Setting Up Your Magic Shows: Part III The Most Important Step To Setting Up Your Magic Show

Step 3

You have created individual magic trick files for all of the effects in your performing repertoire. A customer calls you on the phone and books you to perform at their next event. When you are ready to design a show for a customer here's what to do:

• Create a folder called Customers.
• Within the Customers folder create a subfolder using the customer's name. I don't use a date with the folder because I expect to have several shows over many years in this folder. For example Barb Jones calls me up and books me to perform at her son's birthday party. I create a subfolder called Barb Jones in my Customers folder.
• Create a word processing file (called a show file) using the following naming format:

Customer-Month-Day-Year In the above example, I might create a file called Barb Jones-01-15-2005.doc. This file would contain the show I performed for Barb Jones on January 11, 2005. This record is great to have when she rebooks you for a show. You have a permanent record of all of your shows.

The show file has the following format:

I. Details of the show including time and place.

II. Opening - including any music or other setups

III. Trick 1 - Trick Name

• Items Needed to Perform Trick
• Setup Notes

IV. Trick 2 - Trick Name

• Items Needed to Perform Trick
• Setup Notes

V. Trick 3 - Trick Name

• Items Needed to Perform Trick
• Setup Notes

VI. Trick 4 - Trick Name

• Items Needed to Perform Trick
• Setup Notes

VII. Closing - including any music or other setups

I create the show file by going back to my magic trick files and cutting and pasting the first three sections into the show file. Using the order suggested in Step 2 makes this faster. All of your hard work in the prior step makes this step really quick. What you end up with is a detailed checklist cust omized for each show.

The next article shows the most important and final step in setting up your magic show.

Copyright 2005 J.L. Siefers, All rights reserved.

J.L. Siefers has been performing great magic for years. He has written extensively on many topics in magic. He has shown hundreds of people how to successfully learn to do great magic tricks.

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