An upcoming roving gig I have wanted a mentalist, not a magician for their event. The agent who contacted me about it knows what I do in my show very well and asked if I could do it. My stage show has many mentalism things in it that just aren’t really presented as mentalism and my roving is the same.
I said “yes” to the gig, but need to reframe what I do a little bit to put it into the context the client wants. The material that I’m planning on taking out with me:
- ACAAN – I published an old version of what I do in a linking ring from 15 or so years ago
- Spoon/fork bending – I published this as The Perceptive Bend in Vanish Magazine around April 2019
- Paint Swatch Matching – I published this as Pick Our Rooms Paint in Vanish Magazine in I think July 2024
- Color Block Prediction – This uses a small block with different colors on it and it uses up to three different methods throughout the routine. One of the methods is original to me, the other two are based on marketed items.
- Number prediction – This is basically Acidus Novus for the method and a follow up to the color block trick
- Pet’s Name Divination – This is my routine using Peeked by Joel Dickinson. Peeked is a really clever effect/method to gain information on a card in the context of a divination type routine.
That’s the roving set and it’s way more material than I’ll need for two 45 minute sets for 400 people. I think that I’ll do two different sets for each time I’m out. That will solve the problem of people mixing with other groups and having seen something before.
-Louie