In a cabaret style, a good ten different people performed their own personal acts on our stage: dancing, juggling, ukulele playing, guitar playing, magic tricks, hiphop rapping, singing. Spencer & I did the Card-to-Pocket with the Slo-Mo, and he ended the show with the straitjacket escape.
I got to do all the sound tech/music jazz for the Cirque du Soleil performers!! :-P
Those are my bragging rights. =)
It was a good, but super-busy, night at Illusions. Fortunately everyone was so very friendly & patient. ^_^
After closing @1am, Spencer & I were invited to hang out at a little dive near Canton/Fells Point with a few people from Cirque and of course we accepted. Fun times there. Great people.
I had a "Moment" with the first performer, a dancer/contortionist. As she danced, she turned sideways (relative to the audience & stage) and so was facing me who was sitting down behind the bar in my usual spot next to the stage (with her mp3 player in my hand). For 1-2 minutes straight she was looking me directly in the eye as she did her thing. I was smiling of course because I was enjoying her performance, and she was smiling, enjoying what she was doing. But in the locked-in eye contact, we had a "Moment." =)
Then you could see the quiver in each others' cheeks -- we were both trying not to laugh. She didn't want to break character of course, and I didn't want to make her!
Her song was "Happy Ending" by Mika:
This is the way you left me / I'm not pretending. / No hope, no love, no glory / No Happy Ending. / This is the way that we love / Like it's forever. / Then live the rest of our life / But not together.
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