Introvert Audience Participation

 

I went to an excellent theater showing down in D.C. recently, but it started unexpectedly with some audience participation for which my group of introverts was happy to not get selected. I have to prepare beforehand when interaction is a possibility. It was a full theater but I was not about to draw 100+ figures for this comic. Though that would have been an interesting perspective, showing all the others excitedly looking for the ticket while the group of introverts is like NOPE gonna hand this off to an extrovert.

Text:
Title: Introverts
MC: Everyone look under your seat to find who has the golden ticket to come up on stage!
C: I better not find a ticket.
L: I did not come prepared for audience participation. 

Stage Isn't Set

 

My pastor was explaining a passage and said that the first few verses were setting the stage for the three-part sermon and this comic sprang to mind.  Jello can take a while to set - I have no clue how long a whole stage floor would take (obviously it would depend on the size of the stage and the temperature of the room - it would need to be fairly chilly). 

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A: You covered the entire floor in JELLO?!?!?!
S: Don't go out there! The stage isn't ... set. :)

Percy Jackson Musical

  So a few weeks ago, we went to see a musical "The Lightning Thief", about the first book in the Percy Jackson series, which is about Greek mythology set in current times. The musical was very creative, had only 7 actors playing all the roles with minimal props and sets, and did a good summary of the entire book in two hours.

 The main actors, Percy and Annabeth, played only their roles since they were in nearly every scene. And they did a great job! The actor for Grover also played Mr. D, which worked because usually one of them was in a scene. The other four members of the cast played everyone else, and had a creative enough wardrobe to differentiate between the characters.

 The set pieces were very minimal but creative - you had to use your imagination for some (there was a piece of rolling scaffolding that was everything from an elevator to a bus to really anything that moved) but the actors made it believable. 

 It definitely helped to have read the books to fully understand what all was happening, and I saw a lot of fans in the audience (orange t-shirts, PJ books, etc). It was a one weekend only show in the Kennedy Center, but it was in a side theater not the main huge one. I highly enjoyed my afternoon!

Modern Major General

A great song.

Stealing the Limelight

Now I want a limelight.