“Boom...Ting!”

Our last garage day with Tom Tom today (he goes at the end of the week). 

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Today we played the ‘greatest love scene’.

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“Don’t forget us!”

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Nicko and I got up together and I started by placing my hand over my chest and doing a heart beat gesture whilst saying “boom boom, boom boom.” After I did that Nicko shouted “Ting!” We got a laugh. Tried again, another laugh. So we started playing more. Me having fun to change the rhythm of the musical boom-booms and be silly with my body. Tom Tom helped a bit and suggested I could go really far with it, whilst Nicko’s job was to stand still and wait for the right time to say “Ting!” (often not quite on the beat). 

It was really great. The audience were laughing away and we were really with them. I was focusing on just being with the audience and Nicko, and it worked. Really simple. I’d like to try and present this again as a number. The challenge will be in the beginning - in building the game with the audience - because once we’ve got that then we can just go for it. I guess that’s the same for everything in clown. Getting the audience to love you, and then after that you can go go go.