The Act
Drawing from our ever increasing wealth of existing material, we build a set list that aligns with your objective, fits with your culture, and is on target for your audience. For example, for audiences that travel a lot, we do our “Air Travel Medley” including “Flying In Economy” (sung to the tune of Leaving On A Jet Plane) and “De-Lay” (Harry Belafonte’s Day-O). For sales audiences, we might do “Nowhere Close To My Quota” (Somewhere Over the Rainbow) and “We Are the Sales Reps” (We Are the Champions). For audiences that spend a lot of time dealing with technology we’ll include our IT medley, which speaks to anyone ever held captive by a help line (“And Hold Please”), who has pretended to understand an IT guy (“The I.T. Cowboy”), or found themselves judged by how many words a minute they can type with their thumbs (“Blackberry”). Where possible, language can be added to introductions and existing numbers that speaks directly to the audience.
We’ve done shows of almost any length. We recommend that an evening show be approximately 45-50 minutes and an afternoon performance be 35-40. We’ve kicked off events with a 10-minute teaser and then come back after dinner to do a full set. We can also break the performance into smaller segments performed between educational sessions or keynotes to keep things from getting too dry. The final decision is, of course, yours.
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