Connecting Close Cues

If during the planning of your score you notice that two ore more cues will be pretty close together (meaning less than 30 seconds in between), unless that moment of silence is essential (point of a joke, strong emotional moment etc.), you should prefer to connect them and having music also in the originally planned gap as getting out and into another cue in a very short time can be quite distracting for your audience and drag more attention on itself than you might want.