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Washington Magic Enjoy a magical evening of romance, comedy and magic tricks. This show honors the Victorian era tradition of stage and parlor as these magicians perform impossible mind reading, classical magic tricks and wild stunts in the outrageously elegant Arts Club of Washington.
The Final Chapter: The Ninth Strategy: Empower Belief
The Final Chapter: THE NINTH STRATEGY: EMPOWER BELIEF Magic is not tricks; it is a way. —Tenkai Ishida Scene: This really happened to David Morey, who was doing his one-man play, A Magical Way of Thinking, at the D.C. Capitol Fringe Festival a few years ago. Onstage with him was a charming five-year-old from the audience. Laura was […]
The Eighth Strategy: Overcome And Prevail
THE EIGHTH STRATEGY: OVERCOME AND PREVAIL Never, never, never give up. —Winston Churchill Scene: This really happened. Lance Burton achieved the accolade reserved for the greatest of Las Vegas headliners: his own stage in his own theater. The first American to win the Gold Medal awarded by the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques—the “Olympics of Magic”—in […]
The Seventh Strategy: Grab The Dialogue
THE SEVENTH STRATEGY: GRAB THE DIALOGUE —Whoever plays offense first wins. —Bill Clinton Scene: This really happened. Like most sons, Harry Blackstone, Jr. imagines following in his father’s footsteps. Three decades before, the father, Harry Blackstone, Sr., made a borrowed handkerchief dance impossibly and mischievously alongside his audience’s imagination. Now, it’s 1987. The son enters the […]
The Sixth Strategy: Redirect Your Audience
THE SIXTH STRATEGY: REDIRECT YOUR AUDIENCE Start the fire in the east; attack in the west. —Sun Tzu Scene: This really happened. Tony Slydini, born Quintino Marucci in Italy in 1900, learned the rudiments of magic from his amateur magician father. The boy was never much interested in grand props and great stages, but focused instead on […]
The Fifth Strategy: Cheat Preemptively
THE FIFTH STRATEGY: CHEAT PREEMPTIVELY “Losers react, leaders anticipate.” —Tony Robbins Scene: Recall the story of Max Malini, told in the introduction. It really happened. Back in the 1920s, Malini, a world-famous magician especially renowned for his “spontaneous” close-up magic, stunned a U.S. senator, who asked him, at a formal dinner party, to “do a trick.” […]
The Fourth Strategy: Disorganize Innovation
THE FOURTH STRATEGY: DISORGANIZE INNOVATION “There’s something about the center of any bureaucracy— it’s as if the water tastes different there….” —Robert Shapiro Scene: This really happened. We are in the suburban Las Vegas home of Jeff McBride, one of the best magicians in the world today. Gathered here are some of the other top American magicians, […]
The Third Strategy: Imagine First
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” —Albert Einstein Scene: This really happened . It’s 1983, and the world’s most famous illusionist, David Copperfield, is performing in a worldwide television special—his ninth. This time, he’s in China. Think China, and you cannot help but think Great Wall. Now, with the cameras feeding video across the planet, and with […]
The Second Strategy: Reboot Aspiration
“A computer on every desk and in every home” —Bill Gates Scene: This really happened. It’s the early 1920s, and Harry Houdini is the world’s most celebrated magician. Right now, he’s sitting behind a closed curtain, having just escaped from one of his signature magical props, the Chinese Water Torture Cell. Moments ago, onstage before a […]