Today marks the start of the second half of this school assembly tour. The show has gotten much tighter than the first show, and I’ve removed a lot of material from it. One chunk that was three tricks has been eliminated, as well as some lines/jokes/bits that weren’t playing. More importantly, I found the strengths of the show and accentuated those.
The show’s strength is that while the tricks are good, the strength of the show is how I interact with the kids. I let them shine in the show, and the meat of the show, which is my Monopoly Routine, feels more like a hypnosis show with the kids doing sort of act outs than it does an historically themed magic show…but it is still a historically themed magic show!
It is interesting that one of the tricks that was going to be filler in case the show ran too short became the closer. This trick is Jeff McBride’s BEKOS (smiley face version) and it’s really the only routine in the show that I didn’t create. The other one would be the Flying Spoons by Jemin, which is used as part of a larger routine.
That’s the cool thing about a tour like this, where I’m doing 2-3 shows a day, the show gets good fast!
-Louie
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