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What advice do you have for me about magic acts?
We have an annual Family Reunion coming up and i want to know about magic acts.
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(1) PRACTICE each trick you want to do in front of a mirror until you can do it ten times in a row perfectly. If you have a video camera you can practice in front of, that's even better; it will let you see exactly what the audience sees. There are few things as embarrassing as flubbing an illusion onstage.
(2) There are usually children at a family reunion. Any professional magician will tell you that children are extremely hard to fool. Most magic tricks are based on misdirected attention and sidestepping expectations. Children simply don't pay attention to what they're "supposed" to, so trying to misdirect them doesn't work as well. And they will have fewer expectations, because they don't have as much experience with life. Finally, they love to "bust" the guy on stage. So, when performing in front of the kids, have a plan in case they see through your tricks and announce it loudly.
(3) Along those lines, it can be fun to perform some obvious trick that the kids WILL see right through, but then use that as a lead-in to a trick which is even more impressive and blows the "explanation" out of the water.
(4) Professional Conjurer James Randi had a great answer prepared for when people asked, "How do you do that?" He would say, "Very well, I hope."
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