631: 2021 Magic Collector Expo - Day Three

Saturday August 21, 2021

10:00am – 11:00am Dealer Room Open

11:00am – 12:30pm Expo Session #3 hosted by David Sandy with Richard Hughes, Gabe Fajuri and Les Arnold

12:30pm – 2:30pm Dealer Room Open

2:30pm – 4:00pm Expo Session #4 hosted by Lance Rich with Bill Schwartz, Retonio and Lance Rich

6:30pm – 7:00pm Cocktail Half Hour

7:00pm – 9:30pm Fabulous Las Vegas: Dinner & Show hosted by Mac King with Retonio and Natalie, Les Arnold, Lance Rich and David Sandy and closed by David Goldrake

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:17 - Ron Anderson tells his heartfelt feelings about seeing the Copperfield museum

00:07:43 - Stan Allen talks about this convention and MAGIC Live which didn’t happen this year. Also, we mentioned the talk by David Charvet but had forgotten the name of the person who became “Alexander, the Man Who Knows”. The name we were trying to think of was Claude Alexander Conlin.

00:31:50 - Bill Smith is the organizer of this event and sits down for a short chat about this and next year’s event which will be in Austin, Texas

00:39:35 - David Elliott gives his experience of this convention and visiting the Copperfield museum

00:46:14 - Lance Rich talks gives a brief history of magic in Las Vegas then he and David Sandy talk about the Collector’s Corner they did online for the past year.

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323: David Sandy Produces

David Sandy does indeed produce. He does what he says. He produces and delivers results. But beyond that, he is a successful producer not only of his own show in Performing Arts Centers across the U.S. performing magic with major symphony orchestras, but he has also produced shows for several other artists, most notably, Tom Mullica as "Red Skelton".

America's FUNNIEST Tribute Show, Tom Mullica as "Red Skelton" produced by David Sandy.

Guess who's coming to the Workshop Revival?

Time Stamps for this Podcast:

00:04:27 - David Sandy talks about Faucett Ross, producing shows for Tom Mullica, Darren Romeo, and others plus producing various conventions.

01:08:48 - Jeff Prace "The Seach Engine Pen" product review - Recommended

01:10:57 - Steve Mayhew "Totally Whacked" DVD product review - Recommended

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We hope you took advantage of the $30 discount off of the full registration price for this event that was offered to our listeners. The Workshop Revival is now history and those who attended were all winners.

250: At Home With Lupe & Norm Nielsen

After the 2015 MAGIC Live! convention, I stayed over for an extra day so as to visit with one of magic's legends: Norm Nielsen. I spoke with Lupe about coming over to their home to chat and see the poster collection. She told me that the bulk of their collection is now in Chicago preparing to be auctioned off by Potter & Potter over the next two years. But I was still welcome to come by for coffee and a visit. So I did.

Fortunately, I had visited their home and collection in 2007 when I also snapped some lovely photos which are on this blog. I also posted some pictures from this year's visit. Perhaps you can tell what a difference eight years makes.

Lupe talked about Norm's poster collection at the Order of Merlin breakfast at the combined IBM/SAM convention in St. Louis. You can Click Here to hear that interesting, historical presentation. Unfortunately, you cannot view the beautiful posters that she showed in her presentation, but the stories are interesting.

00:01:56 - Norm Nielsen and Lupe talk about their magic poster collection, how he came to start collecting and what is happening to it now. He also talks about his long career as a performer and builder and creator. He has many stories about other magic legends he has met along the way, not the least of which was his good friend, Tobias "Theo" Leendert Bamberg "Okito" (1875-1963) . During this chat in Norm's living room, his lovely wife, Lupe, fills in some details and gives us some additional background information. David Sandy and Lance Rich are also in attendance "in the studio audience" who ask some relevant questions, too.

00:59:07 - After our chat, we go out to the workshop where David shares a funny story about Faucett Ross. This is a legendary story that is Mac King's favorite story and has to be heard by this larger, podcast audience in order to preserve it for posterity.

Check back with Potter & Potter from time to time to see when the Nielsen Poster collection will be put "on the auction block".

631: 2021 Magic Collector Expo - Day Three

323: David Sandy Produces

250: At Home With Lupe & Norm Nielsen

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