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The next thing I wanna talk about is doing an opening number at your local pageant. When
you do an opening number, you wanna limit it to just you know a couple of minutes, few
minutes, don’t make it too long or drag it out so that the audience doesn’t get
bored and you wanna keep their interest any way. You wanna choose energetic, fun music
for the opening number, something that really gets the crowd going and gets the contestants
excited about being there. So make sure you choose a cute song, sometimes oldies are good
like Sugar Pie Honey Bunch or Shout. Some of Ray Charles music like Hit the Road Jack,
there's just all kinds of things that you can use but just make sure you keep it upbeat.
Also remind the contestants that they should always smile and keep eye contact with the
crowd or with the judges, that's very important to keep up with their confidence level. Finally
it’s important to allow the contestants to incorporate a unique style by wearing accessories.
I would encourage sunglasses. Now you wanna make sure that the sunglasses are not too
darkly tinted so they can still see where they're going onstage. And also you know,
say it’s a western thing, you can wear cowboy hat or I have a cute cowboy purse here and
you know, there is a few sparkles on it, so you know just allow the contestants to be
creative and to express their own personalities through that.