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Issue Number: #1549
Date: Sunday 22nd December 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. Applications Now Open - Melbourne Magic Festival 2020
3. Teller Sidelined Again, So It's 'Penn & Friends' In Las Vegas
4. Michael Godard, Artist On The Magic Word Podcast
5. FISM North American Championship Of Magic
6. Do Do Do As I Do - John Carey #65
7. AMA Performing Schedule 23 December - 26 January 2020
8. KIDabra: The Conference Of KIDshow And Family Performers
9. The Orchante Saga - Beginnings
10. E-zine Archives
11. Privacy Policy and Copyright Notice

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1. Editor's Message
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: Magic New Zealand ezine is taking a break over the Christmas and New Year period and will next be published on Friday 10th January 2020 New Zealand time.

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-2019/1549-Dec22-2019.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. Applications Now Open - Melbourne Magic Festival 2020
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Message by Tim Ellis (Aust)

Would you like to produce a show at the 2020 Melbourne Magic Festival?

It's the 13th year of our annual celebration of imagination and we have moved into an even bigger venue - The Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre.

If you'd like to bring your show to Melbourne it takes just two easy steps:

1 - Download and read our Producer Guide https://melbournemagicfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MMF-PRODUCER-GUIDE-2020.pdf

2 - Submit your application online https://forms.gle/cN8jFoukqoGA5jBo6 before the end of January and we will be in touch!

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3. Teller Sidelined Again, So It's 'Penn & Friends' In Las Vegas
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Article forwarded on by Mel Kientz (US)

By John Katsilometes Las Vegas Review-Journal

Teller is famously silent onstage, but his back keeps talking to him.

The nonverbal partner in "Penn & Teller" at the Rio has once more been sidelined by back surgery. On Thursday, the 71-year-old magician underwent his third spinal-fusion procedure in 18 months, this one at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Teller is expected to return around Super Bowl Sunday in the first week of February. In his absence, Penn Jillette is heading up a "Penn & Friends" lineup of guest stars Mac King of Harrah's, Flamingo Las Vegas headliner Piff the Magic Dragon and comedy writer-magician-podcast trailblazer Matt Donnelly.

Those shows at Penn & Teller Theater begin Dec. 21-22, with Jillette performing with King and Donnelly. Piff joins the show from Dec. 23-Jan. 4.

Teller is said to be resting well at Cedars-Sinai, beginning a six-to-eight week recovery process. He is expected to return to the stage and also resume taping of The CE show "Fool Us" in February.

Teller previously underwent surgery on his back in October, canceling about two weeks' worth of shows. Teller was also taken out of action for spinal-fusion surgery in July 2018, taking the show down for a month.

This month, P&T production at the Rio has been dark since Dec. 1, with Jillette attending the opening of the comedy production "Magic Goes Wrong" at London's Vaudeville Theatre on Saturday night. That show has set advance-ticket sales records for the regal venue, which opened in 1870.

Also off the books is Penn & Teller's tour of Australia in January, including two weeks of sold-out shows at the Sydney Opera House. The duo, stage partners since 1975, are to mark their 19th anniversary at the Rio on Jan. 5.

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4. Michael Godard, Artist On The Magic Word Podcast
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Message by Scott Wells, M.I.M.C. with Gold Star

Happy Christmas, everyone. This week we have a gift for you that is not magical in the traditional way. This week we feature a conversation with Michael Godard, the world's number one best selling artist. Perhaps you might know him as "the olive guy" who paints the whimsical olives dancing in and around martini glasses.

Well, I visited him in his home in Las Vegas and we discussed creativity and the similarities of illustrative art and performing art. Although he is not a magician, he is a magician with a paint brush. And his story of "rags to riches" is inspiring, too, as he encourages everyone to follow their dreams. I know you will enjoy this inspirational episode as we slide into Christmas.

You can view a video I filmed inside his home, see some candid photos, read the blog, listen online to the podcast and download the MP3 at: https://www.themagicwordpodcast.com/scottwellsmagic/535-godard And be sure to subscribe to our weekly pod-letter to keep up to date with who is on from week to week plus suggestions from the Archives on podcasts that deserve another listen.

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5. FISM North American Championship Of Magic
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Message by Joan Caesar (Canada)

The FISM North American Championship of Magic along with The Canadian Association of Magicians convention will be held May 6-10, 2020 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
A registration to this historic convention would make a great Christmas present for the magician in your family. And your family might want to join you.

Quebec City is the only walled city in North America and has a tremendous amount of history. It is as close to the feeling of Europe as you'll find in North America. There are also wonderful shops and restaurants to explore along their cobblestone streets.

Judges will choose the contestants (a maximum of 15) who will move up to compete at FISM 2021 as well as the Canadian Champion. All contestants for a FISM placement must be citizens of North America. All videos must be sent by Feb 15 in order to compete. To be eligible to compete for the Canadian prizes in stage and close up, you must be a member of the Canadian Association of Magicians.

