Written in the late 1990s, the musical is a parody of a 1936 "morality film" of the same name that warned parents of the dangers of marijuana, Grinberg explained.

In the musical, marijuana is said to be "turning all our children into hooligans and whores."

No show fits Fling more perfectly, Baker said. "This is all about sex, drugs and rock and roll."

The pre-show will feature a theme of "hooligans and whores," and the actors will serve drinks in a five-and-dime setting, Baker said. "We're thinking of having a munchies-eating contest, maybe whipped cream body shots up on stage."

Students are encouraged to dress to match the theme.

The show's finale itself will be a spectacle, complete with "different types of confetti and a patriotic Les Mis-esque march number and tap-dancing prisoners," Grinberg said.

Grinberg added that as a freshman he has heard legends but isn't quite sure what to expect with the midnight performance.

"It's definitely an experience," Baker said. "Kind of a time to break the rules."

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