Rehearsals are Sunday at 2pm and Tuesdays at 6:30 - and today was the first Sunday rehearsal. It was fun although 2.5 hours was longer than I thought it should be. My idea is to spork people to motivate them, then release them into the wild to develop their acts a bit, then after 2 rehearsals for each time set a list of acts to be performed (however badly) at the next rehearsal to get input and put the fear of G'al into 'em. Kain is off in a rl opera and won't be available until later. Several people have been suspiciously quiet, but if we have all the people from Tuesday plus all the Sunday folk we will be all right.
Today Salazar and I accidentally developed a snake charmer act and a writer is writing the mc patter and some basic ideas. Jen, who kept crashing, may yet develop her loathed mime act, Cy was working on an r/c motorcycle jump, Ida has several acts including comedy with Theo, synchronised knitting is requiring a lot - I made a new animation and almost finished a new unicycle and we haven't even found a simple pattern to drill to yet, Candide is doing electrocution as entertainment. Tuesday - burlesque dancer, "Duet on Ice" for one (I spent ages yesterday making a death spiral anim* that causes serious laughter, at least in me), the m.c., magic. Not shown yet - bareback hippo rider, strongman, ventriloquist, puppet, fire-eater. I sort of want dancers with pennants ( a la totalitarian displays of healthy exercise).

*I'm new to the X-Y movement - just done two animations using it, but it's groovy. I got a bit confused by having the XY plotter start to overlap the frames - so it would switch to the frame. It took me a minute to realise what was going on. The first time I was going to upload the anim was rotating about the wrong point, and I suddenly realised I hadn't added the reference frame - glad I "knew" what the trouble was as I might've ruined the entire thing trying to make it work correctly without the first frame (impossible).

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