fandomhigh | How to Be an Entertainer Workshop #2, Caritas, 05.31.06, Afternoon

GOB stood up on stage and began to speak when the group was assembled. "Okay, kids, last week you picked out your entrance music. So today, we're going to start with you taking the stage to it and introducing yourself. You might be wondering why you didn't you introduce yourself last week. That's because last week you were nobody. This week, you have entrance music. That gives you the potential to be somebody."

"Give your music selections to Mr. Tino over there and prepare to make a grand entrance. Your entrance is what makes you a star. When you come on stage, you have to own the stage. Dance moves, quick illusions, taking your pants off, whatever you have to do to get the audience under your thrall." Tino whispered something to GOB. "Good call, Tino. Don't take your pants off during a school-sponsored workshop. Own the stage without losing any clothing. And if you can own the stage successfully, the audience is your whore. So have the band play your music, try to make us your whore, and tell us a little about yourself."

"When we're all done with that, we're going to focus on improv comedy. You'll pair up with whoever, get up there, and try to make me laugh. If I laugh, you'll get a free drink from the bar!" Tino leaned over and whispered something. "Really? Fine. Mr. Tino wants me to let you know that it should be something non-alcoholic. Mr. Tino here says that if I give you free booze, the school might have problems with that. Personally, I think he's being a jerk, but I like you nobodies enough that I'm not going to risk getting pulled from the class."

"Okay, let me go and introduce myself, then you can follow suit."

[OOC: OCD ~~coming up~~ is up. Will reply throughout the day at work.]

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Gather, find a partner, discuss what you're going to do, and chat.

After doing his grand entrance, Jamie sits back and wonders who he should partner with.

Nadia leaned over towards him. "I think you win just for the sock puppet."

Jamie nodded in agreement. "When in doubt? Always go for the sock puppets. It's a universal thing. Want to team up for the improv thing?"

Nadia shrugged. "Sure. Sounds like fun."

"Any ideas on what we can do?" Jamie asked.

"Snark at each other? Or maybe a cheesy romance scene? I don't know."

"No cheesy romance. I barely avoided a malleting yesterday because of First Aid class. I'm not tempting fate by having Mr. Butler guy serve me poisoned food."

"I'm pretty sure he just spikes the food with hot peppers." Nadia shrugged. "So, snark at each other, then? Or do we want to do something like a variation of 'who's on first'?"

"Nah we'll just stick to the snarking. We'll introduce each other and just riff from there."

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After doing his entrance Peter sat a table. He was breathing heavily because of all the acrobatics he had to do up there.

"Are you okay, dude?" Greg asked, mildly worried.

John sits and waits for a potential partner.

"You want to be my partner," Joxer said with a gesture. "I can just tell by the way you're standing. You want to partner with the Mighty."

John grins but nods. "Sure, let's do it!"

"So, we just get up there and do this whole thing all sudden, right?" Joxer rubbed the back of his neck. "Let's let someone else go first."

"Looks like," John says. "Improv comedy. Hmmm....we could do an impression of him?"

"Would he find that funny?" Joxer boggled. GOB didn't seem like the type to laugh at himself.

"I'm...not sure," John answers honestly. "Any other ideas? I'm kinda tapped for ideas today."

"We could always pretend to fight and hurl ridiculous insults at each other?"

"That...might be okay," John says with a nod. "Make the insults really bad and make the falls really dramatic?"

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Kawalsky looked around for a partner.

River stared back at Kawalsky.

Kawalsky looked behind him to make sure he was the one being stared at, then approached her. "Hi. I'm Charlie."

"I'm River," River said. "So what do we do?"