Headlining Las Vegas comedian and
magician Mac King, whose show is a favorite for parents and kids alike, has
created the official Mac King’s Magic in a Minute Suitcase-O-Magic, loaded
with gags and magic tricks that are simple and fun for kids and adults.
Mac King’s Magic in a Minute Suitcase-O-Magic features the look of King’s
real on-stage magic suitcase along with characters from his nationally
syndicated comic strip. It can be purchased at Barnes & Noble stores
nationwide ($14.95) and on Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com).
“These are tricks that any kid can perform,” said Mac King. “I had a
great deal of fun putting this together for young aspiring magicians. The
Suitcase-O-Magic offers a rare opportunity to learn magic from a professional
magician.”
Mac King’s Magic in a Minute Suitcase-O-Magic offers more than 50 amazing
magic tricks, a 64-page book and a one-hour instructional DVD that features
King demonstrating and explaining many of the tricks.
Intended for kids eight
and older, the magic tricks are easy to learn while remaining challenging and
fun to watch.
King has been named Magician of the Year by The Magic Castle, a famed
organization of elite magicians based in Los Angeles, “Magician of the Year”
by Las Vegas Life 2005 and is a Guinness Book of World Records holder in 2004
for “The World Longest Game of Telephone.”
King, one of today’s brightest and
most talented magicians, performs The Mac King Comedy Magic Show twice daily,
Tuesday through Saturday, in Las Vegas at Harrah’s Las Vegas Casino & Hotel.
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We hear the premiere last Thursday went very well. The venue couldn't be better. He is performing at the very beautiful Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead. Mr. Turner's two shows (7:00 pm and 9:00 pm) were well-attended and made the Hyatt management very happy.
Mr. Turner describes his performance as something akin to "a club act" rather than a "theatrical or a parlor show."
While it would have been nice to put on a full-fledged parlor show, Mr. Turner had to modify his plans to accommodate some of the Hyatt's needs.
The show is presented in an intimate environment in a restaurant. The audience can enjoy drinks, desserts, coffee or Diet Coke, prior to the show.
Sounds perfect.
We have no idea how he will fit this within his already jammed schedule and travel around the hemisphere. Still, if Mr. Turner says he will perform in a given venue at a given time, he will be there performing — and that's a given.
We're guessing his dependability and professionalism probably have something to do with his tightly scheduled calendar. As much as clients want to hire popular magicians, they prefer popular magicians who will show up as scheduled.
Currently, Mr. Turner plans to perform the show on a monthly basis but as the word disseminates through the Greater Atlanta area, we're pretty sure he'll have to add shows.
The magicians of Atlanta, including the incomparable Dan Garrett attended to not only show their support but to be entertained. (See our corrected, republished, corrected, and published again review of Mr. Garrett's lecture here).
Dr. Jay M. Ungar and the Philosophy of MagicHe was originally going to
call it, The Shtick Is the Trick, but went with a more conventional
title, Bringing Magic to Life.
While the title may be more conventional, Dr. Ungar and his work is anything but.
His “Day Job” as an Internist. His “Fun Job” is as a very talented and successful magician.
In his “Day Job” he is Dr. Ungar. In his “Fun Job” he is “Ragnu the OK.”
It
only took us about ten minutes to figure out “Ragnu” is “Ungar”
backwards.
Of course, we did have subtle hints on Dr. Ungar’s web
site explaining what Ragnu meant. But we’ve never been known to
take the easy way out, or to read directions. We hope we haven’t
ruined the surprise for you.
He’s worked shows in venues as
diverse as local retirement homes and inner-city health centers, to Las
Vegas and big time theaters.
He is featured in the Massachusetts
daily The Republican for his diverse interests as well as his upcoming book-signing.
He calls his signing party, “Magic, Munchies and More.” The next one is schedule November 19th.
Don’t
expect this book to be an expos? of the magician’s art, an unmasking of
the sorcerer’s secrets. Yes, Ungar does give some step-by-step
direction and refers the reader to classic texts in which all is
revealed by masters of the trade. But that’s not what this book is
about.
“The real magic is not in the tricks,” says Ungar, “but in the
connection they create.”In “Bringing Magic to Life,” he spells out the
engaging stream of language, the “patter” and cajoling, that he uses
with each of his tricks.
It’s the part of magic that beginners
and aspirants may not think about very much. It’s the part that goes
beyond fooling the eye to touching the heart.
“My original title for the book was The Shtick Is the Trick,” says Ungar. Shtick is Yiddish for a show-business routine.
To
Ungar, the most important part of performing is not the “gotcha”
moment. Rather, it’s the process of talking to the audience, connecting
with them, drawing them into a conspiracy of fun.The book is about that
and more. “It’s a collection of thoughts, anecdotes and philosophy
about what brings magic into people’s lives,” Ungar says.
Dr. Ungar spent four years bringing to life the book Bringing Magic to Life.
He self-published the book and will dedicate any proceeds in excess of the printing costs to the Children’s Miracle Network.
The book has done well in early reviews:
“This
is a remarkable work… if you want to be different, remembered and
tell a tale that will have people talking about you long after you are
gone… then I envy you! For you are in for one heck of a ride.”
We entered the lecture room mid-way through his explanation of a paddle trick.
The effect was clever. On a white paddle upon which he wrote the volunteer’s name. Despite our concern that we had vastly over-rated Mr. Green’s abilities and the value of his lecture, we decided to wait out this one segment before leaving.
We remained in the lecture room for most of the day and evening.
Mr. Green, we learned, had an unique talent for hooking both laymen and magicians. As in the case of the paddle trick, he showed us not only a new routine and refined handling, but a clever way of leaving an audience member with a souvenir of the close-up routine. The white paddle ends with the spectator’s name on one side and the word “magic” on the opposite.
It was an unexpected twist and clever as all get out.
We liked Mr. Green’s style, substance and durability. He not only gave the morning lecture, he also held a special afternoon “workshop” for some of us for a very reasonable additional charge.
The morning lecture used many effects we all have purchased over the years but perhaps have not used or considered even finding.
Consider the venerable Magician’s Insurance Policy.
If aliens were to suddenly land on our planet to abduct all those who currently possess the Magician’s Insurance Policy for probing experiments, there would be only mimes available for kids’ parties. We’d be willing to bet our current Visa cash-advance credit limit we’d be feeling special — either “good special” or “bad special” in some space ship.
Mr. Green’s routine makes use of the Insurance Policy along the way but it is only one-third of the finale. In fact, it is not even the final revelation of the chosen card. His thinking on the effect was like a woosh of fresh air into a previously boarded home. It flung things around in our spider-web covered mental attic, and for the first time in a long time, we noticed things previously covered with dust.
Okay, maybe that’s overstating it. Still, it was a great routine and we did go so far as to buy a new policy from Mr. Green as well as the other prop for his three-part finale.
Mr. Green is known for his incredible mastery of The Classic Force. Later, during the evening close-up show, we watched as he successfully used The Classic Force five times in a row on the same person. He missed on his sixth attempt but hit it on the seventh.
He gave some instruction in the general lecture but his teaching during the workshop session was more in-depth and tailored to our individual needs.
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