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Hi, I’m back, Les McGehee from Plays Well With Others, the guy in the orange shirt juggling
the weird stuff. How’re you doing? We are talking about improv show prep and this segment
and this segment is going to be on introducing the show. The pre-show moments are very important;
if you’re in your own theater maybe you have a lot of control over that. If you’re
playing at a comedy club or a professional theater you probably have a lot of control
over that. If you’re a guest in someone else’s comedy club or theater, well it can
be a little bit trickier, but there’s a few things in common; I think common sense
is the main driver here. Before the audience is showing up, did you notice walking into
the place, is there anything that’s going to make it *** your customers to know
what’ going on? And then, when you walked into the room, what was the temperature like?
It’d better be cold when you walk into the room, because if it’s not cold, when your
audience gets in there and fills it all up; with laughing and drinking and chatting with
each other, it’s going to get really warm and when they turn those lights on, I’d
say on a professional lit stage, it’s maybe ten degrees warmer than it is in the audience
so if it wasn’t cold when you walked in there before they set the audience, it’s
going to be uncomfortable for your audience when the show is on. And you just might politely
kind of catch that, whether you’re managing the theatre or not.