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Issue Number: #1522
Date: Sunday 23rd June 2019
Editor: Alan Watson QSM
www.watson.co.nz
E-mail: editor@magicnewzealand.com
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Hi here is the latest news
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1. Editor's Message
2. Penn & Teller Auditions Coming To Australia!
3. David Copperfield VS. Penn & Teller
4. Magician's Body Found After Failed River Escape Stunt
5. Freedom Of The Borough Of Newcastle-Under-Lyme
6. Pat Hazell, Part One On The Magic Word Podcast
7. Twin Thoughts - John Carey #47
8. The Magicians Podcast
9. FISM-North America
10. Post-FISM 2021 Tour Of Quebec And Ontario, Canada
11. Post FISM Tour Of Quebec And Southern Ontario August 1-7, 2021
12. Masters of Illusion, America's Largest Touring Magic Show
13. The Orchante Saga - Beginnings
14. E-zine Archives
15. Privacy Policy and Copyright Notice

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1. Editor's Message
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Josip Alajbeg (Jozo Bozo) from Croatia, lectures through New Zealand were extremely well received and we were delighted that Kiwi magicians had the opportunity to learn from a world renown children's entertainer and marketing professional.

If you would like to read the Magic New Zealand e-zine in HTML format
go to: http://www.magicnewzealand.com/ezine-archive/2019-Jan-to-Dec-2019/1522-Jun23-2019.html

If you would like to write a regular column for Magic New Zealand or
have some magic news drop me a line:
Editor@MagicNewZealand.com

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2. Penn & Teller Auditions Coming To Australia!
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Message by Helen Coghlan (Australia)

17th - 20th October, 2019 - Voco Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia

We're excited to announce our special Guest Lecturers and Performers who will be coming to GC Magic 2019 this October. This is definitely a Magic Convention you don't want to miss!!

Just an update with our convention in October. Our registrations are now open.

The early bird registration fee is only AU$359 which includes a Gala Show and Buffet Dinner, valued at over $100.

We have an exciting line-up of international guest lecturers and performers, including US magician Richard Turner. Richard's unparalleled skill with a deck of cards has stirred and staggered audiences throughout the world. The amazing thing about this master Card Manipulator is that he is totally blind.

Click here https://gcmagic2019.com.au/ for a full list of lecturers and performers.

This fee also includes the opportunity to audition for Penn & Teller: Fool Us but we're encouraging magicians to confirm their registration asap as audition places will be limited.

Our website https://gcmagic2019.com.au/ has more information on what's included and how to register. There is also information if anyone would like to register as a dealer.

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3. David Copperfield VS. Penn & Teller
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Penn and Teller: Fool Us - David Copperfield vs. Penn & Teller (June 17, 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_b3NUqg1HI&feature=youtu.be

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4. Magician's Body Found After Failed River Escape Stunt
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Article forwarded on by Rob Thomas

CNN

Indian police have recovered the body of a stuntman who went missing in the Hooghly River Sunday while attempting a daredevil trick, authorities confirmed.

Chanchal Lahiri, 40 -- better known by his stage name "Jadugar Mandrake", or "Wizard Mandrake" -- was undertaking an escape stunt near the Howrah Bridge in Kolkata, where he was tied up with steel chains and rope and lowered into the water.

He was expected to free himself and swim to the surface as he had done many times before. Yet worried spectators, which included team members and his family, launched a frantic search along the banks of the river after he failed to emerge 30 minutes later.

Before being lowered into the water, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that Lahiri told the crowd: "If I can open it up then it will be magic, but if I can't it will be tragic."

Balance of article go to:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/18/india/india-magician-drowned-body-found-intl-scli/index.html

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5. Freedom Of The Borough Of Newcastle-Under-Lyme
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Message by Andrew Van Buren (UK)

Retired Veteran illusion inventors & performers Fred Van Buren & Greta have been granted the "Freedom of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme" (their hometown in the UK) by the Borough Council & Mayor.

It is for their lifetime in showbusiness and services to the magic profession. The ceremony was attended by civic dignitaries, councilors, past Mayors plus guests representing the worlds of magic, circus and fairground.

