English
STAGE BY STAGE
john graham
Stage by internship by John Graham and Vanishing Inc. is the ultimate guide to create your own magic show. John has devoted his entire career to perfect his stage show and he is finally ready to share with you the fruit of a whole life of learning. In these pages, you will find a roadmap to go from the magic of close-ups to the magic of living room or stage.
The magnitude of this book is amazing. It is a remarkable mixture of tests and routines, accompanied by magnificent illustrations, which helps you develop a professional and neat number.
You will learn everything you need to know about creating a stage show, the conversion of magic that you are already doing to play in front of more important crowds to the importance of accessories management, and even how to create a Modular show that allows you to easily intervene certain laps as required.
The details are unrivaled. You will have an exclusive overview of each stage of the planning, realization and improvement process of your show. Everything, from the towers to the transitions between them, as well as the way of preparing a show and organizing your lists of songs. John even looks at the changes he has brought over the years and, above all, the why of these changes.
There is something for each type of artist and each level of competence in Stage by Stage. But if you are a closed-up magician who has always wanted to jump towards stage magic, then this book is an essential reading.
Throughout the internship by internship, you will find more than a dozen complete routines, ranging from an amazing ring effect on a rope which leads to the appearance of a ring borrowed in a envelope sealed in the Super version Commercial of John on a classic effect by Paul Harris which ends with the name of a spectator spelled on the back of the playing cards.
You will also learn the ins and outs of an exceptional effect known as "Buffalo John", which is essentially an act of 25 minutes alone. Your spectators will fall from their chair by laughing during this wild adventure inspired by a Harry Anderson number. More importantly, you will see how more than 25 years of experience can be used to create the best number possible.
The best magicians in the world do not praise praise on internship by internship. Here is what some of them had to say:
"John Graham did what I thought I was impossible. He wrote a book that explains in an orderly way how to put on a comic magic show. I mean, really, really, step by step, how you can go from a person who Perform some good magic tricks closely for a couple of friends to someone who can present a full -stage magic show, who tears, for hundreds of strangers ... if you want to make a magic show Stand-up hand, I think you can not do better than make this extraordinary book your Bible. "
- Mac King
"John Graham is the real deal when it comes to working for real people in the real world. I know how difficult it is to bring your magic on stage. This book will save you years of tests and errors . "
- David Blaine
"It is an astonishing book on magic, full of all the things that magic books never dare to explain. Yes, the towers are wonderful, but the author also gave us the" what ", the" where ", The" when "and the" why "of magic. Have I forgotten the" who "? It is John Graham's book, step by step, and it is difficult to imagine that anyone in the field of Magic does not benefit from its ideas. "
- Jim Steinmeyer
"Even experienced artists will find a large quantity of precious information in these pages. The author explains much more than the simple mechanics of the towers. He enters the details that make his equipment work in the real world, from the management of Accessories to the way the towers are played in relation to the routines before and after ... I had the privilege of using "name-drug" before it was published, and it has instantly become one Strengths of my show. You can easily create a whole show from the content of this book, with towers like "Final Sale", where a member of the public chosen at random guess the price of your jacket; another favorite is "Now and Later", an effect where you seem to take the lasso a card to play at random. I find that the method is as beautiful as the effect. "
- Asi Wind
