By Club President Dale Trueman
Ring 102 Sydney NSW Australia – The Maurice Rooklyn Ring
Meets 3rd Tuesday Every Month at 7:30pm at Northside Chatswood Salvation Army Church Hall Cnr. Bertram and Johnson Street Chatswood. Dale Trueman President email daletrueman@me.com
Club President Dale Trueman opened the meeting with a reminder that next month is our AGM.
He then introduced the evening’s host Phouc Can Hua with the theme Silent or Musical Magic.
Phuouc and John Kanawati came on dressed as Siegfried and Roy dancing to lively music and with the help of audience members tied up Roy (John) with a rope around his neck and wrists. To great fanfare Roy easily and impossibly escaped.
Next was Conway Restom with some smooth Jazz music and an antique top hat. Conway displayed a blue backed deck of cards and one by one all the aces magically appeared. The backs of the aces were shown to be blue but in a moment all turned red. Next thing you know the entire deck had changed to red backs.
Peter Wood then peformed Joshua Jay’s balance to music of his own making and afterwards asked if he should leave it on the table, the music disagreed so he quickly packed it away.
Stephen Bell entertained the group by producing a number of items from behind a jacket held stretched out in front of him. This included a clown’s nose, a top hat, flowers that then bloomed, a toy rabbit, and evil toy rabbit and finally a cockatoo! (Puppet)
John Kanawati spoke about a relationship between learning closeup magic and learning to play music before showing off a one coin routine that used a sharpie as a wand. Both the coin and the sharpie appeared and disapeared from his hands repeatedly until out of the blue the coin became a wristwatch.
Jack Sharp then played the part of a hapless magician peforming a number of routine beginners tricks set to It’s a Kind of Magic by Queen. He was hilariously “accidentally” exposing the methods as he went. Thanks to Jack we now know the mysteries of solving a rubiks cube in a paper bag, the two card monte, the card with a changing number of spots on each side, a floating zombie ball style bread roll. a prediction of the three of hearts as a chosen card, the ball and vase, a disapearing silk and linking rope rings.
Phouc returned to the front and cut a sheet of newspaper at various angles. When he finished what was left was two rings of paper linked together.
Peter Wood then performed a perfect version of Losander’s floating table with Phouc as his volunteer.
Andy Nunn broke the theme for the evening and correctly divined a name, a four digit number and a picture all written/drawn on paper by volunteers. He recommended the Mark Paul masterclass to anyone wanting to learn more about it.
Garry Davis performed an Aldo Colombini routine where four blue backed cards changed one by one to red and then back again to blue.
Finally Otto performed a version of a Hot Rod routine with a “diamond” on a stick.
We finished with supper and chat.
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