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6. Pat Hazell, Part One On The Magic Word Podcast
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Message by Scott Wells, M.I.M.C. with Gold Star

This week on the Magic Word Podcast we offer the first of a two-part conversation with Pat Hazell, one of the stand-out performers at last year's MAGIC Live! convention in Las Vegas. We take a deep dive and get a closer look at this comedy genius who has appeared on "The Tonight Show" multiple times including with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. He has also appeared in many movies and television. But he may be best known as one of the writers for "Seinfeld", the popular American television series.

Listen to this week's Part One of our conversation by visiting the blog at https://www.themagicwordpodcast.com/scottwellsmagic/497-pat-hazell-part-one where you can also view some videos of Pat plus see some photos and download the MP3 file. Of course, you can also listen to the podcast through any place where you get your podcasts.

Congratulations to the winner of last week's contest for a free set of Scott Alexander's lecture notes. See our weekly pod-letter for details. What? You aren't a subscriber? What's stopping you? It's free and informative. Visit the blog to subscribe today and find out about contests and more.

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7. Twin Thoughts - John Carey #47
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Message by John Carey (UK)
https://carey-scene.com/jc-main

The following two-deck piece is designed for more formal performance. With very little work, an uncanny coincidence and implied transposition is created. My inspiration was a double brainwave effect of Allan Ackerman's in his book Las Vegas Kardma.

You will require a red deck and a blue deck. Take out the Jack of Hearts from the blue deck and place it on the bottom of the red deck. Reverse these actions and take out the matching Jack of Hearts from the red deck and place it on the bottom of the blue deck. Box both decks and you are good to go.

Bring both decks out and remove them from their boxes. Pick up the red deck and spread it, without exposing the stranger card. Swing cut about half the deck into the left hand and as you complete the cut, secretly side jog the face card of the right hands cards by pushing it about an inch and a half to the right with the pads of the left fingers. Ribbon spread the red deck from left to right and nearest you. The blue stranger card will be nicely hidden because of this hideout move of Charles Nyquist, published many years ago in Hugard's Magical Monthly Magazine.
Comment on how earlier in the day you were spreading through that deck and one card just seemed to pop out at you and you just can't get it out of your head.

Pick up the blue deck and spread, again being sure not to expose the red stranger card on the face. Casually swing cut a few packets into the left hand and as both hands come together get a left little-finger break beneath the stranger Jack of Hearts. Mention you would like a spectator to put the thought of a card in their mind. Dribble force to your break and raise the face of the right hands cards towards them. Lower this hand and bring both hands together and secretly side jog the force card, just like earlier in the piece. Ribbon spread this blue deck nearest to your helper. The Nyquist hideout once again comes to our aid and everything looks copacetic. Slowly square up both decks and invite your helper to cover her deck with her right hand. You mirror her actions with your deck.

"So Raj. You're thinking of a card and so am I. A card is made up of a colour, a suit and a value. Form a mental image of that card for me please as I do the same. My card is a red card. Yours is too? My card is a Heart. And yours? Very interesting. On the count of three lets both call out our thoughts. One, two, three. Jack of Hearts!!! Now that's spooky. So, my thoughts are yours and your thoughts are mine. Please pick up your deck and spread it across the table as I spread mine. Look there's a card in each spread standing out like a stranger in the crowd. Please take them both out and turn them over. Now that's what you call synchronicity!"

As per the presentation above, you do the step-by-step colour, suit and value coincidence and then both decks are spread and a stranger card is revealed face-down in each deck. Both are taken out and turned over and the mystery is concluded.

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8. The Magicians Podcast
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The Magicians' Podcast Richard Young

The second in our trio of interviews is with David Copperfield's Executive Producer Chris Kenner. In this interview Chris discusses his thoughts on creativity in magic and the overuse of that particular word. He also talks about his generosity towards young magicians and why he doesn't give them advice. Chris also shares the story of his first meeting with David Copperfield and how he made his way up the ranks to his current position. He talks about why the Tornado of Fire TV special was David's last and also shares an anecdote about a disagreement with the boss in a high-pressure environment.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-magicians-podcast/id932102286

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9. FISM-North America
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Message by Joan Caesar (Canada)

Register at www.fismna2020.com for FISM North America before September 30 to get the best rate of $275USD, if you're a FISM member. If you're interested in competing at FISM in 2021, FISM North America is the only way to gain a spot.

