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vinceconawayThere are a number of things I should be doing, but I'm not. I'm just kind of killing time around the house until it's time to get up in the morning and drive to Michigan. In my defense I originally scheduled today as a day off to give myself some recovery time between a lovely visit with Moira in DC and a weekend of faire, so I'm not really falling behind on anything. It just irks me that I'm not making much progress, either.
On the drive back from DC yesterday I started pondering the mechanics of building a show. I'm scheduled for one daily stage show at King Richard's Faire this fall, and I'm planning on doing things a bit differently. In the past I've treated stage shows as concentrated doses of my lane show, but I think actually giving it an arc and a plan might make it a lot more successful as a show.
Thankfully I've got a lot of templates to work with. Some of my closest friends are brilliant performers, and we've had numerous conversations about how shows do and don't work. Add to that several years of touring with the Aerial Angels (where I got to see new segments both successfully and unsuccessfully incorporated into the show as it has evolved) and I think I have a decent idea of how the basic concepts work. Now all that's left is figuring out how to apply them to a music show.
On the drive back from DC yesterday I started pondering the mechanics of building a show. I'm scheduled for one daily stage show at King Richard's Faire this fall, and I'm planning on doing things a bit differently. In the past I've treated stage shows as concentrated doses of my lane show, but I think actually giving it an arc and a plan might make it a lot more successful as a show.
Thankfully I've got a lot of templates to work with. Some of my closest friends are brilliant performers, and we've had numerous conversations about how shows do and don't work. Add to that several years of touring with the Aerial Angels (where I got to see new segments both successfully and unsuccessfully incorporated into the show as it has evolved) and I think I have a decent idea of how the basic concepts work. Now all that's left is figuring out how to apply them to a music show.
