Jon Armstrong came to Denver for our April meeting. He performed a wonderful 3 Card Monte using blank cards. Needless to say for the first few guesses, we found the blank card every time! Then, Jon had one of the two spectators; Mike and Gary, sign their name on the blank card. They found their card a few times, then Jon changed it up by adding a sticker on the back of their card to help them keep track of their card. Obviously they lost, but what a cool idea to use blank cards.
Next he taught us an easy way to do a fool proof classic force and did his version of an Eddie Field’s card trick where the spectator dropped a poker chip randomly on a face down spread out deck of cards. Their card was found and Jon shared with us the proper way to do a top change.
He also performed his Tiny Plunger routine, which was amazing, a rubber band through the neck, a gin pick to double lift cards that were tabled! Lastly, Jon performed his Out of this World card trick.
Our second magic lecturer for April was magician David Corsaro. David performed and shared his secrets for Mad About You, Getting to Know You – which is wonderful way to make your magic more personable for your audience. Wild Birthday can be perform at children’s magic show where the birthday guest goes home with a gold coin.
Mallrats is a Peter Duffy effect that had us all confused until he told us the secret! He shared many ideas to increase the number of your shows and profits, how to select a person from the audience so they feel they are a valued helper, how to approach a table while doing restaurant magic. David also shared what he keeps in his ‘Emergency Kit’ in case he is asked to perform.
The Baby Gag was fun to see, and Baci is a great trick where Hershey Kiss’s appeared! His last effect was Can I Call You Sometime? His collection of female phone numbers written on cocktail napkins was presented. Matt, our past president, randomly picked ‘Nicole’s’ number. The deck was cut into four piles. The cards were shuffled face up and face down, what a mess…. in the end, magically all of the cards turned face down except Nicole’s phone number to a great applause!
We meet the second Thursday of the month at RiverPointe Senior Community (5225 S Prince St, Littleton, CO 80123).
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March Madness usually means basketball, but not in the Mile High City; we had one club meeting and three guest lecturers! We started off with our annual Flea Market, and members bought and sold magic treasures that were old to some and new magic to others. The sellers at the flea market each donated quality items, which were raffled to the attendees.
We also had Tom Frank demonstrate 4 Aces, 3 Fly, Cups and Balls with a cool way to load a ball under the cup, Tom’s Poetry Linking Ring routine was very good. Silk Scarf and Coin routine based on Dai Vernon’s Silk and Silver was presented and explained well. Tom also performed a very cool signed card to wallet. Seven of our members were called forward, each selected a card, the cards were then lost in the deck and Tom found all seven!
Martin Mercy was next and he demonstrated his opening acts, and talked about restaurant magic. Flash paper was used and magically a Hershey Kiss was produced that was given to Kitty Spangler. John Luong helped out with a gambling effect called Indian Casino Blackjack. Connie Elston helped with a ‘Love’s Me, Love’s Me Not’ card effect! Three different effects were presented with an Invisible deck that Chad Darnell helped with and then there was the Bermuda Triangle coin effect in which member Jim Murphy placed numerous coins in the Bermuda Triangle and they kept vanishing! Jeff Stark helped out with a Mentalism trick.
Eric Jones was another of our Magic Madness Month lecturers. He performed the coolest 3 Fly coin routine we have seen in a long time. Eric spent 45 minutes teaching us the moves, letting us practice and checking our progress. Members Dale and Mysto along with Preston and John helped with different card routines. Eric taught Chad a cool flying coin vanish that ended up in your pants pocket. When the coin vanished and you heard the “clink” of it landing in his pocket it was amazing! Eric’s last trick was a rising card trick that was spectacular. Thanks Eric and you got the standing ovation, well done!
We meet the second Thursday of the month at RiverPointe Senior Community (5225 S Prince St, Littleton, CO 80123).
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Comedy night was well attended and was a great time to get together with magicians that we haven’t seen in a while. We also welcomed a couple of new members who signed up that night to our club as well. Steve Spangler told us some fun pranks you can play on the school nurse and his boys, Mark and Scott performed a “voice protector” on their grandma, Kitty, which was the sword through the neck. Next was a bottle of water that had holes poked in it so when it was opened it would dribble all over you. AJ Perea helped out with the bounce, no bounce balls.
Aiden Darnell and Danny Baldini did a tribute to Tom Bergoon with Timmy toilet paper and Peppe.
Gene Gordon’s helpers were Max Hansen and Jean-Luc. Max helped with more bounce, no bounce routines, while Jean-Luc helped with the pencil through bill routine. Max and Aiden helped Gene perform a card and thumb cuff trick where Max’s signed card was found under a cloth while being bound in the cuffs.
Jeff and Karen Wake performed a myriad of tricks with a mirror box, cups and balls, and a production box to a dueling cowboy magicians theme with banjo music.
Steve Aldrich was our next performer did a fun trick with scarf’s producing a ‘strawberry spread’ and has his ‘mystery box the infantibulum’ where scarfs would appear and disappear at random!
Our ventriloquist was Ned Nebalski who did silent trick needless to say we were all speechless!
Brad Montgomery did a juggling routine, card trick and shish kabobbed his tongue to amaze us all.
Shawn Popp did his 1-100 dollar bill routine with his helpers Luis and Tanya. Mary helped him with a fun card to pocket trick.
Door prizes where given away from Steve Spangler and Brad Montgomery and we had good food!
We meet the second Thursday of the month at RiverPointe Senior Community (5225 S Prince St, Littleton, CO 80123).
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The first meeting of the year started out with a magical attendance of fifty plus magic enthusiasts. Mark Weidhass and Lindsay Smith performed a joint IBM and SAM installation of the 2015 officers. The meeting, expertly organized by Lindsay Smith, was “From Page to Stage” and featured members of the Mile High Magicians’ Society that have been featured on the cover of MUM Magazine. It was a great line up of magicians from the front range. First up was Mark Weidhass and he performed at $10 to $100 bill change with large laminated money. A signed $20 bill vanished and stack of prize cards presented to the volunteer who picked. She chose a lemon! One lemon, freely chosen, contained her signed $20 bill!
Next up was Chris Manos whose magic had a movie theme. A movie trivia was part of his act. A rack of popular DVDs were brought on stage and a prediction movie was at the top. The volunteer picked a movie, turn the back of the DVD case toward the audience to eliminate it from the rest. The eliminated movie cancelled out that current row and column. As the movie choices were whittled down, the numbers on the remaining front DVD covers added up to the prediction movie “The Miracle on 34th Street”.
Our next magicians were Dan and Mano Rodriguez doing a seven bill repeat around a McDonald’s theme. The slow motion reveal was great for the “brief trick” that was performed also.
From there Bruce and Kitty Spangler were up and we watched movies of them performing on Gene’s Junction. They performed a silk color change after drinking a magical potion. Bruce presented Kitty with a white bouquet of flowers, after tossing them into the audience, they reappeared as a red bouquet Kitty was holding the entire time.
Danny Archer sent in a video of himself performing “coins across” since he was out of town.
Rich Nakata did a great job performing the classic cups and balls and “turned the table on each and everyone of us”.
Gary helped Autumn MorningStar with a TNR newspaper trick and helped him fix his torn pieces into a complete newspaper. She tied it all together into magical story.
Once again, Jeff and Karen Wake provided wonderful snacks and others volunteered to bring other goodies. Thank you to Lindsay Smith for organizing a wonderful meeting!
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