922: Abbott's Get Together 2025 - Day Four Report

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2ND 2025

9:30AM REGISTRATION OPENS at the Abbott Plant
10:00AM ABBOTT'S DEALERS ROOM OPENS (Requires Registration)
11:00AM LECTURE Marc DeSouza (Requires Registration)
1:00PM LECTURE Artem Shchukin (Requires Registration)
1:00PM MAGIC SHOW at Abbott's Magic Showroom Theatre $5
3:00PM LECTURE Lance Burton & Friends (Requires Registration)
3:30PM MAGIC SHOW at Abbott's Magic Showroom Theatre $5
6:00PM-7:45PM DINNER (on your own)
7:45PM PRESHOW LIVE ORGAN MUSIC - by John Sturk
8:00PM GET-TOGETHER STAGE SHOW - Saturday Night Gala Show
Featuring Greg Frewin & Alexandra, Dan Sperry, John Shyrock
Requires Registration or Tickets
10:00PM ABBOTT'S DEALERS ROOM RE-OPENS (Requires Registration)
10:30PM ABBOTT'S PERFORMER AWARDS (Requires Registration)

Time Stamps: These will be posted after I have gotten some sleep.

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921: Abbott's Get Together 2025 - Day Three Report

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1st 2025

9:30AM REGISTRATION OPENS at the Abbott Plant
10:00AM ABBOTT'S DEALERS ROOM OPENS (Requires Registration)
11:30AM LECTURE Jeff Hobson (Requires Registration)
1:00PM MAGIC SHOW at Abbott's Magic Showroom Theatre $5
2:30PM ABBOTT'S CLOSEUP SHOW John Shyrock, Marc DeSouza, Tom Ewing, Diego Vargas (Requires Registration)
3:30PM MAGIC SHOW at Abbott's Magic Showroom Theatre $5
6:00PM-7:45PM DINNER (on your own)
7:45PM PRESHOW LIVE ORGAN MUSIC - by John Sturk
8:00PM GET-TOGETHER STAGE SHOW - Friday Night Gala Show
Featuring Dale Salwak, Tom Ewing, David Charvet, Marc DeSouza,Craig Diamond
Requires Registration or Tickets
10:00PM ABBOTT'S DEALERS ROOM RE-OPENS (Requires Registration)

Time Stamps for this episode:

00:00:19 - Mark Holstein has been the Stage Manager for 40 years and talks about some of the great acts he’s worked with over the years.

00:14:28 - John Sturk, Past National President of the S.A.M., has been the keyboard artist for the evening shows for the past 20 years or so. In the past, he has also coordinated the street performers shows.

00:26:50 - Terry Evanswood is a real pro who filled in on the previous night’s show for one of the missing acts. He talks about his new Evanswood Magic Theatre in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

00:35:31 Mike Miller is the talent booker for the Get Together and he talks about why he booked the acts he did.

00:45:32 - Gay Blackstone is so important to the Get Together and she never misses one of these. She is now busy producing the Masters of Illusion television show and preparing to tape season 11.

00:53:07 - B.J. Mallon has a couple new books out, one a book of poems and the other a children’s book. He is a perennial favorite master of ceremonies.

01:00:22 - Jania Taylor is one of the street performers at the Get Together again this year. She is also the President of the Board of Directors of the American Museum of Magic located in Marshall, Michigan, which is only about 30 miles from Colon.

920: Abbott's Get Together 2025 - Day Two Report

THURSDAY, JULY 31ST 2025

9:30AM REGISTRATION OPENS at the Abbott Plant
10:00AM ABBOTT'S DEALERS ROOM OPENS (Requires Registration)
11:00AM LECTURE Mortenn Christiansen (Requires Registration)
12:00PM FREE STREET PERFORMANCE - Gordon Russ @ Curly's
1:00PM LECTURE John Shyrock (Requires Registration)
1:00PM MAGIC SHOW at Abbott's Magic Showroom Theatre $5
2:00PM JAY BLACKWELL JUGGLING/FIRE EATING & MORE at Sterlini Magic & Theater $10
2:30PM FREE STREET PERFORMANCE - The Amazing Bibik! @ Granny's Place
2:30PM VENT O RAMA with Brynn Cummings at Abbotts Plant (Requires Registration)
3:00PM FACE PAINTING till 6PM outside 5 Star Pizza by Award Winning Artist Carol Hendrix (Standard Fees)
3:00PM-5PM COLON HISTORICAL MUSEUM is open
3:45PM FAMOUS MAGICIANS GRAVEYARD TOUR ushered by Al The Only
3:30PM MAGIC SHOW at Abbott's Magic Showroom Theatre $5
5:00PM LIVE AT 5 WITH THE STERLINI'S at Sterlini Magic & Theater $10
5:30PM FREE STREET PERFORMANCE - Cap'n Sean & Mirf @ Magic Capital Grill
6:00PM-7:45PM DINNER (on your own)
7:45PM PRESHOW LIVE ORGAN MUSIC - by John Sturk
8:00PM GET-TOGETHER STAGE SHOW - Thursday Night Gala Show
Featuring Mike Caveney, Tom Ewing, David Charvet, Marc DeSouza,Craig Diamond
Requires Registration or Tickets
10:00PM ABBOTT'S DEALERS ROOM RE-OPENS (Requires Registration)
10:15PM CURLYS CLOSEUP CONTEST

Time Stamps for this episode:

00:00:17 - Jeff Jakorski and Marc DeSouza get ready for the Get Together. Jeff is serving as Security, checking badges, and Marc is booked as talent who will lecture and perform.

00:14:20 - Anthony Gerard is a dealer who always sets up under a tent near the high school where they hold the lectures and shows. Tony has been coming since 1969.

00:25:05 - Charles Greene III talks about this being his first time attending a Get Together and why it’s taken so long to get here.

00:33:57 - David Charvet is another performer/lecturer at this Get Together. We chat a bit about the evening’s show hosted by Michael Caveney.