Excited to announce my first magic special on Youtube! It's a full show that I did a number of years ago at the famed National Theatre in Washington DC. I was in the Helen Hayes Gallery as part of an ongoing program called "Monday At The National". I did a 50 minute show on stage in front of a crowd of around 100 people. I know we sold out. Whether or not that was due to me, or just because Monday At The National has a built in audience is something I can't answer. I know I had about ten really well known magicians in the audience. Everyone else were lay people.
The day of the show, The Washington Post had a piece to promote the show that included this quote, "Take Howie Mandel's Boyish Bald Charm, mix it with David Copperfield's magical charisma, and POOF! You get Carnegie: Artist of Mystery!"
One thing I will say about the Helen Hayes Gallery Stage, there is a stage and there is a platform in front of the stage. I chose to do the entire show on the platform in front of the curtain. It had better visibility and worked fairly well overall. I think the only routine that I had a tiny bit of trouble with was the Hula Hoops because of the tiny platform. Other than that, it was all good.
The funniest part of the show for me now is watching those older routines. Some of them have changed drastically over time, a lot are no longer done. The opening routine, The Lesson in Magic, has more comedy, and is tighter, and a bit faster in it today. It's also not used as an opening anymore. I generally open with the Hula Hoops for stage shows, why I changed for this, I don't know. The Sack Escape, today, has a new sack. I wasn't thrilled with the purple sack to be honest. It just looked odd to me. And Im the one who had it made, lol. The Steel Straitjacket which was built by Mark Cannon and the Plexiglass Escape Box which was built by Richard Sherry, made for an interesting ending. But that may have been one of the last times I used either of them. Both men were excellent builders of escape props.
Please watch the video and enjoy. I will be posting another full length show soon. The next time will be from the Underground Magic Theatre which was a theatre in Sterling VA that I shared with two of my performing buddies. We had a 50 seat venue and did the wildest stuff there, a full illusion show 2 feet from the first row! That will be on the NEXT video, once I finish the edits.
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