Well I have no idea how many
people I have performed in front of but it's definitely not enough to pay me well enough
to quit my crappy day job...
BUT my biggest brush with fame (so far) was the time I was one of the openers for Sister
Sledge at the Dayton Convention Center during Gay Pride. Not so impressive when you
consider that it was just a few years ago ('97 or '98) and SS was not at their height of
popularity. Add to that, it was actually only Baby Sledge (Kathy, I think) performing
under the name of SS. Still, it was a sea of faces... none of them wanted to see me.
Ah, well. They'll be sorry once I'm a Supah-Stah!
K
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Kimberly Blue
"The Church says the earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the
shadow on the moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." - Ferdinan
Magellan
Posts:
79 | From: Dayton, Ohio USA | Registered: Oct 2002 |
According to the University, the
seating capacity of Arizona Stadium is 57,803. But -- as anyone who follows college
football will probably have guessed -- I don't think I've ever played to a packed house.
-Tabby
the princess with claws
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If you don't appreciate the irony, the irony appreciates.
"Sappiness and medieval violence: it's a wonderful combination. Like chocolate and
peanut butter for the mind." -me on my fantasy novel-in-progress
How many people watch University
Challenge? I was on that last year (almost a year ago in fact, eep how time flies) so
that's my biggest audience. (Of course, they were all tuning in to see ME ) There were only about 100 people actually physically
present at the time though.
The picture in my profile is certainly me, although i don't *really* look like that
anymore (dyed my hair, lost some weight etc.) I might update it, then everyone can tell me
how beautiful I am. Here is a recent picture
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Ahead, groove factor five! My live journal
Hmm. You aren't really japanese by
any chance are you, Rose? It's just that I get that impression from that picture, and I
never realized before just how japanese you look.
Crowley
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Democracy is not handed out from above but fought for from below.
Posts:
166 | From: Despair To Where? | Registered: Oct 2003
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Originally posted by Roses are
Red: How many people watch University Challenge? I was on that last year (almost a year
ago in fact, eep how time flies) so that's my biggest audience. (Of course, they were all
tuning in to see ME ) There were only about 100 people actually
physically present at the time though.
The picture in my profile is certainly me, although i don't *really* look like that
anymore (dyed my hair, lost some weight etc.) I might update it, then everyone can tell me
how beautiful I am. Here is a recent picture
I know I was disappointed when the
broadcast got postponed. I was in the UK when it was originally scheduled to be on and
would have only been watching to see you.
Well, okay, also to see Jeremy Paxman, who come to think of it would have skewered Kyoko
right into the ground if she had ever tried to debate with him.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill
Posts:
3523 | From: Canada | Registered: Nov 2001 |
Since we are all whipping out our
crowds and comparing them (hey, I'm a girl -- that's the extent of my whipping out), I
sang the Nation Anthem at a Sacramento Kings game in Arco Arena a couple of years ago.
Lotsa fun, but I couldn't tell you the crowd size. It was pretty full, but it felt like a
million. I couldn't really see anything, and the whole time I was thinking, "Omigod,
I am so flat, I can hear it, everyone is wincing..." IT was by far the most nerve
racking performance ever for me.
I usually stick to theatre, even though I've been trying my hand at (don't laugh) opera
lately. There's just something about connecting with an audience... I think the biggest
theatre crowd I've ever performed for was a couple hundred a couple of summers ago at a
Shakespeare festival in Lake Tahoe.
Only did one band gig, and it was to replace a singer in a cover band (one of those
"help a friend out" things). To those who play regularly, I salute you. It was
incredibly different than anything I have ever done.
Happen to be any low-carb cookies around here?
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So we stayed on the train admiring the time
As the lights of the city drew near
We drank a little wine
Posts:
181 | From: Pasadena, CA | Registered: May 2003 |
Originally posted by Gg83: I want to be in the Church of the Clueless too! I've already converted quite a few
of my friends (are non-snopesters allowed to be members?
I haven't a clue!
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"The large print givith, and the small print taketh away"
Tom Waites, Step Right Up
Posts:
2045 | From: Idiot City, Vromania | Registered: Feb 2000
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Originally posted by Gg83: I want to be in the Church of the Clueless too! I've already converted quite a few
of my friends (are non-snopesters allowed to be members?
I haven't a clue!
I'd say so. If anything, I believe
that there are more Clueless people in the general population than there are here.
Nonny
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A soul-scarred smuggler who flinches from all physical contact asks an empathic alien to
help her heal--by becoming her lover.
I once sang to a packed house of
thirty thousand. Of course, by the time I reached the first chorus, there were only seven
people left, and they were all deaf.
