Ping Pong Ballad

• Objective: Have two people take turns singing about an audience member.
• Instructions:
  • Two singers, and audience volunteer, and one accompanist needed
  • The singers do a quick interview of the audience member to learn about them
  • The singers then sing about the audience member, but only one at a time
  • The singer that the audience member is looking at is the one who sings
• Example:
  • Singers: *Interview audience member*
  • Singer 1: *Tell audience member that they determine who sings*
  • *Accompanist starts playing*
  • Singer 1: “You are a mechanical engineer, you love to…”
  • *Audience member looks at Singer 2*
  • Singer 2: “…build everything that you own. You used to play with Hot Wheels when you were younger, now you play…”
  • *Audience member looks at Singer 1*
  • Singer 1: “… with blueprints when you’re grown.”
  • *Keep the song going until some narrative climax occurs*
• Notes:
  • Make sure to get some key points of the audience member’s life as a way to inspire the song.
  • A singer should pick up right where the other left off, so that their sentences are grammatically correct.