For more information and to register, go to www.FISMNA2020.com
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6. Do Do Do As I Do - John Carey #65
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Message by John Carey (UK)
http://www.johncareymagic.co.uk/

I will admit that I absolutely love the classic Do As I Do plot. It's such a strong and engaging premise and effect that also makes your spectator the star in the bargain. The piece I will discuss here is self working in method, but the impact is very satisfying. You will require a red deck and a blue deck. The top two cards of the red deck are the Ace of Clubs, followed by the Four of Hearts. The bottom card of this deck is the Seven of Spades. Set these same three cards in that exact same order in the blue deck and case both decks ready for action.

Bring both boxes out and table them as you introduce the effect by discussing coincidence, synchronicity and fate. Offer a spectator the free choice of either deck. Let's say they choose red. Both of you remove your decks and hold them face down. The boxes are discarded. "Let's work
together as a team Mick and see if any mysterious forces(!) are at work tonight.

First off let's each give the cards a true triple cut to randomize everything. Walk and talk your helper through the classic Jay Ose tabled false cut and then each of you stack the three packets up and square up. "Let's each put the card we cut to in our pockets sight unseen." Take off the top card of your deck and pocket it. Have your spectator do the same. Credit to Ben Earl for this self force which I first saw on his website some years ago.

"Let's continue and each cut off a small packet together." Cut off a small packet with your right hand and transfer it to left-hand dealing grip. Ask the spectator to once again mirror your actions and cut off a small packet. "I will count mine to the table." Deal and count your packet one card at a time into a face down packet. Then have the spectator do the same with their packet. If you both have the same, make the most of it! Of course this is the old count force and sets the Four of Hearts to the bottom of each packet ready for later disclosure.

"Finally Mick, would you cut off a fair size packet and then place the other cards on top like this?" By way of demonstration, reach over your deck and cut off about half and table them. Then pick up the remainder and place it on top, offset at an angle for the classic cross-cut force of Max Holden. Your helper copies your actions one last time with their cards. The ingredients are complete and it's just a case of revealing the matches. Shift the focus a few seconds as you compliment the spectator on working so well with you. Then lift off the upper angled section from your packet with the right hand,held from above. Your spectator copies you with their
cards. Both of you then turn your packets face-up to reveal a perfect match of two Sevens of Spades. "Maybe that's simply a coincidence."

Each of you set your packets down face-up to the table and then you draw attention to the two smaller packets each of you freely cut earlier. Both packets are turned over to reveal an uncanny match of Four of Hearts. "That's beyond mere coincidence." To complete the mystery, ask your helper to take out the card they put in their pocket at the start. You take out yours too and both are turned face-up to reveal each of you cut to the Ace of Clubs. "Now that's synchronicity!"

Notes:
The Jay Ose False Cut was first published in Harry Lorayne's Close Up Card Magic. A fun idea is to do this with one real deck and one imaginary deck...

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7. AMA Performing Schedule 23 December - 26 January 2020
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December 23 - 29 2019
Close-up Gallery
Cocktail hour performer
David Ramey
Early performer
Tyler Rabbit
Late performer
Zach Waldman

Parlour of Prestidigitation
Early performer
Arthur Benjamin
Late performer
Ben Nemzer

Palace of Mystery
Cassandra
James Dimmare
Mark Haslam

Library Bar
Lauro Castillo
Monday - Sunday

Peller Theatre
Simone Turkington
Taylor Hughes
Monda - Sunday

Friday Lunch
Tyler Rabbit

Sat & Sun Brunch Parlour Kids' shows
Tricky Tim

Magician Lecture
Adam Christing
Sunday

December 30 - January 5

Close-up Gallery
Cocktail hour performer
Tori Noquez
Early performer
David Goldrake
Late performer
John Guastaferro

Parlour of Prestidigitation
Early performer
David Regal
Late performer
Lady Sarah and Keith Fields

Palace of Mystery
Niek Takens
Bursky & Ballantine
Dan Birch & Cindy

Library bar
Rich Cowley
Monday - Sunday

Peller Theatre
Kevin Li
Joseph Tran
Monday - Sunday

Friday Lunch
David Goldrake

Sat & Sun Brunch Parlour Kids' shows
Lady Sarah & Keith Fields

Magician lecture
David Goldrake
Sunday

January 13 - 19 2020
Close-up gallery
Cocktail hour performer
Hansel Kreutzberger
Early performer
Richard Turner
Late performer
Michael Rangel

The Parlour of Prestidigitation
Early performer
Doug Gorman & Fran
Late performer
Reynold Alexander

