I know this may sound like a silly question but how do you know when your act is ready to launch on the general public? I've done a few performances with routines I've had help with but now I'm going it alone I cant help but worry that my acts arent quite polished enough. Any advice?

__________________
http://www.myspace.com/retrochick66 - Moonlight Desire on Myspace

ok, I'll just work myself into a bag of nerves

__________________
http://www.myspace.com/retrochick66 - Moonlight Desire on Myspace

Have you done enough practice so that you do everything nearly in time with the music? Is your costume ok? Is your music ok? Are you shoes ok? Have you practiced enough.....have you practised enough.....Have you......Are you beginning to see what I mean here?

Sweetheart, I stand for 2 hours every single day practicing magic................When I am about to go on stage or into the gig I am a bag of nerves, Do I look ok, IS my shpeil going to be ok, are there any shitheads in the audience, will I remmeber that new trick i have just spent $78 on and practiced for 80 hours to get right.

The funny thing is Moonlight, EVERY SINGLE TIME I do a gig everything falls apart BEFORE I walk on and then comes out alright during the gig. PRACTICE does this. Also, what are YOU worried about? 90% of the audience wouldn't kow if had made a mistake even if you gave them the script to read so don't worry about it. Just to prove the point, one night we went on stage at our regular haunt for the C&W people, we sang Lucille, not the "Little Richard" one, the other one from the 70's. Here are some of the words. With thanks to the "Baron Knights".

Lucille was a winner at the fancy dress dinner
She took first prize with a bow
I was a farmer and she was a charmer
Dressed like a cute Jersy cow.
As we walked home together, through the fields and the heather
We had had a good time and were full but,
We had been drinking and passed without thinking
A notice that said "BEWARE OF THE BULL"!

You picked a fine time to bend down Lucille
In your fancy costume you looked much to real
There was a cool hush, then we saw that bull rush
To him you had animal appeal and that's the last time that we saw Lucille.

Not one person in the audience or on the dance floor even knew we were singing the damn thing wrong!

You are going to be fab moonlight, honest, you will be

Thanks Michelle I guess its just bad nerves on my part as the act I wanted to do I cant because the corset wont be here in time so I've had to come up with something different and I'm such a worrier anyway I just need to go through it in my head some more I guess

__________________
http://www.myspace.com/retrochick66 - Moonlight Desire on Myspace