The Trulie Awesome Show had the opportunity to host panels at Origins this year for their Anime Track. We covered a variety of topics over the course of four days, but my favorite was when we got to perform our show.
Bringing a show to a convention is a bit tricky because you have to be able to set up and tear down quickly and you have to create your own backstage area. I learned that the hard way with our first convention, Midoricon. I had not seen the room before the day we were doing the show, and if they hadn't had a giant screen, we would have been changing in front of everyone. Not exactly the show we want to present! Since then, we have put together a mic-stands and bed sheets version of a backstage area, which travels well and can double as a projection screen.
The staff of the Hyatt were very helpful, letting us use a bell hop cart and letting us pull up to the entrance to unload. (The bell hop cart is one of the most useful inventions) Thank you Hyatt!
We performed a 45 minute set of our original sketch comedy and dance which was a lot of fun. I was surprised we were able to clean up all of the paper, candy, and tech in under five minutes.
Since this was the first year for Anime Track at Origins, it wasn't a heavy traffic area, but we all had a great time! We met some folks from JoyYou Cafe and Anime Punch, two anime loving companies in town you should definitely check out. We hope that Wasabi Anime does this again next year!
Our next stop is Gen Con July 30th-August 2nd and we will be performing at Midoricon 2015 September 25th-27th
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