Palace of Mystery
Zabrecky
The Conjurors

Library Bar
Mark Collier
Thursday - Sunday

Peller Theatre
Lucas Allen
Adam Wylie
Wednesday - Sunday

Friday lunch
Richard Turner

Sat & Sun brunch Parlour Kids' shows
Wacko

Magician lecture
Reynold Alexander/Hansel Kreutzberger
Sunday

January 20 -26th 2020

Cocktail Hour Gallery
Masahiro Yanagida
Early Performer
David Minkin
Late Performer
John Michael Hinton

The Parlour of Prestidigitation
Early Performer
Brendan Dooley
Late Performer
Bryan Saint

Palace of Mystery
Arthur Trace
Kerry Pollock & Kelly
Marco Zoppi & Rolanda

Library Bar
Hannibal
Thursday - Sunday

Peller Theatre
Henry Evans
Tony Montana
Wednesday - Sunday

Friday lunch
John Michael Hinton

Sat & Sun Brunch Parlour Kids' shows
Brendan Dooley

Magician lecture
No Sunday lecture!


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8. KIDabra: The Conference Of KIDshow And Family Performers
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Message by Mark Daniel

August 19-22, 2020, Atlanta
The Sonesta Hotel and Conference Center Gwinnett Place

After a fantastic first visit to Atlanta for KIDabra Conference we return again next August and we're Celebrating with BLACK FRIDAY SPECIALS

Register for KIDabra and Book your Hotel Room at The Sonesta between Now and December 2nd, Cyber Monday, and you're entered for a chance to win one of these fantastic prizes:
First Prize - Courtesy of Chris and Cesar a Showtime Magic Gift
Certificate = $500
Second Prize - One Complementary Registration for ShowSkills Wednesday = $95 value.
Third Prize - Priority Seating during KIDabra Conference = Priceless!

The Fine Print:
Complete A Paid 2020 Primary Registration for KIDabra Conference and make your hotel reservation at the Sonesta between now and 5 PM EST on Monday, December 2nd. Send Tami an email once your hotel reservation is made at TamiDaniel@kidabra.org Prizes will be presented at KIDabra Conference 2020. You must be present to redeem. Non-transferable.

If there was ever a KIDshow Super Group it would have to be these three guys who made a record setting 147 lecture stops from 1995 -2002, plus mix in thousands of shows between them too!

Fast forward 25 Years and 15 years since the 3 have appeared together and how incredible would it be to catch up with them. The three have contributed so much to our industry, and continue to!

Come spend an amazing evening at KIDabra Conference with the gurus of Komedy KIDshow Klinic together on stage for their 25 Year reunion with David Ginn making his only Conference appearance of 2020, the Editor of the Linking Ring Magazine Sammy Smith, and theatre impresario Steve Taylor, in part interview, and part performance hosted by Christopher T. Magician. Only at KIDabra Atlanta 2020!

Plus, Making his first ever lecture and conference appearance - Jef Eaton who is Kandu Magic, and from England the fabulous KIMMO, John Kimmons. From Italy, lecturing for the first time at KIDabra, Gaia Germani, from New Zealand the fantastic Greg Britt, the creative Barry Mitchell, Atlanta's own KIDshow Superstar Ken Scott, the hilarious and thoughtful Lee Andrews, and The Live KIDshow with Chef Bananas, Chad Jacobs, along with your Hosts Mark and Tami Daniel. Plus, many more, including the Terrific KIDabra Foundational Team.

At KIDabra, there's seminars for you on Show Development, Hands on Workshops, Lectures, New Routines, Theming, The Business, Marketing and Branding, a Live KIDshow, Late Night Jams, The Saturday Night Gala, the informative KIDabra KID Talks, and the most Powerhouse Vendors room in years with tremendous resources for performing pros!

Atlanta, Georgia is served by one of the World's Best Airports and the area is easily drivable too.

The Sonesta Gwinnett Place has fabulous conference space, free parking, no resort fees, in-house restaurants and bar, a complimentary shuttle to surrounding restaurants and shopping, plus a great Special Lower 2020 Conference Room Rate, just tell them you're coming for KIDabra!

Hotel/Travelhttps://www.kidabra.org/hotel-travel-2020

Please mark your calendars and make plans to be with us. We can't wait to see you in Atlanta where the KIDshow World will gather to Learn, Network and Share!

Join us for KIDabra Atlanta, August 19-22 2020 https://www.kidabra.org/register-kidabra-atl

kidabra.org

Follow us on Facebook at KIDabra International Members and Friends

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9. The Orchante Saga - Beginnings
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Written by the late Tommy Orchard (The Amazing Orchante)

Memories Continued - Friends, Past and Present

Peter Taylor worked with Newbs (Peter Newberry) for 2/3 years. He and Sally Phillips got engaged, and all was well. Then Peter decided to go solo once again, with his own act, 'Delmere', and left the Demonos/Movados. Peter Newberry took on a girl, (Gaye) who worked with him for about 3 months.

