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Learn Kid Show Magic
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Filmed in front of a real school audience, this video shows you routines for props you may already own that are common for family show audiences. You see a full show, and then you are taken into the studio for an interview with Carroll Baker and Steve "Merlin" Branham.
Geared toward intermediate to advanced performers.
The show: effects and bits of business
- The warm up
- The Torn and Restored Napkin, with a sucker ending
- The Pledge (call and respond)
- The Tootsie Pop trick (dove pan, double wall bag) with a helper
- Break-Away Wand
- Feather Duster Wand
- Multiplying Wands
- The Wedding March gag (two helpers)
- The Square Circle and the Appearing Eggs trick (a Thurston tribute)
- The Pom Pom Pole
- Comedy Cut and Restored Rope, with pop knots and a sliding knot
- Pizza Oven Die Box, with a reappearing finish
- Three Cup Monte (vanishing water) with a vanishing hanky
- No-Tear Torn and Restored Newspaper, with jokes and a running gag
- The Magic Coloring Book, with a mouth coil finish
- Snap Silks
- Mirror Box Ball Production
- Stratosphere
- Ball Vanish and Devil's Hanky
- No-Tear finish
The studio interview
- Warm ups
- Birthday show talk
- Giveaways and gift bags
- Using sound
- What to do if a child says "I know that trick"
- Bits of business
- Sucker effects
- Set list
- Planning a show, and opening effects
- Highs and lows
- How to handle mistakes
- How to handle a wild child in a show, and how to pick helpers
- How to make your own effects
Explanations
- Torn Napkin
- Lollipop bag and cut and restored rope bag construction
- Lollipop
- Cut and restored rope, and pop knots
- Magic Coloring Book finish
- Water Monte