by The Magic Attic » Apr 1st, '09, 16:20
Review
Sunday 29th March
Review By Darren Holden
The night got off to a great start, with table magician Tony Hyams, table hopping, and warming up the crowd.
The evening opened with myself performing The Vanishing Bandana Trick.
The first half was a good mix of magic.
B-Dazzled Magic - Darren Sneglar
Started off with a rountine involving 4 people, who all choose a card. Darren then told them that they had all choosen the same card, to which they named the cards, proving that Darren was wrong. He tore up the card in his hand and gave them a pieces each, WHICH WAS THEIR CHOOSEN CARDS!
His second trick involved 4 cards Ace to 4 of Diamonds, each one vanished from the pack and appeared in different places about his person, with the final card turning blank and the card reappearing inside an envelope, inside his wallet.
The Magic Of John Shuttleworth
John started his rountine with a version of Slydini's Silk, his got 2 people up to help him. They tied the silk's together, to which the knot's came undone. This was repeated several times, finally the knot's multipled.
The next trick he did was The Baffle Box, he told an entertaining story about travelling around the world looking for a box which produced coins, each country he told about (with accent!!!), he produced a coin from that country finally producing a roll of notes, from a box which remained empty throughtout the act.
Timmy Taylor
Timmy was the final performer for the first half, the first effect he performed was having 3 cards selected from the audience.
The cards were shuffled back into the deck, next he brought out a crick bat and asked for the cards to be bowled at the bat, where he (attemped) hit the deck and the three choosen cards stuck to bat.
His final trick, was a book test. For this his used a local telephone directory, 3 random numbers were choosen from the audience, he then named the business and telephone number at the top of that page!!! this was checked with the phone book and he was correct!
There was now a 25min interval.
I opened the second half with an effect called Silent Treatment, where a card is choosen from a picture of cards, and ends up being the card in my mouth.
Panda & Chicken
These 2 girls have never been on stage or done magic before this night.
They started with an entertaining version of cards across, using a 5ft chicken to magically pass the cards across. Next they did a comedy card routine, having a card selected and lost in the deck, after a couple of attemps to find the card, it was found in an envelope that a member of the audience had held onto from the beginning. They finished up their act with Spike, where Panda had a 6" spike hidden under some cups. She then broke each cup and somehow managed not to impale herself with the spike!
A very good show for first timers!!
Romanos
Our youngest act of the evening, opened with a great multiplying ball, to music, finally producing a crystal ball!
He finished his act with an invisible touch routine, where he got an audience member up, closed their eyes and pretended to touch them on the arm, to which they said they were actually touched!! Very spooky.
Jason Southern
Our final act of the evening, Jason opened with a colour card routine, where he has 4 coloured cards mixed up and placed into envelopes. As each one was handed back to him, he guessed with colour with in which envelope.
His final effcct was having 4 helpers in a line, each given a envelope with the colour cards in. An audience member with the prediction in, was offered to mix the envelopes up rather. When the envelope was opened it revealed that all the envelopes and colour cards were infact in the same order as the prediction!!!
All over it was a very entertaing evening and i hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did performing it.
Hope you will join us for the next event or even take part!
