380: Day Two - 2017 T.A.O.M.

SATURDAY

9:00 a.m.- 8:00 p.m. Registration open

9:00 a.m. Collectors meeting

10:00 a.m. dealers open

10:00 a.m. tech for stage contest

10:30 a.m. Lecture Brent Braun

12:00 noon Willard Lunch David Charvet

1:30 p.m. Lecture Nathan Phan

3:00 p.m. Close up Contest

4:00 p.m. Lecture Bizzaro

5:00 p.m. Managers cocktail reception

7:00 p.m. Dealers Close

8:00 p.m. evening program Stage Contest, Nathan Phan MC, Variations on a Theme

10:15 p.m.- Midnight War of the Wizards

Time Stamps for this Podcast:

00:02:46 - Doug Anderson will be our Monday morning lecturer on Sept. 4. Here he talks about lecturing, Illusion Designer, Paul Osborne, and more.

00:11:20 - Katalina Christian, the other half of Christian and Katalina, spoke a bit about their theatre in Indianapolis and their lecture on "Magic in the Real World" and how to move into the full time world of performing. Their eBook is available here: by Clicking Here.

00:20:22 - Frank Seltzer, President of the 2017 T.A.O.M. convention talks about this convention and its preparations.

00:27:02 - David Charvet delivers a speech about the Willard (the Wizard) family which was presented before the luncheon for members of the "Order of Willard" (T.A.O.M. members with 25 or more consecutive years of membership).

00:57:58 - Fumio "Eric" Inagaki tells us the origin of his invention that is universally used by magicians...the UPC Bar Code Gag.

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379: Day One - 2017 T.A.O.M.

FRIDAY

10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Registration open

12:00 noon Lecture Kylie Knight noon dealers open

2:30 p.m. Lecture The Other Brothers

4:00 p.m. Lecture David Charvet

5:00 p.m. TAOM Board meeting

5:00 p.m. managers cocktail reception

8:00 p.m. dealers close

8:00-9:45 p.m. Evening program Christian and Katalina and Gregory Wilson

10:00 p.m. Lecture Christian & Katalina

Time stamps for this podcast:

00:09:20 - Diamond Jim Tyler is a dealer at this year's convention and he gives us a preview of some of his hottest items plus a little announcement about an upcoming "Bamboozlers" project.

00:15:37 - Kylie Knight gave an afternoon lecture about the importance of make-up for magicians, not only for stage, but also for close-up and daily use. Here she recaps some of her tips from the lecture.

00:21:18 - David Charvet was another afternoon lecturer who spoke about dusting off some of the old classical magic tricks from your closet and putting them back in your act. In our chat, he recaps a bit of his lecture plus talks about his experience of performing the Blackstone Buzzsaw illusion (as Harry Blackstone, Jr.) for MAGIC Live! a few years ago.

00:27:58 - Dal Sanders talks about the new video he just made (posted in the blog of this podcast) that requests donations for the Magic Endowment Fund specifically to assist the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas.

262: Just One Thing with Bob Fitch

Bob Fitch is well known among those who know him well. Of course that is meant to be tongue-in-cheek as of course Bob is a man of many hats...and he wears them all extremely well: actor, director, magician, singer and dancer. A show business legend himself, Bob has appeared in theatrical presentations including: "Funny Things Happened On The Way To The Forum", Will Roger's Follies, Annie, Mack & Mabel, Mame, and many more. He has worked or directed many of the famous celebrities including Liza Minnelli, Steve Martin, Carol Channing, Katherine Hepburn, Jerry Lewis, Mickey Rooney, Carol Burnette, Whoopi Goldberg, just to name a very few.

But among magicians, he is known for his series of three Topit videos and his work with the Fitch Kohler Hold-Out. But perhaps he is best known as someone who helps professionals take their game up another notch. As a director and coach in private workshops, Bob finds and focuses on one thing that will help make their performances achieve greatness. It could be something as simple as eliminating the walk between a volunteer and the performer's table by merely carrying the prop on your person, thus avoiding the lapse in time it takes to make the walk. Or it could be the opposite in which the performer adds that time by walking back and forth. Often times, whatever that "one thing" is turns out to be something that leads the performer to think about other aspects of his/her performance that could use the same kind of attention.

Bob Fitch has won many awards over the years including: Best Director - Nominated - New England Theatre Awards; Best Director & Best Actor - Nominated - Carbonelle Awards (Florida); Burns-Mantle Award (Broadway) for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Annie). And the S.A.M. Parent Assembly awarded Bob with the "Magician of the Year", and in 2009, the Academy of Magical Arts presented him with the "Lifetime Achievement Award".

Bob Fitch was one of the featured lecturers and performers at this year's T.A.O.M. convention (let me say here again that I found it to be one of the top ten best conventions I have ever attended). In this podcast, Bob talks about several of the things he taught during his lecture plus some of the same stories that he related there, too. If you saw/heard/experienced that lecture, then you will enjoy hearing it again. It's like reading a book a second time and finding a passage you overlooked the first time. If you missed the lecture, then I know you will enjoy and learn at least "one thing" from our chat.

380: Day Two - 2017 T.A.O.M.

379: Day One - 2017 T.A.O.M.

262: Just One Thing with Bob Fitch

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