This is once again a Combined Convention with the Festival de Magie de Quebec and the Canadian Association of Magicians. Competing members of these groups will qualify for additional awards.

25 contestants in each of stage and close up will be selected to compete. When your act is ready, submit the video of your act when you register online or as soon as it is ready and no later than February 16, 2020 at 10:00 pm EST. Five preliminary judges will view your act and decide the qualifying contestants.

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10. Post-FISM 2021 Tour Of Quebec And Ontario, Canada
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Message from Joan Caesar (Canada)

A tour is taking place immediately after FISM 2021. During the 7-day trip you will see Montreal, Ottawa (Canada's capital) and Toronto. As well, we'll visit wineries, a bison farm, a Mennonite farm and cruise the St. Lawrence River. To top it off we'll see Niagara Falls, then tour the back stage of Greg Frewin's theatre and have a meal while watching his show.

Details of the trip go to item 11 of the e-zine

If interested, please contact Joan: JCaesar@sentex.ca

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11. Post FISM Tour Of Quebec And Southern Ontario August 1-7, 2021
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Message by Joan Caesar (Canada)

If interested contact Joan Caesar JCaesar@sentex.ca for further details.

Sunday, August 1 Quebec City to Montreal (L, D)
Tour Quebec City before traveling to Montreal via famous Quebec Waterfalls, Chute Montmorency.

Lunch at Bison farm after wagon tour amongst the Bison. Continue to Montreal for city tour

Monday, August 2: Montreal to Ottawa (B, D)
Travel to Ottawa and the Byward Market, home to over 600 curious businesses, Afternoon city tour.

Tuesday, August 3: Ottawa, Gananoque, Kingston (B, D)
Visit the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa
Travel to Kingston and visit historic Fort Henry. Lunch in Fort cafeteria
Tour Kingston maximum security Penitentiary.
Evening thousand Islands dinner cruise.

Wednesday, August 4: Kingston, Kitchener/Waterloo (B,D)
Travel to Waterloo via Huff Estate winery,
Continue to St. Jacobs for Mennonite tour. Visit the Mennonite info centre.
Visit famous village of Elora.

Thursday, August 5: Waterloo, Niagara Falls (B. D)
Visit a Mennonite Farm via horse and wagon. This farm has a sugar bush
harvested the old-fashioned way. Lunch at the Farmers' Market
Travel to Niagara Falls, visiting the English style town, Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Visit Chateau des Charmes winery. This region produces Ice Wine and some of the world's best wine.
Continue along the Niagara River and the Niagara Gorge. Dinner at the
Elements Restaurant located within 30 metres of the Falls. Free time to see the illumination of the Falls and Fireworks over the Falls.

Friday, August 6: Niagara Falls (B, D)
Free time in Niagara Falls. Tour Greg Frewin's theatre facilities, then dinner and a performance.

Saturday, August 7: Niagara Falls, Toronto (B, L)
Travel to Toronto for a morning city tour.
Free time to visit Eaton's Centre (shopping) the Royal Ontario Museum or the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Visit CN Tower and museum of Illusions after lunch.

Sunday, August 8 - Shuttle in the morning (B)

Price in USD
Double Occupancy (2 people sharing a room) $1,795 each
Single Occupancy (1 person/room) $2,495.
(B - breakfast, L - lunch, D - dinner)

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12. Masters of Illusion, America's Largest Touring Magic Show
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Message by Steve Moyer (US)

Masters of Illusion, the hit CW television series and America's largest touring magic show will be in residency with a live show at The South Shore Room at Harrah's Lake Tahoe June 27 - September 2, 2019

See and meet in person stars from the television show at Masters of Illusion Live!

Starring Dan Sperry, Farrell Dillon, Michael Turco & Tommy Wind

Stateline, NV - (June 18, 2019) Masters of Illusion, the hit CW television series and America's largest touring magic show will be in residency from June 27 - September 2, 2019 with Masters of Illusion Live! in the South Shore Room at Harrah's Lake Tahoe, 15 US-50, Stateline, NV 89449. See and meet in person stars from the television show, including award-winning master magicians: Dan Sperry, Farrell Dillon, Michael Turco and Tommy Wind.

