Are you ready for Prime Time? That was our theme for this month. Do you have a trick or effect you want to work on, do you get nervous, do you have wobbly legs when performing for the club? Well, this was the night for those people to get in front of the club for more practice. Melissa Neumiller opened the evening with an an X-ray vision card trick where the deck of cards where shuffled up and down and she successfully told us how many cards where face up in the deck. She also trained cards to flip over one at a time in the deck, and finally, she had a fortune telling deck placed under her matt and predicted the next card pulled out from the card box. Jeff and Karen Wake gave us 13 tips to prevent wobbly legs and how to calm your nerves. They opened with a fun poem using knots and scarfs that was very entertaining. During intermission, Gregg Tobo’s hosted our new Point/Counter Point segment with Wendy and Mark debating the topic “Should mentalism have a disclaimer?”. To continue the Wobbly Legs evening, new member Jason Toepfer had a card selected, shuffled and then the cards were sprung to a card frame. The card was found under the glass inside the frame! It was his first time performing in front of people in years. He did a nice job, too. Jess Ward, also performed for the first time, and she did Ton Onosaka’s Card Mirage. She loves close-up magic! Glenn Proulx had two VCR tapes examined and then one melted right through the other. It was a strange old Jim Steinmeyer trick that Glenn made relevant in his routine. Our club got gifted several years of old Topps magazines. William Rader hosted a new segment for our meeting performing tricks from these old magazines. Gregg Tobo performed a mentalism card trick. . James Lopez found three selected cards from his spectators! Gene Gordon did a card trick. William also stole a watch, wallet, and sunglasses from his helpers after a card was picked, returned, and ended up reversed in the deck. Cool tricks from the old magazines! FISM winner, OLMAC was a guest lecturer who visited us several days later and did a great job teaching us card controls, routines, and vanished a cigarette lighter. He vanished a whole deck of cards more than once, did some coin magic, had a special super mini briefcase, which the spectators signed card ended up in, a credit card ended up in, and a finger ring! He has mad skills and is a pleasure to watch. He makes everything look so easy and so magical. If OLMAC comes through your town, try to book him!
Ring 131 and Assembly 37 meets the second Thursday of the month at Riverpointe Senior Community 5225 S Prince St, Littleton, CO 80123. https://www.milehighmagicians.comGlenn Proulx 303-794-5208, glennproulx@gmail.com