Family Show Forum

Well, I have a show coming up next week that has an unusual twist to it.  Usually I perform my fundraising shows in the evening when parents and kids come together.  I like my show and am proud of the family value and fun for all ages type show we do, leaving the four letter words and innuendos for some other performers to deal with.

This time the principal of the school has called for the show to be at 2:30 in the afternoon.  right after school lets out.  The school is a K-8 school so there will be more little ones and less parents to provide guidance. We will go for it, but it will be a new experience for me.

We I did the show.  It was a bit better attended than the last show I did at that venue, and as a result I made a little more money.  I am not complaining.

At one point I took off my jacket.  This was in preparation for my straitjacket escape.  I threw my jacket onto the curtain as though it was a coat rack.  The jacket of course fell to the floor.  I started yelling at the jacket for falling, and giving it a hard time.  At this point a fellow perform sneaked up along side the curtain on the audience's blind side and stuck up to fingers.  I picked up my jacket, threw it again, and this time it hung up as though on an invisible coat rack.  It was a great site gag that the audience loved.

No, it wasn't planned.  It sure was funny though.  I wasn't even planning th throw my jacket on the curtain until the last minute.