Performances will be running for 12 weeks on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, June 27 - September 2, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. in the South Shore Room at Harrah's Lake Tahoe. On Thursday, July 4, 2019 the performance will be given at 2:00 p.m. There are no performances on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. It's fun for the whole family! Tickets range from $24 - $45 each, plus applicable taxes and fees, and can be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 1-775-586-6244, or online at www.mastersofillusionlive.com. There will be a Meet & Greet with the magicians in the lobby of the theatre following all performances. Get a Sneak Peak of what to expect by visiting: https://vimeo.com/user4830612/review/340776800/a5ac8637fe

More About Masters of Illusion:
Starring the world's greatest award-winning magicians, this 21st century magic show is unlike anything audiences will have seen before. This Limited Engagement of Masters of Illusion Live! is a production featuring modern illusions and unbelievable arts of deception. The audience will have to watch closely as they experience tricks that can't possibly be done…or can they? Audiences will laugh out loud at the hysterical comedy magic and will be on the edge of their seats watching jaw-dropping grand illusions. The performers combine fantasy, fervor and flair within their illusions that leave the audience amazed as the magic happens right in front of their eyes. Masters of Illusion has been performed live in front of tens of thousands of people worldwide over the past eight years and has been seen by over 100 million viewers on The CW Network and in 125 other countries around the world. Experience it live for yourself at Harrah's Lake Tahoe!

About The Magicians:
Dan Sperry - Anti-Conjuror, Dan Sperry has been described as David Copperfield meets Marilyn Manson and is the only illusionist to ever be awarded the title of most original magician on FOX's "World Magic Awards." His show combines illusion and the bizarre with satirical macabre humor. It is non-stop mayhem set to an industrial musical score with razor blades, buzz saws, voodoo, blood and more. Sperry has toured with Masters of Illusion and is featured in the 6th season of the hit television series Masters of Illusion currently airing on The CW Network.

Farrell Dillon is known for his regular appearances on five seasons of The CW Network's Masters of Illusion. He has been nominated for Stage Magician of the Year by The Magic Castle in Hollywood. When not headlining in Las Vegas, Dillon can be seen on tour in some of the United States' largest performing arts venues. He has been seen on television on The Today Show, ABC, NBC, FOX, The CW, ESPN, The Food Network, MTV, BBC, My Network TV and POP TV, to name a few. Dillon combines hilarious comedy and mind-melting magic in a modern style.

Michael Turco fell in love with the mystery of magic when he was just five years old. Spending his summers just miles from the strip in Atlantic City, Turco saw every magic show in the area and was intent to master each trick and illusion on his own. Turco has had his own show in Las Vegas at Planet Hollywood casino and brought a little bit of Jersey to the strip. The press describes Turco as "a natural born talent…a true success story." Turco has been with the Masters of Illusion Live! tour for five years now and has been featured on the hit CW television series Masters of Illusion numerous times, most recently on the 6th season currently airing.

Tommy Wind is a magician from Staten Island in New York City. He has performed in many of his own original shows, combining illusion with Rock and Roll music, in New York City, Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Wind began his career when he was only seven years old after his grandfather introduced him to magic by showing him the disappearing hanky trick. He is now the youngest magician to perform in Las Vegas to date. Wind is a hip, young illusionist who combines his amazing magic and musical talents into a fun, unique show for all ages. Wind is an award recipient of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and was a winner of "Magician of the Year" award on the network television special "World Magic Awards." He was recently featured in the Bally's Las Vegas hit show Masters of Illusion Live! Wind has appeared multiple times on The CW Network's hit television show, Masters of Illusion, including the current sixth season now airing.

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13. The Orchante Saga - Beginnings
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The Orchante Saga - Beginnings

Written by the late Tommy Orchard (The Amazing Orchante)

Major Marshall and Bus, Wairoa College, The Great Benyon and Hypnotism

Major Marshall, one of nature's gentlemen and his wonderful wife, Mary, lived in little cottage up the Putere Lakes road. Surrounded by tall trees and bush - a lovely spot, but boy, was it spooky at night, especially after Mary had spun one of her Maori ghost yarns. Outside, the wind rustling in the trees, the 'mo-pork' cries of an owl, and the strangling screams of possums - all contributing to massive goose bumps, and hairs bristling on the back of your neck. Major owned and operated the only bus service - Raupunga - Wairoa return, 5 days a week.

