CrownBariDad Posted August 13, 2022 Report Share Posted August 13, 2022 Good sign: The Crown souvie booth had to put up that crowd control rope maze for all those fans wanting Crown swag. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orwellian Wiress Posted August 13, 2022 Report Share Posted August 13, 2022 My theater barely reacted at all during Big Loud and Live but gasps and laughter were heard all over when Crown freaking rickrolled us. One of the highlights of the night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrummerParent Posted August 13, 2022 Report Share Posted August 13, 2022 5 minutes ago, ZTWright said: The Crown team wanted audience participation and they simply just aren't getting it at the level they wanted. They had a good audience participation in Allentown where the corps was really getting the audience engaged preshow. They haven’t been able to get that level of engagement in Indy. The sound system issue delaying them yesterday didn’t help any either. I think it will be difficult for them to overtake BAC or Bloo tonight but a really full house with a shorter day for the fans may help the crowd energy. Sometimes I think they should have just made the app a light show like some college games and concerts do. That might would be more interesting to fans because it is more passive participation than what they’ve been trying. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZTWright Posted August 13, 2022 Report Share Posted August 13, 2022 4 minutes ago, CrownBariDad said: Good sign: The Crown souvie booth had to put up that crowd control rope maze for all those fans wanting Crown swag. I'm hoping they restock the CrownStore. I've tried twice in the last month to order a tour shirt and they've been out of stock both times. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeRapp Posted August 13, 2022 Report Share Posted August 13, 2022 24 minutes ago, BWise said: Mike .. I really do not even think Inferno would come close to winning. DCI has just moved into such a different place .. which I don’t think includes grand sweeping mega Drum Corps shows with those story lines. I love what Boston is doing and tonight will tell if that type of show is highly rewarded. Just a week ago the chatter was about BAC beating BDs and now they have to fight it out with Bloo. Survey says from my arena of non-experts Bloo is t’ed up for silver. But we’ll see. Inferno was a story. E=mc2 was a story. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drum Corps Is Now a Bust Posted August 13, 2022 Report Share Posted August 13, 2022 39 minutes ago, MikeRapp said: That’s sort of the point. It isn’t inviting it. It gets it. The idea that the crowd contributes to the show CONTENT is not new. And they made a good run at it, it just doesn’t work. And when your entire show concept IS audience involvement… What I do think was the really big mistake is not changing it. They just kept rolling the same thing out night after night with the same results. Yeah, Mr. Rapp, Crown has had this type of problem before. I'm thinking of 2014 where the design just seems immutable or they didn't know how effectively change it. In that show, the trampolines just seemed too of an obstacle to do good drill/design changes. Maybe that me, but I agree with you, they need to allow their music choices and design draw the audience in. They did a wonderful job of this in 2015. Very few bells and whistle but the music did the talking and it was wonderful symphonic classical music from the brass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drum Corps Is Now a Bust Posted August 13, 2022 Report Share Posted August 13, 2022 47 minutes ago, DrummerParent said: An excellent point. Saying a world class percussion group that finished 7th “stunk” is quite an exaggeration and not only an insult to that Crown percussion group but every group that finished 8th and below. I assume this “Drum Corps is a Bust” person is maybe 11 years old though so I don’t pay them too much mind. You know what they say about assumptions . . . ad hominem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappybara Posted August 13, 2022 Report Share Posted August 13, 2022 1 hour ago, nsxanax said: Props to Bloo this year. That keytar feature is crazy good. Show stopper even. To me it is by far the best movement in drum corps this season. Just a master class by Bloo’s design staff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3PoC Posted August 13, 2022 Report Share Posted August 13, 2022 To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson “Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.” BD, Bloo, BAC, SCV, Cadets, etc... all have shows about a journey - an arc that draws you into and through an experience that leads to new places or understandings. Not that all shows need an explicit narrative journey to be engaging, but RHRN seems all destination and we don't get the satisfaction of getting drawn into any particularly special RHRN moment (ala BK 2014 That One Second) over the course of the show. I think this has made it hard for Crown to layer and deepen the show as the season progressed. They do perform the heck out of it though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrummerParent Posted August 13, 2022 Report Share Posted August 13, 2022 17 minutes ago, Drum Corps Is Now a Bust said: You know what they say about assumptions . . . ad hominem. You’re better off just pretending you’re 11. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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