Once I worked at a restaurant called Molly Murphy’s, which featured a whole bunch of crazy, costumed waiters. For instance, there was Rasputin who used to jump on the tables, knocking some of the food over and almost giving the guests a heart attack. Another waiter specialized in karate moves, weaving cute, little katas and thunderous kicks and punches as he marched to his hungry customers, while carrying large platters of roast beef, onions, tomatoes and potatoes. Everyone had fun here, once they got in. But when it was winter, a lot of people stood out in the cold.
I played the part of a character called Ganymede Jones, a science fiction character I had independently developed in a science fiction radio show. My job was to entertain those folks who were outside in the cold and not in a very good mood. I’m afraid I just tried to make up jokes, but I was generally freezing and like my customers, not in a good mood. It would have been better if I could have moved around more - maybe picking out flowers out of little girl’s ears or doing coin tricks for my hungry customers as they stood out there in the cold. Well, maybe not coin tricks - because it was cold. Ah, maybe some large dice… and some wool handkerchiefs (are there such things?)
Another very crowded place with often-restless people are film festivals. This might be a great place to convince the film festival planners to keep their clients happy, especially when they are standing outside in the extreme heat or cold, waiting for a famous director to talk about his new film on the political dialogue of New York subway passengers, or seeing the first documentary on the sex life of the electric eel. But, instead of watching those delightful flicks, they are waiting, waiting… Give you any ideas?
Better, perhaps, would be inside the lobbies of restaurants or movie theaters, where you are warmer - and you can move close to the crowd and entertain them with coin or card tricks. And sometimes there are long waits here. Know a restaurant like that which is packed around 5:00 o’clock? People are there, bored, waiting for the hostess - maybe a California Pizza Kitchen or an Olive Garden? It can’t hurt to ask the manager if you could make that horrible waiting time a little bit more entertaining. It would bring them back and if they have kids…need I say more?
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