A short clip of my mates Byron Bertram who apparently bailed a show and Owen Lean who worked it.
It made me laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl......N3-uVJdA

????? I guess that I'm too old to understand!

What you don't get it, it's a joke. That crowd was massive of cause Byron worked it! Must be my British humor. Lol

I like it. I've seen a few performers bail on perfectly good crowds. They may have had their reasons, but it seems to reflect poorly on street performers in general.

It all depends on the performer, mate.
You can bail gracefully, ie you can do it in way that your audeiance does not know. Or you wrap after you finish an effect stating thank you audeiance for watching so far this is my free gift to you have a great day. Or words to that end. I have seen it done in anger that does reflect badly on them self's or street performers.

GREAT JOKE!!!

I got the joke, but then I'm also british (I just thank god I'm not welsh)

That was funny thank's for sharing. There's nothing wrong with firing a crowd. But the people that get fired are sometimes the ones who cared and wanted to watch your show. Where as the ones who contributed to an ill moment walked off and are long gone...

Haha....fantastic.

Ohhhhh, WELSH, I could understand!!! (Trevor Lewis "taught" me about "Welsh" in Jay Marshall's kitchen about 35+ years ago!!!)

I've come close to "bailing" in a couple of high school assembly programs (back in Vietnam War days).

I broke in with magic and fire eating in a carnival side show in the '40s. After "surviving" a few of those tips (crowds) on Saturday "tear down nights", a fella could face "anything"!