Soo... I'm feeling a bit better. I won't go into detail right now but the depression had me pretty bad for a while. One thing that is helping is to cut back on the WoW (World of Warcraft) and go for the real live things out there that I enjoy but in which take more faith to engage. I don't mean religious faith... I mean the faith of someone who has depression and other more serious psychological concerns.
Anyhoo... I decided to join Disha and Michelle for a girls' night out to see a musical in West Vancouver - Offenbach’s Orpheus: Gone to Hell!
First off, the audience participation was so weak that the actors' energy just plummeted. I think that the audience was either too polite to clap at anything but at the end major singing numbers - like one would at a more formal venue - or they didn't get the jokes and minor heroics strewn throughout the performance. I was so bored with the lack of energy before the intermission that I considered leaving (but I drove two other people so that wouldn't have worked).
However, during intermission I decided to take matters into my own hands. I clapped for little highs, and giggled for the plentiful jokes, and even whistled during a very sexy number. This seemed to nudge the rest of the audience to participate more (with more clapping and laughing) and brightened up the actors. Now, part of my personality disorder is to doubt my effect on people or to completely inflate my impact on strangers. But I'm hoping that I did have the right effect here. No matter what, I had more fun when I participated more.
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It was interesting to read your experience at Orpheus gone to hell!. It was a strange run, people either loved it or hated it. The audiences were so mixed, one night we'd have great interaction, lots of laughter etc.. the next, nothing. Had you come the night before the audience was very fun and there was great interaction between audience and cast.
Thanks for jumping in and participating, it makes a huge difference to the cast when someone in the audience can break the ice and loosen up the audience...
Glad have the feedback! Thank you!!
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