Right now, the only trick left in the school assembly that I didn’t really create is Jeff McBride’s BEKOS (Smiley Face Version). It’s the closing trick for the show, and it hasn’t been hitting all week, and I was going to cut it.
I rewrote the routine and took it from a different direction from the previous script, and it worked really well yesterday! The routine before was stuck with the theme and a loose “goodbye,” and I rewrote it as a heartfelt message. It isn’t a BS message that’s written to get a reaction; it’s something I truly believe in.
In one of the first shows that I did, the kids were seated in bleachers, and at the end of the trick, about 25 kids spontaneously stood up and cheered! It got an unprompted standing ovation from elementary school-aged kids!
I’m a fan of BEKOS (smiley face version)!
-Louie
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Cutting Another Routine!
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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