Mark Paulson was feeling devilish this evening as he performed “Treasure Hunt Prediction” by Henry Holava. Mark’s presentation involved a Christmas gift twist where he received the only lump of coal, while everyone else who chose a bag received gold chocolate coins. Mark said that he had been a bad boy as he removed his cap to reveal horns on his head!
Chuck Kleiner performed a very nice “lie detector” routine where after a card was freely chosen and mixed back into the deck, the spectator named each card as he turned it over and when he got to the chosen card Chuck could tell by his voice that it was the chosen card. Chuck was able to take this performance even further with a phone call to “The Wizard”. Without any verbal interaction from Chuck at all, the spectator called a phone number who then proceeded to perform same routine over the phone.
Ed Loveland performed some great close up coin productions, changing 1 coin into 4 and then moving into a very visual four silver dollar from cards production where the spectator twice choose two cards and Ed would produce a coin from each pair. Ed then tore one card in half and produced the 3rd coin from those halves and finally tore the last half card in half to produce the 4th coin.
Dan Kennedy started off with an empty hand sponge ball production that looked very magical, splitting the single ball into two and continuing with a quick two ball routine. Dan did a great close up magic piece with large glass beads representing five sheep and two robbers where the beads changed places in his hands at the end.
Ken Mash performed a Las Vegas dice routine where a single dice changed color to green, then red. The dice transformed into a single die made up of smaller multi-colored dice, and finally to a large multi-colored die.
Larry Dimmitt performed a nice hypnotism piece where he convinced the spectator that the chosen card wasn’t to be found in the deck. Larry also did a mind reading trick that included writing down the correct prediction from three different spectators.
Jim Earnshaw performed Jay Sankey’s “No Jacket Required”, followed up with the “explanation” of how the trick works by showing 4 coins getting “stored inside” of one coin via Sankey’s “Mass Consumption” coin routine.
Bob McSwane performed a nice “prediction gone wrong” card trick with large cards, only to reveal the chosen card in a very direct visual transformation. Bob also pulled out his pet monkey to help reveal a chosen card. Bob’s performance style was very engaging.