After the third day of shows for this school assembly tour, there are some changes that I’m making to the show. All of my shows today ran long, even after cutting out the egg bag routine!
The show’s set list was originally this:
- Ice Cream Routine: Spoon manipulation and ice cream to streamers.
- Post Card Across: Postcard Travels from one kid’s hand to another kid’s hand
- Torn and Restored Postcard
- Monopoly: There are 4 red buildings and 1 green house. Five kids each take one without me seeing who has what. I find the green house and reveal a prediction with the kid’s name who has the green house.
- Floating Rock: Zombie ball, but with a rock
- Egg Bag
- Appearing Golf Club
- Snake Trick: A snake eats a hole in a piece of paper
- Knots Off Silk: This is Jeff McBride’s BEKOS Smiley Face version
I know that feels like a lot of material, but several of those things are very quick tricks. For example, the floating rock is 55 seconds.
After cutting the egg bag yesterday, I’m going cut out the floating rock and the appearing golf club for today’s shows. I’m keeping the props for those routines in my case for the next few show days, just in case they’re needed.
The goal is to keep the show at 40-45 minutes. The show today was running at over 50 minutes.
-Louie
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This is really interesting to me, to read other magician’s thoughts and experiences with routining and what ends up getting cut. I appreciate you sharing this day-to-day work in progress on refining your show.
I really like your idea for the floating rock (wish I had thought of that!) , but was wondering what was your original reason for placing the short floating rock routine (55 secs.) between the Monopoly prediction effect and the Egg Bag ? Was it just a convenient spot for trying out the effect to see how it played ?
The placement has more to do with the theme/educational content of the show. The floating rock, egg bag and appearing golf club are really one big chunk, that could work as any or all of them…or be scrapped entirely.
I will say that that chunk was probably my least favorite as I really didn’t create anything aside from maybe the theming of the floating rock.
Louie