Finding The Funny - A Magician's Guide to Ad-libs, Improvisation, and Audience Interaction by Ryan Pilling

Finding The Funny; A Magician's Guide to Ad-libs, Improvisation, and Audience Interaction.Learn the techniques to creating inspired moments of comedy, and engaging your audience with the spark of spontaneity.This book is about that thing we call "Stage Presence." Some performers try to manufacture stage presence through repetition and rehearsal, to have a polished act, but it can become robotic. They often miss the part about being present. To interact with your audience implies two-way communication. You can't just stick to the script. You must listen and respond on your feet.Live performance is about creating a one-of-a-kind experience happening right here, right now, never to be seen again. It seems like lightning strikes to create these special moments, but there are skills and strategies you can learn to raise your antenna and invite the lighting to strike more often than not."Finding the Funny is like its author: deceptively modest, but actually precise and thoughtful and pullin