Brad "what's in the bucket? My tune, of course!" from Georgia
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"Friday the thirteenth come on a Friday this month--urk!"--Walt Kelly
Originally posted by Nonny Mouse
Wrote the eBook of Love:
quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Winston
O'Boogie:
quote:
Originally posted by Gg83: I want to be in the Church of the Clueless too! I've already converted quite a few
of my friends (are non-snopesters allowed to be members?
I haven't a clue!
I'd say so. If anything, I believe
that there are more Clueless people in the general population than there are here.
Nonny
I don't think so. Sure there are
lots and lots of people in the general population who don't have a clue, but to become a
member of the Church of the Clueless you have to know you don't have a clue.
*pants* having finally gotten to
the end of this thread (though I'm sure someone else is adding a bead or two as I'm
writing)... I came to a Great Realization.
This is an noitaitini thread. That is, it's an initiation thread in reverse! It started
out as a door slam and then disguised itself--which is why we have very few newbies here
yet.
In honor of this, I brought some Mirror Cookies. Big pieces of chocolate with little chips
of dough in them.
Heroic Muse
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"This, my body and spirit, is the end of the quest." - Ayn Rand
"Don't you know that we're the movers, we're the shakers? We're the names in
tomorrow's papers." - Stephen Sondheim
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343 | From: Earthbound (for now) in Los Angeles | Registered: Oct
2002 |
As I said, I never performed in
front of as many as 3000 people. I have, however, played to packed houses for some of my
musicals. That usually amounted to a few hundred people.
I also performed songs from "Threepenny Opera," "The Fantasticks," and
"Schoolhouse Rock Live!" at the Fine Arts Fiesta to promote local theatres'
productions one year, again in front of a few hundred people.
The funny part was that I a) did a song I wasn't in for 3PO, and b) wasn't even in
"The Fantasticks." For the former, I stood in for the guy who played the
narrator, and the latter hadn't been cast yet.
The guy I replaced joked that they should've called it "An Evening With Brad
Williams" since it seemed like I did every song that night.
I've never really counted crowds before, but I have performed for a few hundred people
during high school productions - and that was definetely and ensemble deal.
Unless you count my smashing a watermelon on stage for Gallagher in 2001. That was
probably over a thousand...a thou...
HOLY CRAP! I SMASHED A WATERMELON IN FRONT OF A THOUSAND PEOPLE?!
*faint*
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"One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings." -- Diogenes
"There's a big chocolate nugget at the center of the earth!" -- Me, English
Class
Posts:
1232 | From: Florida, USA | Registered: Feb 2002 |
I was in a high school production
of "Life With Father." I played Annie, the maid who quits in act I scene I. I
didn't have any lines, but I did get to stomp across the stage with a suitcase. There were
maybe 200 people in the audience. But wait: The play ran for 4 nights. So multiply 200 by
4 and you get....800! I played a bit part in a high school play for 800 people!!!! Yay
me!!!
24kKate
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This isn't just the joy of freedom, or of being fully alive, but the piercing joy that
comes with the awareness of that holy,playful Presence.
Dean Koontz
RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure!
Posts:
757 | From: One Door Away From Heaven | Registered: Nov 2002
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I was on tv. You may remember the
show "Real People." Well, in October, 1983, they filmed my science fiction
club's Halowe'en Masquerade. I was on national tv in a skin-tight blue superhero outfit!
Light blue chest, arms, legs, dark blue trunks, boots, gloves, and mask, with a blue
ostrich feather on top. The name of the character is "The Blue Boob."
Thank God for the mask...
Silas
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There are tales of little greenies
told by Turks to Vietnamese,
told by kids to scare their mommies,
by Haoles to Malahinis.
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7966 | From: San Diego, CA, USA | Registered: Sep 2000
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Kate, I like your logic! If you go
by your logic, then I have played softball for 17 years in front of crowds anywhere from
20 to 150 people. (20 in the early years, 150 in the later ones).
So, if you calculate 80 games in the 5 early years at 20 people each = 1,600 people.
Then if you calculate the next 6 years with about 40 games per bobby-sox season (including
all-stars) with about 40 people watching per game, we are talking about 9,600 people.
Then you calculate 2 different leagues for the next 6 years. One league had about 40 games
per season, and the other had 2 games per Sunday for 8 months each year, not counting
tournaments. So, there is 2x4x8 = 64. 64+40 = 104 games per year. I estimate about 60
people watching per game. So, 104x60x6 = 37,440 people.
If you add in an average of 3 big tournaments a year for the last 6 years, with an average
of 5 games per tournament, with an average of 150 people watching per game, you have
3x6x5x150 = 13,500 people.
