Summer Tour 2014 Days Away

Hi Friends,

Well, the 2014 Summer Tour is right around the corner. Thank you to everyone who booked a show because this year is going to be absolutely out of this world GREAT! As usual, I'm running two different shows, PRESTO MAGICO for prek and The Steampunk Magician for school agers. OH wait! Did I say two shows? Well, I'm also doing a Library Show called The Steampunk Wizard of Reading! So there are really three shows.

I have been working around the clock to get everything ready. What can you expect? For Presto Magico, you will get my usual fun, energetic, laugh-filled show but with a bunch of new magic and NEW silly surprises. I've also got a whole new crop of magic wands that I've never shown anyone before, so if the kids have seen my show before, they'll be experiencing a bunch of different things!  Incredibly fun magic that is age appropriate and ideal for pre-schoolers, and the best part, I've been doing this for almost 20 years so one thing is certain, I can deliver a GREAT SHOW!!!

For the Steampunk Magician Show, well, this is super cool. For this show, I will be setting up my
backdrop, bringing in sound system for music, and tons of unbelievable props. This show is very theatrical and very different from the usual daycare shows because this is really geared to an older group (which is why it's for school agers). There will be time machines, temporal accelerators, automatons (robotic devices), card tricks and much much more. Ok, there is only one card trick planned but it's really different and unusual. This show is very visual and very engaging. The kids and teachers will love this show.

I just finished refurbishing and building 5 new pieces for the show. I'm so excited at how everything is turning out. I can't wait to show off these incredible new pieces. OH but wait, I've also got some super cool sleight of hand magic that is going into the show too. AND a miniature illusion that I'll need someone from the audience to help me with.  Below is a photo of one of the news refurbished 'steampunk' props that cause a borrowed shoe to travel into the future and then back again!

This wasn't meant to be an ad for the shows. I'm pretty much all booked up. There might be less than 10 spots remaining, so if someone wants to try and get in, I'll do my best to fit you in, but please understand you probably won't get to pick a specific day. But again, if I can get you on the calender I surely will try my best. And if I can't I might just have another wonderful entertainer that could help you out! So either way contact me.

For those who are already booked, SEE YOU VERY SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Booking for October

Hi Folks,

Well the bookings for October are going well, but there is still room for more. October is kind of the unofficial Magic Month. Magicians traditionally celebrate Oct 31, as National Magic Day and the week prior as National Magic Week. Harry Houdini passed away on Oct 31, 1926, and this is why magicians commemorate that day.

My show this year is called "The FALL-O-WEEN Show". It's a very fun and laugh filled program ideal for prek-elementary school kids.  All the material in the show is presented in a lighthearted fashion. There are tricks with pumpkins, a casper-like ghost, Mr. Bones (who the kids LOVED last year) and much more. 45 minutes of fun for everyone!

Give me a call if you'd like to set this up for your school, neighborhood, or whatever kind of event!
703-404-8902

ps-If you are looking for something for a somewhat older audience, you want my other performing character, Dean Carnegie. Just be sure to ask for details when you call.

Shorty Routine to Appear in KIDabra Journal

I decided to give the 'Shorty The World's Tallest Clown' routine to the readers of my column, ALL THINGS MAGICAL in the KIDabra Journal. I have held back the manufacturing rights as I may produce these in the future. I will say it's been a very fun routine to do this summer and is ideal for younger kids.

Basically, the picture grows in size. I don't know if there has been anything like this for young audiences before. The effect itself is not new, the method is based on a much older effect but the story is original and I believe my handling choice of subject matter also make this a unique routine for kid and family entertainers.

Summer Shows in Full Swing

Wow am I having a ball this year! There is a lot of new magic in the shows this year. I've also done something different with older material. I've been revamping older tricks and doing my best to turn them into something totally different. One example is from my Story Time Magic Show where I took an older effect where a picture of a clown disappears from within a group of other circus pictures and changed it so that the image of the clown stretches to twice his length rather than vanish. Then I wrote a story to go with it called 'Shorty the World's Tallest Clown'. Fun stuff.

A highlight of The Very Puzzling Magic Show is when I take a small square of paper with a dot on each side and continue to turn the square over and show that it has more and more dots on it. Eventually the square of paper is tossed into the air where it visually turns into a 3-dimensional dice!

There are many other surprises in the shows and I'm now sending out my FIRST Fall 2011 mailing. I'm planning on scheduling Fall before the Summer is finished.