I am a birthday party magician. I also do anything else magically pro bono or pay that comes my way. I've been doing this since I saw my first magician at a birthday party 50 years ago, and the main thing I have learned is that magicians as a whole do not give birthday performers the credit thay deserve. Most hide the fact that this is where they started, and probably still work birthday parties when they get the chance. Fact: BDP's are a huge sourse of revenue, and generally the only farm team magicians have. Abrakidabra is just about the only convention devoted to kid's performers, and they are the best. But we need more. We need BDP magis's to come out of the closet and stand up for this great group of bold performers who love kids enough to learn how to entertain them. This is the only way the art can survive. Most kids see their first magician at a birthday party. Where would future magician come from if BDP shows disappeared. Parents must be kept awar of our existance, how valuable it is for kids to see a live show (TV and Videos will not a total child make), the interact not with a mouse but with a live person, a pat on the shoulder, a smile...a chance to get up on the stage, and proudly stand before their peers and be part of the act. There is no greater feeling.
Let's start a Union, A Guild, a Club, a pact, a chat room...whatever just all of us who started and stayed with birthday shows no matter where else magic has taken us.
Mystic Mickey :