SO, I have played softball in front of about 62,140 people!!! Holy crap!!! And this
is a conservative number!!!!
nof "hee hee hee" tessa
** By the way, I don't care that these 62,140 people probably consist of a lot of the same
people. This is my 15-minute claim to fame.
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Kiss Me. Love me. I like you. Lover-boy.
Posts:
306 | From: San Diego, CA | Registered: May 2003 |
I played softball for 5
years...ummm...oh-got one! I was in band for 8 years and choir for two! So.....about 20
preformances for band altogether with around 100-200 people per preformance...can't count.
But it's a lot!
Morrigan
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Sittin' here, readin' my heart out waitin', waitin' for some lover to call...
Michael Ball-Live At the Royal Alber Hall
Posts:
652 | From: Michigan | Registered: Mar 2001 |
Originally posted by All Rebochan
Needs is Love: ROFL, Fourth!
I've never really counted crowds before, but I have performed for a few hundred people
during high school productions - and that was definetely and ensemble deal.
Unless you count my smashing a watermelon on stage for Gallagher in 2001. That was
probably over a thousand...a thou...
HOLY CRAP! I SMASHED A WATERMELON IN FRONT OF A THOUSAND PEOPLE?!
*faint*
Let me second ROFL. However you
realize now that you posted that pic Kyowhatever will probably snag it and use it in a
story on her new message board homes.
I've helped Ron Gallagher set up. Sadly there was no audience... but I got to listen to
Ron complain on how his brother had people to do this stuff for him. (I was asked to go
across the street to buy watermellons)
I was once on a local (not my local) morning TV show where I proved to the south central
Fl audience that I couldn't spell the word that means fear of the number 13. If I couldn't
spell it with a teleprompter I'm not going to try and spell it now. That's probably my
biggest public humilation. (If you ignore the clown clips that made the local, my local,
news)
ETA: Hey we're snopesters here so go easy on me. I was once on stage with the Amazing
Kreskin in front of a sold out auditorium. I have a good reason
for it though. I was trying to scope out the audience to find a date. Yes I sold out to
the man in the name of looking for love, sue me.
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"The more you love, the more you can love -- and the more intensely you love. Nor is
there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all
of that majority who are decent and just."
Heinlein
I was in a high school production
of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and we performed for about 500
people a night, so I guess that's be about 1500 in all I performed* in front of.
*Actually, I didn't really sing... I had walking pneumonia, and instead of staying home
like a sane person, I went onstage and lip-synched all three nights. Fortunately I was in
the chorus, so no one really noticed.
Then my boyfriend dumped me... but it was backstage, and to the best of my knowledge it
didn't turn me gay.
Tor "horsie's still twitchin'...hand me a bigger club" cha
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"Trumpy! You can do STUPID things!"
Posts:
342 | From: The Mean Streets of Appleton, WI | Registered: Mar 2003
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Originally posted by bird: I don't know if this has been said or not, but this is 23 pages long and I haven't
read it all, but this thread reminds me of the "I'm a thread killer" thread.
Yeah, I said that earlier. Didn't
succeed in killing it, though!
If you can't beat 'em....
Alexina
Posts:
925 | From: Tunnel of Love | Registered: May 2002 |
Since we seem to have lost the
topic of this thread can I ask where I can find a free photo host site? I know there was a
thread about it not lonng ago but I did a couple searches and couldn't find it. PNavy is
eating up my pics at an alarming rate. Sorry for the hijack.
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"The more you love, the more you can love -- and the more intensely you love. Nor is
there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all
of that majority who are decent and just."
Heinlein
Originally posted by Chimera: Since we seem to have lost the topic of this thread can I ask where I can find a
free photo host site? I know there was a thread about it not lonng ago but I did a couple
searches and couldn't find it. PNavy is eating up my pics at an alarming rate. Sorry for
the hijack.
Originally posted by Chimera: Since we seem to have lost the topic of this thread can I ask where I can find a
free photo host site? I know there was a thread about it not lonng ago but I did a couple
searches and couldn't find it. PNavy is eating up my pics at an alarming rate. Sorry for
the hijack.
I see one's been suggested
already, but just to give you some options, Photo Bucket
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Cthulhu for President: Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
Posts:
3338 | From: the cabbage patch | Registered: Aug 2000
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Correct me if I'm wrong, and I'm
sure you will but didn't Four Kitties make the 800th post?
tag
Eidt: Darn it, I hate when I get distracted. I came into this thread to say I made
Kendra's Whipped Shortbread cookies. Thank you for the recipe, Kendra!
*flinging shortbread cookies in the air*
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Explore, enjoy and protect the planet
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5820 | From: Michigan | Registered: Mar 2000 |
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