Bittersweet Symphony

Today we performed our 25th show, 25 out of 50. That means that we are halfway to claiming our world record. Exciting, right?

Right, but excitement was not the primary emotion felt by the team today. You see, we are all a bit frustrated, everyone from the world record team to our small but mighty administrative team. We are struggling to get audiences for too many of our remaining shows. I've mentioned before that Guinness World Records does not require that we have an audience, but it is difficult to perform an interactive show when there is no one to interact with. I will amend that statement now to say that it is difficult to perform an interactive show for children when there are no children in the audience. It takes a lot of energy to perform a show (in addition to the energy spent moving and setting up all the kit), and usually a performer can keep his/her energy up by feeding off the energy of the audience. Without an audience (or children), a show can become really draining. When we're performing 50 shows in 50 days, we can't afford to lose our energy; too much has gone into this project already.

We are still excited about what we're doing and giving every show our very best, but we ask for your support. Pray for the whole team, especially Moira, as we continue to work to find audiences. Pray that schools will work with us to get their kids to see a show. Pray that we can stay focused on what really matters and not get too stressed about any particular thing. If you can think of anything else, by all means, pray for it too.