This month’s theme was what did Santa bring me, so anyone who received some magic and wanted to perform could. Steve Davis did a wonderful Three Card Monte, Glenn Proulx showed us his new trick where a bottle of OJ turned into a bottle of Coke-Cola. Annamya George told us how practicing card magic helped him strengthened his fractured wrist. He showed us how he found four aces in a brand new deck and produced cards from mid air. Peter correctly matched 12 pop star musicians while face down on the table. Then, Dan Rodriquez, the first Ronald McDonald in Denver performed a Jumbo Card trick where the helper had a ‘free choice’, not really, we all thought and then the Jumbo Card completely changed into a totally different card and fooled us all. Brad Montgomery showed us his cardistry skills. Gene Gordon performed a ‘Coins in Cylinder’ trick that was very good and finally Chad Wonder had a plastic frame where psychic symbol cards were placed in slots and they perfectly matched each other and did a linking ring made out of barb wire trick.
Matt Fore also did a zoom presentation and talked about his KIOS system (killing it on stage). He wowed us by doing gags, stuck beans in his eye, mouth and nose and after some snorting all the beans regrouped in his mouth and he spit them in his hand. Rubber bands jumped through his wrist, a birthday kid would win the full bag of Milky Way candy bars. He also pulled a rope through a ladies neck. Matt said that opening lines and Segway’s are very important to keep the show going fast and fun. A call back is when you first show an object empty container and then you go back to that container and low and behold the missing object is inside after all! He did this multiple times and his hands never went near the container.