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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
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On 2013-07-16 21:21, Vick wrote: In showbiz, personality is everything imho.
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George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
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On 2013-07-05 14:03, Michael Kamen wrote: There's a "formula" to address this, and Shakespeare and his contemporaries often used it. They were aware that their audiences consisted of both the "upper classes" and the "lower classes," and they played to both. The upper classes got their innuendos about politics, shenanigans at court, and other contemporary stuff, and the lower classes got their bawdy references and barbs at the upper classes. We miss out on a lot of this nowadays because we're not in tune with Elizabethan times. But now and then he came up with a line that could mean different things to the different classes and still be in context with the story. There's a point in Hamlet where he's talking about being mad and says "I know a hawk from a handsaw." For all we know, this could have been a contemporary expression. However, it could mean "I have all my marbles" to the upper classes, and "I know a mortar board from a handsaw" to the laboring classes, some of whom would know that a hawk is a plasterer's tool used to hold mortar, and take it as a barb at the upper classes who didn't work. There are some hilarious entries on this line in Wikipedia. Point being, ol' Shakey tried to appeal to "everyone" in his audiences. But he was as much a businessman as an artist.
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Pop Haydn Inner circle Los Angeles 3691 Posts |
Billy McComb always put in a few jokes for the smart people, and at least one in every show that no one will get. He felt that if his most obscure bits got a laugh, it would likely be from the reviewer, who will think that Billy was "too smart" for the room.
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Anatole Inner circle 1912 Posts |
Magic quite obviously falls into the category of "performing arts" along with singing, dancing, stand-up comedy, circus, etc. I would think an integral aspect and goal of any of the performing arts would be to _entertain_ the public. The prime reason that anyone goes to a show to see any performance--whether it's a magic act or a Shakespearean tragedy--is to be entertained.
To quote some lines from the song "That's Entertainment" by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz: The clown with his pants falling down Or the dance that's a dream of romance Or the scene where the villain is mean That's entertainment! ----- Sonny P.S. I wrote an extra stanza for the Schwartz/Dietz song specifically referencing a magic act. It goes like this (with apologies to Schwartz and Dietz): A trick where the hands are more quick Than the eyes is a pleasant surprise, And you say as you go on your way: That's entertainment!
----- Sonny Narvaez
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