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What are the designated sizes (No bingo intended) of audiences if there are any for the following veunes(?) or is it genres(?) of magic:

Close-Up

Parlour

Cabaret(May be the same as parlour)

and Stage

It's just been on my mind...

(No bingo, I know, I'm no fun)

I would say, though I may be wrong that it's something like this:

Close-up. Very similar to table-hopping in that you're performing for one person up to a group of around 12. Imagine working at a wedding reception, moving from table to table.

Parlour I've always thought of in terms of "Victorian parlour magic", where you have a magician in a room of around 20 - 30 people and he is doing a very intimate show.

Cabaret is a short act put on alongside other performers, eg jugglers, exotic dancers (yes please), comedians, singers. So the magicians act may only be ten minutes long, but the actual show can be several hours long.

Stage is where the magician is the prime performer if not the only performer on the stage. Chances are it's the magician that people have specifically paid to see, and he/she will provide a show that may be several hours long.

Hope that's about right?!

Close-up to me includes both walk around and table hopping and can vary alot in size. I've performed for anywhere between 40 and 300 people in a close-up setting. Usually I'd say that it's normally about 100-150 people. Tables can vary alot in size to from 2 people to 10 or 15, although anything more than 10 to a table and I find it very difficult to engage with everyone.

Parlour to me is a small setting of upto 30 people in a small room with a magician performing to them all.

I think of cabaret similar to MagicWand, as a short act, a silent act to music would be a good cabaret act which is part of a bigger show. The sort of thing that you see in a variety show would be cabaret. I guess you could have hundreds of people at this.

Thanks!