On Oct. 30th, The Emerald City Wizards put on a performance for the Sunrise Senior Living community on Mercer Island, WA. The show featured members Larry Dimmitt, Jim Earnshaw, Chuck Kleiner and Ed Loveland with club President Mark Paulson providing master of ceremonies duties. The group felt that the show was a great success and is looking forward to more performances in the future.
At the regular meeting, Ed Loveland preformed a nice story driven routine around the sinking of the Titanic. He showed two spectators various pictures of people from the Titanic and each person decided if the person shown in the picture had lived or died. After all the pictures were sorted it turned out that the choices made by the spectators were correct.
Larry Dimmitt told a great story of a gypsy who could determine the name of a person of importance to a spectator with fortune cards. Larry had Dan think of a person and presented him with fortune cards that eventually pointed to cards in a wallet. When Larry took out the cards they spelled the name of the person Dan was thinking of.
Mark Paulson had Larry shuffle a deck of cards and turned over one card at a time having Larry stop whenever he liked. Mark had a “big money” (a large size hundred dollar bill) bet that his prediction card would match the card that Larry stopped at. It turned out Mark was able to keep the money as his prediction card matched.
Dan Kennedy performed a nice quick trick with a small wooden bell that passed through a solid rod. Dan framed the trick around a Houdini story line. Dan also performed a card prediction effect where he had the spectator choose two cards he called for.
Jim Earnshaw practice for the group a quick set of magic he was trying to get ready for a future performance that included a bullet catch duck using a wooden card duck.