Penguin Official Blurb"Simon shows you how to get more out of your magic and to think more of your audience.” -Randy Wakeman
"Simon cheats, swindles, scams and cons better than anyone. That's why we love him. Combine Simon Lovell's slick tricks and Matt Bomer's smooth charm and you get Neal Caffrey." -Jeff Eastin, Creator and Executive Producer of USA Network's White Collar
"You were a pleasure to work with and a real pro." -Greg Sadler, CBC Network Canada
"One of NYC's most skilled and original tricksters" -Time Out New York
"Thank you for all of your hard work ... you were fantastic...PS. Can I have my pants back now?" -Chris Martin, Executive Producer of VH1's Celebracadabra
"Superbly gifted" -Stage and Television Today
"We at the Magic Castle regard Simon Lovell as a most skilled operator in the field of detecting crooked gambling " -Billy McComb, Director of the Hollywood's Magic Castle
"A large part of the remarkable achievement of the Festival this year can be attributed your talent and generosity" -Just For Laughs Festival, Montreal 2001
"You are one of the few performers who pass my quality threshold" -John Fisher, Thames Television
"He's part Emo Phillips, part all the members of Monty Python, part a male version of Dame Edna ... This guy can wise crack with the best of them" -Back Stage, NYC
"We were all stunned with breadth and depth of your superb skills!" -PBS
"Mr. Lovell was well spoken, immensely polite and obviously highly educated. He is a man of many talents and very comfortable in front of the camera. We were absolutely charmed by his demeanor and rich English accent." -Bob Fulbright, Wave 3 television
"The Biggest Maniac in Magic!" -London Daily Express
"Simon, you were fantastic!" -ABC TV
What will he teach?
Fingered 3
An amazing card transpo that happens in the spectators hand
Packed Wallet
Not only a card to wallet, but also a DECK to wallet!
Namer
Change the color of the back of a SIGNED card.
Nightmare Deck
A very silly joke deck.
Pen Through Tongue
Exactly what it sounds like!
Smedley The Great
Simon uses his pet lizard to find a chosen card!
Another Departed Point
Simon's clever version of the Elmsley plot.
Heartless
An ambitious card routine with an amazing ending where the center of each card vanishes.
Lemming Ace Exchange
Simon's play on the Roy Walton plot.
Wobbly Wombat
A multiple selection routine ending with all the cards in your wallet.
Blues Sisters
A surprise routine created with Dan Harlan!
Four-Play
A cool card revelation where the card ends up with its mates.
Star Trick
A very interesting version of the aeroplane effect with a deck of cards!
And more...
In addition to his amazing work with cards, he'll share gags, jokes, and bits of business including the musical mice and screaming chicken.
Simon will also be taking requests! Feel free to chime in and ask him to perform any of his effects.
Be sure to tune in here to Penguin Live to see why watching Simon Lovell is the most fun you'll ever have while being fooled.
Who is he?
Simon Lovell is a world-renowned close up entertainer incredibly gifted in the art of sleight-of-hand. His level of skill is second only to his ability to entertain and create laughter. His talents are especially popular at private parties and corporate functions where he can seamlessly entertain from group to group, amazing everybody along the way! Oh, and by the way, he spent his early years allegedly as a conman and now advises the hit USA Network television show White Collar as well as other television appearances. You can check from the TV and Video links! Yes, Simon is America's Conman... on the good side of the law!
Simon's live engagements have received wide acclaim. Simon's performed all over the world, from the famous Magic Castle in Hollywood to the London Palladium, through the middle and far east to Australia, and South America. Whatever the group, he has never failed to please them!
One of Simon's specialties is catering his work to corporate clients. Whatever the size of the group he can use his magical talents to give them an experience they will never forget. He has integrated his clients products into his performance designing specialized magic into each show.
Simon is a highly experienced performer with over 350 television credits to his name. Additionally, Simon has produced 16 videos, published 21 books, and written hundreds of magazine articles, short stories and scripts. In recent years he has been professionally engaged advising others performers in live and film situations, lecturing world wide to casinos and also to specialist groups of magicians.
Over the years Simon has appeared in every kind of venue. His unique style and audience involvement make him one of the most popular magical entertainers around. Reviewers have described his trademark straitjacket routine as one of the funniest tricks in the world!
Watching Simon Lovell is an unforgettable experience.
Cost$29.95
Difficulty(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
3 - Most of the work is very easy, but some sleights are used.
What You GetThe lecture - 3 hours and 20 minutes long!
ReviewSimon Lovell and Dan Harlen seem to be great friends as they have a lot of banter during the lecture. Simon's sense of humor is quite quirky and inappropriate for some audiences.
The lecture generally follows the performance-explanation format.
Some of the highlights:
Packed Wallet is awesome - card to wallet followed by pack to wallet - it is very easy and has a really really nice additional feature
Some very interesting theory on making the impact of the 2nd or 3rd trick live up to the impact of the first.
Blues Sisters is a really great performance piece, a full multi-phased routine involving (card) sandwiches and colour changing backs. This is something i enjoyed watching, but have no desire to learn - it may appeal to others.
Smedley! - This is really cute. A toy lizard finds the selected card... What more could you want
A section on creating magic without doing any tricks.
A rather inspiring story.
All in all a very enjoyable lecture, there were some sections i really didn't like, but some sections i really liked.
OverallAs I am indexing each lecture I am giving each section (performance, trick, theory, etc) a rating out of 10 based on how much I enjoyed it, whether I would perform it, if it inspired me etc. So i guess the fairest way to rate the lecture would be to take the average. With this lecture I've looked two averages. Simply because there were two items (they were gags, not tricks but they were not to my taste) included which I thought were so horrible I rated them as 0 - resulting in an average of 6.38/10. The rest of the lecture was great (one item at 10, one item at 9 and most at 7 or
, so I don't think it is fair to let them bring the average score down so much, if i remove the 0s from the average then the overall score would be 7.55/10. Please use whichever score you think is most appropriate.
7.55/10