The Work Family Saves The Day
The other night I took the stage for a very important Awards Ceremony after being introduced as if I were the greatest performer in the world. Plugged in my iPhone which runs my 40+ music cues before my hour long Show. I introduced the first song and….nothing. My phone was frozen. I laughed nervously and fidgeted with it. And then I tried to shut it off to reboot. Wouldn’t slide touch off. Oh. My. Gosh. The pit in my stomach was beyond anything I’ve felt in a while. AV Team began scrambling, ran up and checked all the connections. I told them it was the phone and handed it to them to try and troubleshoot as I said to audience, “Well, this is a great way to start a show, whatdya say?” So I launched into my speaking message The Promise. Audience is laughing good and loud. Show will go on…without music I guess. 15 minutes later AV guy runs up, hands me the phone, somehow it’s working – I ditch the speech material and blast into the show music. Standing ovation. All is well that ends well. This was the first time I’ve taken the
