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Samuel Catoe Inner circle South Carolina 1268 Posts |
What is your favorite routine? Why?
There are rules to this question. First, you must PERFORM this routine in your program or have performed it in the past (once does not count). Second, no stock routines. This means the patter must be your own not someone elses or the patter that came with the purchase. Third, one and one routine only may be explained. You can however just mention the titles of some of your other pet routines. Fourth, you must say why it is your favorite. My favorite routine is (and this is a hard one to narrow down) my magic teapot routine. I like it because it was my very first full routine that I came up with. The patter is all me and centers around teas of the world. I even researched tea so that the patter would be factual. At least most of it. I have other routines that I like to perform but this is my best loved.
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Ross W Inner circle UK 1778 Posts |
OK - you got me. What's your magic teapot routine, samuel? Sounds fun!
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Scott F. Guinn Inner circle "Great Scott!" aka "Palms of Putty" & "Poof Daddy G" 6586 Posts |
I'd have to say my sponge ball routine. It is the routine I have performed more than any other. It evolved over a decade of real world performance, the patter is all mine, I have performed it in virtually every venue possible and for audiences from 1 to 500. It has never failed to get a great reaction and is my most-requested routine.
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Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
Lately I have really enjoyed performing a
"teleport routine," with the opening and closing effects very familiar to everyone here (probably) and the central effect is one a friend and I developed ourselves without knowing where else it has been duplicated: The hook and theme of the short routine is "teleportation," an important skill for magicians... 1. Using the color-changing knives, I do the simple transposition from hand to hand. 2. A spectator picks a card from a red deck, replaces the card--and then holds the deck while I spread through the blue deck where a red-backed card has appeared. The spectator's card is in fact missing from the red deck--and of course it is found to be the card which seems to have teleported to the blue deck. 3. Using a pouch insted of a pocket, I do the standard hopping half effect. As I do the effect, though, I make sure the English Penny and Half Dollar end up in the pouch in the original condition, so that at the end when my hands are empty, I can show the coins have teleported together into the pouch. (I have had people in the past accuse me of ending up with a pocketful of coins after doing the "hopping half" effect, and I want to clear this suspicion.) While they look at the pouch, I pocket switch for clean coins. I think this is my favorite now because I really do like transposition and teleport effects better than most others! I really look forward to hearing the favorite routines or sets of effects of other magicians! alleycat
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Chris A. Inner circle AKA Chris A. 1123 Posts |
Quote: Scott, before I read your routine, I wasn't that interested in sponge ball magic. Your peanut butter and jelly routine is so good that I'm inspired to give it a go! On 2002-09-28 03:27, Scott F. Guinn wrote:
AKA Chris A.
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metaphyzix Regular user 129 Posts |
I guess it'd have to be "womans intuition". It's my favorite (or at least one of my favorites. I can't really think cuz I'm in my school library).
Whenever friends ask for a demonstration of chicanery, it's one of the first tricks I think of... that, and the Balducci levitation. I like it because it's impact is wonderful, it's easy to do, it's straightforward, direct, and the patter is ALL MINE! I've done it for audiences ranging from 1 to 50,000,000. |
kakronen Regular user 107 Posts |
I really like peanut buter and jelly too. The patter and handling make it an excellent routine. It resets instantly
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paulapaul Regular user Nevada 173 Posts |
The Challenge.
It began as an improbable piece of music, and became my show closer. A producer that I worked with wanted to do an adagio (dance) number to the music from Beauty and the Beast. At the end of adagio, Beast carries Beauty off the stage, and she drops the rose he has given her as they exit. Enter magician. Some very moody music was sent to me, along with the request to possibly use the 2 dancers somewhere in the routine. And, by the way, could we close the show with it? (?!?!!) The music had change-ups that broke the continuity I would need for an illusion. But listening to it through the third time, a manipulation routine "wrote itself". It is so perfectly matched to the music that it looks like the music was custom-written for the routine. I use long-stemmed roses, fingertip roses, rose buds, fire, The Mummy (Illusionette), zombie and a flying bird. It turned out to be my favorite number. Ever. I still use a solo version to close my show. After getting laughs with comedy magic and Ahhhs with illusions and routines to pumped tempos ... It is wonderful to totally focus on the magic and magician at the close. All the rose and fire moves are my own, the dress where I hide a lot is a one-of-a-kind costume I designed, and even the "Claw-Tree" prop was built to my specifications. The combination of the music and the effects has several places that get guaranteed applause. The music is sensitive during the roses, then builds and puts in accents for the rapid production of fingertip flowers, then swirls for the snowstorm. Once the Zombie starts, there is more mystery and smoothness in the music, until suddenly it breaks into a naughty musical phrase. Naturally, the Zombie pulls a little stunt behind my back during the naughty music. (A favorite Paula-thing is to do a moment of levity during drama.) In the end, as the voices in the music swell, I pick up a 6 foot walking stick that bursts into flames in the sphere on the top. (I made it myself.) Then a bird flies to me. Overall, very satisfying magic to perform. Paula |
Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
I really enjoyed the visual description of your favorite routine, Paulapaul.
I just want to change my vote for favorite (close-up) routine: 1. Skinner's Ultimate Monte 2. Scott's 2 Cups and Ball effect (combo) 3. Scott's Penut, Butter and Jelly Somehow these three effects seem to blend well together into a colorful routine. I am still only in the practice stages, but I really like this set of effects. alleycat
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