He knew every twist, turn, boulder and pot-hole on 'the road from hell'. I still applaud his fortitude, enduring for years that tortuous return expedition. It was on this bus, travelling on that awful road where every pot-hole bounced the bus and all aboard, to Kingdom Come and back, that I practised 'the Coin Roll', deliberately sitting on the back seat; and spent a lot of time hanging on for dear life, scrabbling around the length and breadth of the bus, underneath seats, looking for my precious penny.

Why on the back seat? Because there, you really bounce! A Tommy philosophy - practise and perfect under difficult circumstances - everything else then becomes easy. If you're just starting out on the 'sleight of hand' road, learn to palm a coin that has no milled edges. Got a pack of cards? - chuck in sink; add water, soil and some booze, let soak, then throw outside and let dry in the sun; NOW learn your stuff! You will meet jokers who will throw such packs at you, sneering
'Okay, smart arse - put your fancy marked cards away' (even if they're not) 'and use these'!!

Sorry, skidded off the runway a bit - I'll get back on the flight line! I left Raupunga school to attend Wairoa College. Major would pick me up in his bus, from the Police Station at Raupunga. The last 5 feet at the back of the bus was partitioned off, only accessible from the outside,
to accommodate all the milk-cans that Major would pick up from the farms, (I'd help Major load the milk cans on board, and a full milk can isn't exactly light, but it sure did wonders for my physique) and deliver them to the Wairoa Dairy milk processing plant. Consequently, when Major picked me up at around 7 a.m. I wouldn't get to College until around 10 a.m. A three-hour trip. I'd leave again at 3 p.m. sharp, and would get home around 6 - 7 p.m. A long day, with not much schooling, (okay by me, but not the college, or Mum and Dad).

The decision was made; I boarded in Wairoa, and came home for the weekends. Didn't like it much - two things made it bearable, and one major incident which got my name in print - (for the first time - certainly not the last). The first, was meeting (I have no memory of how) a chap named Willie Crarer - an amateur magician. I vaguely remember that he lived in a large home down a long drive-way.. I think he either owned or managed a large store in Wairoa - Dalgety's rings a bell - don't really know. Ken Boreham - who was at Wairoa College at the same time
as I was, would know.

Ken was 'into' Magic as well. (Met Ken again years later in 1972 when I was doing a show in a Wairoa Hotel). There was a Magic club, but I don't remember attending. I have a book - 'Magical Ways and Means' by Al Baker which Willie Crarer signed and gave to me. It's stamped 'Wairoa Magician's Society' - quite an advanced book for an 11 - 12-year-old. Perhaps he had some precognition as to what road I was on; wherever you are, Willie, thank you - you were right! I still perform 'The Magical Filtration of Four Half Dollars' from that book - it's perfect.

The second thing was - The Great Benyon hits town. To any young Magic mad kid to see The Great Benyon was, well, Magic, with a capital 'M'. It's all so long ago, like a dream - the quick changes - I can still hear him saying 'Same man, different clothes' (did notice that he lost a lot of
weight as the show progressed). The Linking rings, Substitution trunk, and, the one that really sticks in my mind, was 'The Ghost House'.

Then there was the pseudo-Hypnotism segment - 'pseudo' because I found out much later that it was a sham, but I was sold, big time. I just had to find out how to develop this 'power'. The name 'Franquin' is also floating about - rumours that he can make anyone do anything just by looking at them; The local bookshop had two books - 'Hypnotism and Self Hypnosis' by Ralph Slater, an English Hypnotist, (circa 1952) and 'Open Your Mind - a Course on Hypnotism', by Franquin, 1954. These two books became my 'bibles'.

So began my 'journey' studying the intricacies of the human mind, hypnotism, psychology, self hypnosis, yoga; and practising the hypnotism lessons at College.

More of this next week, - the 'MAJOR INCIDENT'.- BIG trouble!

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14. E-zine Archives
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Back issues of the Magic New Zealand e- zine go to:
www.magicnewzealand.com click on the red button centre right "Archives"

When you enter the archive the e- zines are in issue order in folders for each year and are Coded, e.g. 001 Nov06 1999.txt first three numbers (001) denote issue number, then the date (Nov06) and the last figures the year (1999)

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