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suspectacts Elite user Boston 493 Posts |
OK,
I'm not looking for routines that you can do if you lose your luggage; it's been covered already. I'm looking for help in brainstorming a routine around the premise that you've lost your luggage. The idea would be that you are introduced as a magician who has lost his gear in transit and then you come out and try to do your act anyway. Each time you introduce a prop, you explain that you had something really 'magical' in your bag, but tonight you will use (introduce a pedestrian prop which you use as a stand-in) It seems to me that the premise might actually justify some 'hoary' (look it up) routines that seem kiddy or unjustified without this framework. So far my the only specific thought I've had is using the egg beater mind reading machine " I had something more techy in my bags, but for tonight this will have to do". Please join in the fun and don't be afriad to think outside the box - not the black laquered one with the dragon, that one is lost in transit, just this cardboard one I found backstage. peter |
MichaelKent Special user 560 Posts |
Wow! I've also got a bit with this same premise in the works!
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magicgeorge Inner circle Belfast 4299 Posts |
Sword cabinet with cardboard box and umbrella's, walking sticks (one white one?), golf clubs, pool cues.
Rope trick with jump leads. Zombie with your jacket and a large ball of newspaper. Predictions written in borrowed lipstick on various parts of your body. Rabbit production actually a production from a baseball cap of an alley cat with two long ears nailed to his head. Escape from a bin bag. Multiplying gumballs. George |
The Village Idiots Elite user Orlando 464 Posts |
This isn't following your guidelines exactly but once it happened to us. Wally' suitcase did not make it and mine did. I was standing on stage in a suit whilst he was wearing kahki shorts and a white Tshirt.
We started making fun of the fact from the start of the show and it built until finally.. Wally introduced our big finale stunt that we would like to do, "the globe of death", where in we would ride around each other on motorcycles inside of a giant round cage, unfortunatly it was in the suit case. So my point is, you can make it up. Claim that you would like to perform the giant drill of death but it was in your suitcase so you pull out an egg beater. Sillily, Will
Some are born idiots.
Some are made idiots. Some have idiocy thrust upon them. |
Ryan Price Special user winnipeg, MB, Canada 641 Posts |
I was actually thinking about something similar in the car today heading to a birthday. Since I perform mostly for children and families I actually started thinking about interesting wands. The most obvious thing that would get a laugh would be a toilet plunger as a wand
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Rupert Bair Inner circle ? 2179 Posts |
"My act usually has 1. loud music (cheer), 2. big explosives (cheer) and 3. big las Vegas style illusions (cheer)"
"Unfortunately we will have to make do tonight as they lost my props at the Airline, don't worry it wasn't on the plane, I was actually filling my tires up and misplaced my bags." 1. Have an Ipod with docking station playing quietly. Every time you need music you could leave the mike next to the ipod (of coarse you really just have them play it through there sound system) 2. Have a small bang, a hand flasher or something. 3. Make an illusion from everyday items, check out Andrew Mayne's stuff "I usually use a trick deck but this ordinary deck will have to do since I lost my magic pack, I will warn you I've tried to do magic with a normal deck, and it went horribly horribly wrong. So bare with me." Double bluff them and use a fake deck Quadro Vicious Circles seems perfect for this. "You seen those magicians with those shiny rings that link together?...I lost mine so I had to make my own this afternoon. I found some supplies on a gate of an asylum(/prison/kindergarten of rough neighborhood)" (those kids are like animals! talking of animals...) "Not only did they/I loose my magic they/I also lost my animals. So I went looking for some animals I could use insted, don't worry I found this little fella on the side of the road. Show dead rocky by tail (paint him with bits of red for adult shows, his tail could keep dropping off). CPR and go into routine. Maybe at the end of your act you could have a stage hand bring you on your lost case "Mr Gross your case has turned up!" look nervous and begin pulling out the same junk you had in your act... "Ok Folks this was my act! Goodnight! M:C |
AaronTheMagician Loyal user 291 Posts |
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On 2007-05-06 12:59, Matt Colman wrote: No kidding, I was doing the bit where you hit rocky really hard and kill him. (No live animals!?) and I hit him WAY too hard. He broke apart at the tail and his torso went sailing. He's still in pieces, and I'm trying to find a way to maybe just velcro or weakly attatch the tail back... as it was the funniest thing you could possibly imagine happening. |
C Christian Loyal user 288 Posts |
The brown paper bag of death that phrase alone conjures up more images...so I will leave it at that.
Cup and ball routine with a coffe bean can & rolled up toilet pape that all I can come up with for now |
Jonace Regular user 130 Posts |
Come out with your briefcase and open it. Look inside and pull out a bowling shorts. Say somthing like " this is not mine" This has to belong to a bowler.
hen remove a bowlingball (bowlingball from briefcase)and you can no go on with a mixed lougage theme. And pull out everything you need from the brefcase. |
rhiro Regular user Southern California 182 Posts |
Torn and Restored Tissue using toilet seat covers.
Recognizable items that could've been lifted from your hotel might work: Shower Curtain Foulard of Mystery. (Produce the spare tire out of your rental car.) Cut and Restored Hair Dryer Electrical Cord. (But only the types hotels have screwed to the wall. You lost your luggage, right?) Ironing Board Suspension. Zombie Iron. Rigging it to belch "steam" might be fun. Mike Caveney's Linking Coathangers. Miser's Dream with a hotel ice bucket. Productions from a wastebasket or a dresser drawer "borrowed" from your hotel room. Something with that little Mr. Coffee pot that many hotels have. (Fishbowl production?) Tricks with hotel silverware and serving trays. Multiplying mini shampoo or mini bar bottles. Something with those disposable plastic shower caps. Maybe you can wheel your props in using one of those bell boy carts... Have fun, Ross Hironaka |
jakeg Inner circle 1741 Posts |
Linking coat hangers
Cut & restored mike cord vanishing handkerchief Slydini's napkins over the head torn & restored newspaper (local paper) torn & restored napkins w/ sucker ending (take napkin off table if possible) I guess that there are probably a hundred or more routines that would fit in. I like the set-up. The airlines are always losing luggage. |
Father Photius Grammar Host El Paso, TX (Formerly Amarillo) 17161 Posts |
Primise to my cards up the sleeve routine (which I cleaverly stole and modified from Mark Wilson's spongeball up the sleeve routine). I claim to have either lost luggage with my "special coat" or that I didn't get to the cleaners in time to pick up my special coat that has the tube in it that runs up my sleeve across over my shoulders and down into my pocket. I say,"I'd like to do the trick for you, but unfortunately I don't have my special coat, but if I did have it I would make a card go like this up my sleeve, over , across, down, and into my pocket" etc. Constantly apologizing for not having my coat, and thus inable to do the trick. Worst, part, after doing it in front of a magic club once, I got several offers to buy my coat.
"Now here's the man with the 25 cent hands, that two bit magician..."
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Mattillusion Regular user 170 Posts |
I like this premise. Tim Gabrielson used to use this type of hook by featuring things that you could buy at the grocery store...Animal Crackers, TRIX cereal, Ketchup etc. He just got his own daytime show in Vegas.
How about the Salt Pour: "I was going to perform the ancient Egyptian illusion, "Sands of the Desert" but that fell through the cracks, so I borrowed this from IHOP. (salt shaker)" |
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