During tonight’s 7:30 amphitheater rehearsal, our Cabin B improv chorus tried to rhyme “s’mores” and somehow modulated into the Jaws theme on kazoos, while I kept time with a very confused tambourine. What’s your best trick for guiding a runaway group number back to musical sense without losing the laugh?
I cue a quick “drop to hum on Do — chorus in 3,” then clap-clap-clap so everyone lands on the tonic and we relaunch the refrain without killing the joke. If the Jaws bit is slaying, let it swim for one bar, then tag a big kazoo fermata before the reset — do you have a designated caller to own that cue?