Peter Taylor decided that Australia was the place to be - but Sally didn't want to go. Peter practically begged me to go with him, but, as with Sally, I didn't want to leave New Zealand. I loved travelling, but NZ was my birthplace, and very much my home. I can still recall, vividly, going with Peter to his bank, where he withdrew a large bundle of cash, still pleading with me to go to 'Aussie' with him. He even offered to pay my airfare. I stayed. I must have been bloody mad! (It wasn't until Veronica and I emigrated to Australia in 1976, that I realised that I should have gone with Peter, 10 years earlier.) Sally broke off the engagement, and Peter left New Zealand's shores, forever.

Peter was right! Sydney, Australia was in the early sixties, regarded by entertainers as being second only to Las Vegas. It was a Mecca for hundreds of artists, from acrobats to xylophonists, (and dozens of '£10 Pommie' comics), who could work their art(s), and make a very good living as full time professional entertainers.

It was said you could 'play' a different club every night of the week (if you wanted to), for 10 years, without going to the same one twice. May be a slight exaggeration, but not far off it. Making small fortunes were the hundreds of 'Mr 10%' theatrical agents. Each one would handle a
group of clubs, supplying all the entertainment with the acts on his books. Each agent would swap his acts with those of other agents, which meant that you always worked. If you were a good act, with a great agent (should that not be the other way round?) you, as an artist, were
practically set for life.

For those who don't know what a '£10 Pommie' is - back in the '50s, Australia was encouraging professional and skilled people to emigrate to Australia, and were offering the British passage by ship, to Australia for only £10. 'Pommie' is slang 'down under' for an English person.

There were so many different clubs - most lavishly decored, many, with full-size gymnasiums, restaurants, full size swimming pools, auditoriums with full stage, sound, lighting, and dressing room facilities - all from the proceeds of hundreds of wall to wall, aisle after aisle, Poker machines - which also paid for the entertainment - bands, dancers, singers, sight-acts, and big international 'names'. Some clubs even had special parking facilities - 'for Artists only' - oh, the luxury. The 'Pokies' were/are gold mines - they paid - or rather, the punters did - for everything.

Back to New Zealand - One night, Gaye (Peter Newberry's new assistant) couldn't work, so Sally stepped in, to help out. They did three shows that night, and 10 years later, Sally was still working with Newbs. When Sally finally left the act, Marie (Peter Newberry's daughter) took over. During all this time, the act was known as 'Peter and Gaye'. For a brief time, Kim Hegan (the son of Elaine and the late Eddie Hegan, well known Auckland Theatrical agents, at the time) also worked with Newbs.

In Australia, Peter (Taylor) met and married Rosa. They worked together as 'Delmere and Rosa' for years, spending 6 months doing the Sydney clubs, and the other six, touring Europe- sending all their money back to Australia, building up a nice nest-egg.

When Veronica and I finally got to 'Aussie', we met up with Peter and Rosa - they had bought a house at Menai - a suburb south of Sydney, and were doing very well. They then moved up to Southport on the Gold Coast, and bought a lovely home there. Veronica and I visited them a couple of times when we were in Queensland doing shows - and then just lost touch, sometime in the 80's - as you do. That was the last time I saw Peter.

He was a very strong, fit man, who never smoked, and I was shocked to learn from Sally last year, that Peter had died of Cancer, on the 5th August 1997. Isn't it strange how, even though you haven't seen or heard from a good friend for a lot of years, there is still a 'hollow' in your life when you get the news that they have left this world!

What I remember most about Peter is, when asked 'how's it going?' he would cock his head cheekily, just so, and with a huge grin, a 'million' white teeth flashing, say, 'it's better than working for a living!' I miss you, old mate!

I am greatly indebted to Sally for most of the foregoing (nothing like getting it straight from the horse's mouth, as it were). Thank you, my very dear friend. I'm sure that I'll be delving into your encyclopaedic memory again - and again - and again ...........

I need cheering up - how about you? Here are two impossible scenarios. Two Magicians meet up - one says to the other "Let me show you the latest, mind-boggling, utterly fantastic, blow your audience away, magical stunner". "NO!!!"

Or; having shown a mind-boggling etc. stunner, the other magi says "Wow! I hope you NEVER tell me how that was done!" ---------Bollocks!!

I've just received a nice e-mail from Jon Zealando. Among other things, Jon states, Quote; 'Keep it up, Tom, it (the Saga) brings back some great memories of people also precious to me...' Unquote. Thank you Jon - I'm pleased that I'm stirring up memories for many of us New Zealand
show-biz old timers - and letting the younger generation in New Zealand - and the rest of the world, know of how it was for us, then, 'down under' in Kiwi-land.

Coming up - Al Horobin & Fiji.

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10. 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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