This past friday, a bunch of us from TBA Theatre were performing at the Barnes' & Noble Haryy Potter event. The B&N folks knew that people would be lining up to get their books promptly after midnight, so they planned a number of events.
Elle arranged for the Illusions crew to come out and paint faces, juggle, perform magic, just generally jump around, and other wise entertain the folks. I was the emcee for the costume contest.
There was a contest each hour, with the winners of those hourly contests coming back at the end for the grand prize: the right to be first in line to get their book (Oh, and a $100 gift certificate). I was too keep the crowd excited, and announce the folks, and generally keep things moving along. By all accounts I did great. Channel 2 news was there several times, we even got a live feed on the 10 o'clock! They did this during the costume contest, so I'm sure I can be heard, if not seen.
Channel 2 did come back later, and film some more. There is an article here, with some video. I'm in the video, and quoted in the article. The best part is that in both I'm referred to as: Frank Delaney, TBA Theater. There is also some footage of a Dementor (Which I believe is Dave Fink, I know he was playing that part but I don't know if he is the one in the video). So not only did the event go well, everybody loved us, but we got some good publicity with out name on TV!
I sound a little rough in the video, because I was getting pretty dehydrated. I was chugging water like crazy but sometimes it just isn't enough.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
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