off my game

I just realized that I haven't blogged any of my Fairview Heights' adventures from the past week. To start off, I worked with Pat Dixon and Ty Barnett, both very funny guys and very nice too. On stage my sets were decent, but I think that since I had just finished a week opening in Bloomington I had a hard time transitioning to MC-ing. I messed up some of the announcements and generally did not pump up the crowd enough. Everyone in Westport told/tells/will tell me that as long as you get the announcements right, you won't have much trouble. Anyway, Wednesday we did a show for 19 people, and Ty had an amazing attitude about the whole thing, saying they could have gotten up and left when they saw the size of the rest of the audience. Thursday's crowd was huge, at least 150 people, and the rest of the shows for the week were really large, too. Anyway, Saturday, Ty gave me some very good advice about being more energetic and having the mentality of "if you don't come see this show, you're going to kick yourself". Anyway, when Joey paid me out for the week, she gave me some very good advice, about making a connection with the crowd (like by asking about birthdays and stuff) about really hyping up the feature and headliner, and about the wording of announcements. It all should seem like common sense stuff, but really alot was stuff that just didn't occur to me. In any case, it was a fun week and a learning experience.