Last week I was chatting with an artist friend of mine, Joe Maller, about my current audition set (which you can see on my recordings page). Joe is both a creative genius and a tech genius, perceptive and intuitive. His insights never cease to absolutely blow me away. I wanna be Joe when I grow up. He pointed out something subtle but significant about the set.
There used to be a complicated transition between my Utah jokes and my computer jokes that set up a major change in persona. The theme was "from reviled to revered" and made the point that the things for which I was persecuted for in my childhood, being gay and a nerd, are now things that are cool and valued in society (to a point and in NYC, anyway). This has been cut down to a one line pithy segue. This is great for time, but has creating a sudden, jarring shift from "feel-my-pain" victim to condescending "know-it-all" with no warning.
I was thinking of trying to put some of the transition back in to address this, then realized I can fix it with something incredibly simple. If I do "dumb questions" before I do the "being a consultant" bit the shift in tone will be more gradual. Suffering dumb questions still has a component of victimization to it, but starts building towards the arrogance of the consultant stuff.
It's nice when, every now and then, a problem turns out to have an easy solution.
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