How do you do walk arounds?

[claratheclown]

I was wondering, and of course im not ready for this, but i was wondering, how do you get to do walk arounds? Im just curious and i want to do them someday. (for the record i'm dressed as a clown right now, it's my holloween costume that i made, i thought it would be good practice for my make-up and its helping me get a clown costume and character together without my parnets finding out what im up to, hehehe :wink: ) I dont think they would want me to be a clown.

[Scruffy]

Walkarounds are usually done during parades.Generally in the Circus,they are done during the " Come in". This is the time when the patrons are finding their seats.Traditionally the circus would open an hour before the show actually started and the clowns would be out in the audience .It was also away to keep the crowds entertained before the show started.
You can also do walkarounds if you are a "Strolling" clown. For example at a festival, carnival,or any type of outdoor event; you walk around entertaining people. Walk arounds depend pretty heavily on sight gags and are ment to be quick. When you are a strolling clown you are supposed to keep moving.Show your gag and keep moving.

[Gilbert]

I generally agree with scruffy, however I have found that stopping for short pre-prepared performance routines (must be well practiced) can work well. First it gives you a break from all the quick gags, second it gives people a chance to see you perform and third it gives you a chance to hand out your card to interested people at the end :wink:

[saphireSue]

Depends on the crowd, strolling with a few simple gags, then stopping to do a mini show [routine] is what we do. I prefer walk around to being in one spot doing balloons all day.

[Picaburu]

I prefer to walkaround to interact with people... with some musics or gags... Normally, I do this with a group of clowns... I'm not secure to do it alone yet...

Picaburu

[Jobee]

(I wish i could have done it with a group. I think it would have been even more fun.

[mr_buckaroo]

i agree jobee working with other clown is like keystone cops on steroids it can be a kick

[ashes]

Our clown group is going to do a Christmas parade in early December.

We've been working on ideas, but so far nothing really stands out.

We don't know how many of us will be able to attend, for sure.

The two female clowns are going to put bells on their wrists so they
jingle when they wave and shake hands.

I think I'm going to do the free "shoe shine" bit, while my compadre
is thinking about doing the bit where he has a balloon to give to a
spectator, yet they come away with only a bit of string.


We tried to come up with something more original - I thought it would
be fun to be all tangled up in holiday lights, and have a ladder as
a prop between the two of us. I could see some opportunities for some
physical comedy there. We wanted the lights to be lit, of course, but
there aren't many strings of battery-powered lights out yet. We found
some strings of 20 lights, but that's not enough for my idea.

We were going to build a ladder out of some flimsy moulding - we found
the exact right stuff. It would be light and what's more the ladder would be really
flimsy and therefore funny in itself.


In the mean time, we're open to other possibilities of walk-around gags. We
can have anywhere between 2 to 9 or 10 clowns, depending on who can show
or not. At the upper end, we have the making of a good kazoo band
(We wish kazoo a Merry Christmas) or a clown "precision drill team"

More realisticaly we will have 4 or 6 folks. Any good group-based walk-around
gags for that size group?

Thanks for any suggestions!

[mr_buckaroo]

hey ashes get some old hand drills or cordless ones and you could have your own drill team.

[Scruffy]

Good one Mr. Buckaroo. Sounds like a great Idea Ashes. It's alway more fun with more clowns!