Tina has combined silent comedy with a touch of magic to produce a most unusual and enchanting act entitled “Maid in Heaven,” wherein a very sad and frumpy cleaning lady is magically transformed and finds happiness. Her pantomime skills were honed as a founding member of the L.A. Mime Company, a talented five-some who performed at colleges and appeared on... Read more
Archive for October, 2010
Biokinesis Not To Be Sold At Abbotts
October 30 | Posted by Greg Bordner | Abbott NewsAbbott Magic has decided it will not sell the Biokinesis props or Dvd due to legal requirements and safety issues. We realize this is a beautiful piece of magic but believe the risk is too much. Anytime anything having to do with something being put in your eyes should be done with a trained professional eye doctor and... Read more
Halloween Patter for the Zombie
October 27 | Posted by Gordon Miller | Abbott NewsI think the best way to present any floating trick is in a slow and spooky manner. In the following routine, you will find what I really believe to be a knockout effect. Special Patter (and Presentation): (Before the music starts to play, you tell the story as follows) “You may have been wondering what is this silver globe that I... Read more
Halloween Patter for Fraidy Cat Rabbit
October 27 | Posted by Gordon Miller | Abbott NewsThis is a very effective way of bringing a little spooky element into the classic kid show effect. “Many years ago, there was a little kingdom known as Rabbitonia and for many of those years this kingdom had a wise and kind king known as King Gzornin, the 44th. But one sad day, the good King dies, leaving no HARE (pointing... Read more
Is EXPOSURE another way to get Publicity?
October 27 | Posted by Greg Bordner | Abbott NewsI enjoyed reading Chuck’s article about exposure and wanted to expand a little more on exposure. The main point of Chuck’s article is that exposure has been around forever and is not going anywhere. With that in mind, is there any good that can come out of exposure, or in plain terms, is EXPOSURE another way to get Publicity? There is... Read more
The Exposure War-History Repeats
October 24 | Posted by Chuck Kleiber | Abbott NewsMagicians today are understandably upset at the exposure being done via the internet and television. Many good people are suggesting that magic itself might not survive. For example, let me quote an article that was sent in to Abbott’s from the Shawano Wisconsin Newspaper. An old-fashioned and regulation magic show was given for three days of the last week at the... Read more
Chavez Studio of Magic
October 23 | Posted by Greg Bordner | Featured ColumnsIn 1942 a young Neil Foster went to California to attend a magic school which he had read about in the magical press. That was the Chavez College of Magic. Here he met Ben and Marian Chavez for the first time. Ben Chavez became Neil’s idol and Neil described Marian Chavez as a “lovely lady who charmed me immediately with... Read more
VOTE For Toledo’s Got Talent
October 22 | Posted by Al The Only | Featured ColumnsIf you’re a regular attendee of the Get Together you know Andrew Martin. Andy is Mr. Magic in Toledo. He’s ALWAYS working, appearing on local TV shows, setting up exhibits at the libraries and just a great ambassador of magic. If you know Andy, you also know his son Eli is an award winning magician. Eli is on Toledo’s Got Talent... Read more
Dr. Scream Spook Show Revival
October 21 | Posted by Gordon Miller | Abbott NewsLooking for a fun time…… Greg, Hank and Jackie attended the Dr. Scream Spook Show Revival thurs night in Three Rivers, MI and recommend it. Keith Stickley brings the old time magic back. It’s a lot of fun at a inexpensive price. Here’s the dates for the rest of the shows. Friday, Oct, 22nd 9pm The Michigan Theater, Jackson, MI. Saturday, Oct 23 7pm The... Read more
New Tenyo Items Coming December 2010
October 20 | Posted by Greg Bordner | Abbott News4 new Tenyo items in limited quantities will arrive early December 2010. Additional inventory will be available February 2011. This first run will be available with English packaging and English instructions. After these sell out the next run will be available only with Japanese packaging and English instructions. The 4 new items are described below... Read more
Showmanship
October 19 | Posted by Senor Rai | Featured ColumnsHello, well here it is October and I am up to my butt in sequins and feathers, (No Kidwell, not my personal drag), doing all the wardrobe for the huge Marc Gilday Illusion show. Which will open in late November for a 100 city tour, we will do the final run through in R.I. and then he will move on... Read more
East Lansing Magician Doug Dean Passes Away
October 16 | Posted by Al The Only | Featured Columns Tags: Abbott's, Doug Dean, East Lansing, Get-Together, IBM Ring 54, magician, October 12 2010, optometristI received this information from Carl Karl. Doug Dean of East Lansing, Michigan died Tuesday, October 12, 2010. He was an optometrist by profession but loved magic. When he had an opportunity to perform it was at clubs, schools and churches. His specialty was a medicine man act. Doug bought the entire show of McDonald Birch and traveled to southern... Read more
Abbott Staff Does Monster Mash
October 13 | Posted by Chuck Kleiber | Abbott NewsThis may be my last post once the staff at Abbotts see this but here goes nothing, click on the link below (or the pic above) to check out the video. Monster Mash ... Read more
Abbott’s Book of the Month
October 12 | Posted by Greg Bordner | Abbott NewsBooks are the best value in magic! However over the last dozen years we have seen a drop off in book sales and a huge boom in DVD sales. I would like to revitalize interest in books (especially with our younger audience) by creating a “Book of the Month” from Abbotts. The first book will be the Encyclopedia of Rope... Read more
Halloween SpookTacular
October 9 | Posted by Chuck Kleiber | Abbott NewsThe State Theatre in Kalamazoo proudly presents the Second Annual “Halloween SpookTacular” Family Fun Magic & Illusion Show featuring Alan Kazam and Alan Smola. This is an all-ages, kid-friendly show and is NOT scary! On October 24th, Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p.m., Master Magicians Alan Kazam and Alan Smola will thrill and delight an audience of all ages at the beautiful... Read more
Steve Wyrick doing Franz Harary’s Illusion on ELLEN – what a rip off
October 7 | Posted by Al The Only | Featured Columns Tags: ELLEN, Franz, Franz Harary, Harary, illusion, magic, rip off, Steve Wyrick, stolen, water tank illusion—–Original Message—– From: Franz Harary To: altheonly@aol.com Sent: Wed, Oct 6, 2010 11:10 pm Subject: Get the word out please. Al So,….. I just heard that Steve Wyrick is planning to do my water tank illusion on the ELLEN show tomorrow. I’m in Shanghai and it’s pretty hard to do much from here. But I’ll try my damnedest! In the mean time, Please spread the word to any... Read more
The Halloween Effect Has Begun
October 2 | Posted by Gordon Miller | Abbott NewsEvery year around this time a change takes place at Abbotts Magic, effects which 11 months out of the year are reliable classics in magic change almost overnight into evil incarnations of themselves. Here’s an example, where once sat an innocent production and vanish box at Abbotts there now resides an insidious creation called The Tomb of Pam. In... Read more
Broomsticks and Black Cats
October 1 | Posted by Greg Bordner | Featured ColumnsThe following article is a reprint from the October 1936 Tops Magazine and deals with the strange events that occurred during the first ten years after the death of Houdini (Houdini died on Oct 31, 1926, nearly 84 years ago). We post this to help promote the beginning of National Magic Month and to also kick off the 2010 Halloween... Read more
