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walid ahumada
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If you do, let it say, 1 hour show, and you are getting hired for a customer that want you to do the performance in two parts, here are the questions:

do you just break the performance in two parts?, or

do you have to look for two diferent openings, and two diferent closings to do a two little routines?
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Just a thought -- end the first half with an effect half completed -- a mystery shared without resolution and no obvios result. Then you can start the second hald with the resolution and magic -- possibly a completley unanticipated result.
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If the audience is the same for both parts then the second can be a continuation of the first; If it is a different audience then you should treat them as separate performances with each having and opening and closing.
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Hopefully sometime in the first set you have established your personality with the audience and won't have to re-do that, but in the interest of good theatrics if it were me I would definitely have an opener and closer for each of the sets.
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On 2010-09-12 18:30, Gerald Deutsch wrote:
If the audience is the same for both parts then the second can be a continuation of the first; If it is a different audience then you should treat them as separate performances with each having and opening and closing.


yes, most of the audience is the same, I am working in a night club, they have a music band, then the magician, and again the band.

But now the owner wanna do it -band-magician-band-magician-band-
does anybody here have the same situation?
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It sounds like a good situation and you should leave the audience wanting more after each "segment" so they don't wish for the band to hurry back.
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