Getting up on stage and speaking is a difficult and demanding thing to do. It’s also hard to know how what you are doing up there on stage is perceived by the audience. Malcolm Matson, OPLAN Foundation, on stage at eComm2009 / ©2009 James Duncan Davidson Please deliver your speech to the crowd, not the screen. This was directed at those speakers that pace from one end of the stage and back to the other at rather high speed. Stages have edges. MORE

Also, too many human beings melt under the stage lights. I watch bemused a former client, a Millennial, chasing celebrity.  Earlier this month he was on a business progam on television. MORE

I was also responsible for giving each of them a quick visual check before they took the stage. The badges needed to come off because the stage lighting tended to reflect off the plastic holders and the flashing could be distracting for the audience. MORE

Handwriting and stage lights don’t mix, and “A leading expert on hedge funds” will turn into “A leering waxer of hedgehogs.”. Well, hello! Have I mentioned how great I am at pretty much everything? Talented. Sophisticated. Charming. And devilishly good looking as well. MORE

Give the organizers of the event instructions which will help them set up the stage, lights and sound to give your act a fighting chance. Hopefully you’re aware of how bad the situation will be BEFORE you take the stage. If necessary step off the stage. If things are going poorly, shorten your set and get off the stage. After reading the post Don’t Sing Opera To Wrestling Fans , TJ Walker writes: “Great points about venue selection. MORE

I was the first teller on stage; what a relief! First, there was a fixed mic on a stand in the middle of the stage, and we were not allowed to remove it or walk around the stage, for the purposes of videotaping. Another thing that was strange for me: Stage lighting! MORE

Does humor play best with the lights up…or with the lights down? You have two areas of concern for lighting. First, the lighting for the stage or the performance area. And second, the lighting for the audience area. We also need to recognize that sometimes you can control the lighting, sometimes you can’t. For example, if you’re performing in a comedy club, it’s unlikely you’ll have much control over the lights. MORE

In that regard, it makes what I do that much more appealing as a career, if I wasn’t doing it on a stage I would be telling friends over dinner. If I am adding something new to my existing show, it usually develops through improvisation on stage or forethought of a story/bit that I throw in when the time seems right. I was very excited to be on the stage I performed high school plays in. Second, the stage lights had been sent off to be cleaned. MORE

Spellbinding costumes, staging, lights, and an incredible corps of dancers commanded the stage, leaving me more breathless than the performers. I admit that I had never seen Lady Gaga speak until last night when I tuned in to 60 Minutes. MORE

There was an electrician, for example, who spent about a minute poking a gadget into one of the electrical sockets on my study wall before giving the crew the ‘all clear’ to set up the camera and lighting. How many electricians does it take to light a theatre? MORE