Making Connections: What's a Show without an Audience?

Time is ticking away faster and faster as the Senior Project Presentations draw nearer and nearer. I was just realizing that if I do this presentation it will have monumentally less meaning if nobody is there to watch it.

So, I’ve been advertising and thinking of ways to get people to come see my presentation. I thought of the connection this has with theatre, what’s a show without an audience?

Mr. Carol, the musical director of our LHS’ musicals once told us that you take a bow not to give the audience a chance to acknowledge, but for you to acknowledge them. You’re telling them that this show, and all the work you put into it was or them, and you thank them for coming to the show, and you hope that they enjoyed it.

I realized that my presentation is going to be a performance, and the important thing is to make sure that the audience enjoys every moment of it, and that if you’re performance has a message, which it should, you should make sure that your audience walks away having received that message. So, in the end, a show without an audience isn’t really a show at all.