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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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Monopoly Magic !

I like the idea of the mentalism premise where you have a 5 objects that are all the same and one different one. People from the audience all hold one of the objects, and you find who is holding the odd one.

That premise is fun, and I have a few themes for it. The other day I thought of one using Monopoly game pieces.

monopoly magic trick

The hotels and houses lend themselves to a presentation about finding your way home.

This set of houses and hotels was 3D printed and is gimmicked to work with Promystic’s Flux. One of the challenges of using an electronic gimmick is what do you do if it doesn’t work? What’s the out? For some things, I’ve decided the best way to do it is to have a second gimmick. Luckily, Flix isn’t too expensive, and running two gimmicks at the same time isn’t very complicated.

I look forward to trying this out!

-Louie