Top 10 Ways to Give Your Senior Recital "Oomph"

10. Serve Haystacks at your reception.

9. Play a Webern piece as your final number.

8. Get your recital to be worth CommUnity credit. (Or for those in other colleges, just think "chapel" credit or some equivalent.)

7. Make a personal ad detailing all of your "outstanding and desirable qualities" to cover an entire page of your program. Make it preposterously cocky.

6. Prepare 4 encores; then hire some friends to stand at the back and clap until you've performed them all.

5. Propose to your significant other in a program insert.

4. Tape a $50 gift certificate to Starbucks under one of the seats of the auditorium, then announce that it's there during the intermission.

3. Spike the punch.

2. Change your shirt & tie/dress between every number.

1. Write a book about your life, then set up a table at the close of the program and sell copies for $39.95. Offer autographs.


Bonus: Serve wheatgrass juice as your punch.

Bonus #2: Spike the wheatgrass juice.


Disclaimer: The help of friends was enlisted to create this list, so I cannot account for everything that you see here.