Next: The Intro
After the three digit “prediction”, my opening statement is the “Official” welcome.
While they’re still getting a grasp of what’s just happened, I call out “THAT’S what tonight is all about!”, and proceed from there.
One of my primary joys is working with words, so much of anything I do is heavily scripted. The scripts are flexible (many routes to choose from), but almost everything that could possibly be said has been rehearsed multiple times. For this segment, there are no branches.
“Psychic...Mentalist...Mind-Reader...whatever you choose to call it, the idea of someone who is able to pull the very thoughts from our minds...is a frightening proposition. We like to believe that our thoughts are private...sacred, if you will...the last stronghold of solitude. But it may be that in the realm of the mind...there is nothing sacred...”
I can see the attitudes transforming as this monologue is delivered. Faces become alert and thoughtful, hands fold in on each other, even postures become more erect. One day I want to get a tape of this, because it’s an amazing thing to watch, from my perspective.
Don’t know how much of this change to attribute to my own personal stage presence, or to the words themselves, but I actually kind of enjoy it. (Maybe a little megalomaniac showing through!)
At any rate, this tells me that they’re keying in, so without giving even a second’s pause, I point to an individual (calling them by name if I know it), and begin The Zener Board.
…tomorrow…