856: Magic Texas - Day Three Report

Sunday September 1st, 2024

Subject to change

6:00 - 8:00 AM Invisible Lodge
7:00 - 8:00 AM Religious Meeting/Gospel Magic
8:00 - 8:30 AM TAOM General Meeting
8:30 – 10:00 AM Combined TAOM Willard Breakfast & SAM Life Member Breakfast
10:00 AM - 6:30 PM TAOM 2025 and SAM 2025 Registration Opens
9:00 AM -7:00 PM Youth Academy
10:00 AM -5:00 PM Dealers Room Open
9:00 - 10:00 AM SESSION #5 – Choice Between; Marc DeSouza – Competing at Conventions Joel Zaritsky – Improving Your Magic Club
10:30 AM -11:30 AM Lecture – Eric Chein
12:00 – 1:30: PM Stage Magic Contest
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Lecture – Syouma
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM SESSION #6 – Choice Between; Panel Discussion – Don’t Be a Jerk on the Internet – Exposure & Civility (Panel : Stan Allen, Brian South, Scott Wells and more) and Rodney James Piper – Creating a Performance Space
5:00 - 7:00 PM Banquet and Reception – Gustavo Raley Entertainment Transfer of Power; TAOM & SAM, Special Awards
7:00 PM BUS OR SELF DRIVE TO UT ARLINGTON Texas Hall Theater
7:30 – 8:00 PM Announce FISM & TAOM Contest Awards and Acts for People Choice
8:00 – 9:30 PM
Champions of FISM GALA SHOW – Texas Hall on the UTA Campus Starring; Shawn Farquhar, Eric Chien, Laurent Piron, Artem Shchukin, and Norbert Ferre.
10:00 - 11:00 PM Magic Auction Live - Greg Wilson
10:00 – 10:30 PM Mind2Mind Mentalism Session #6 (30 Person Limit – Must be pre-registered)
10:30 – 11:00 PM Mind2Mind Mentalism Session #7 (30 Person Limit – Must be pre-registered)
11:00 – 11:30 PM Mind2Mind Mentalism Session #8 (30 Person Limit – Must be pre-registered)
11:30 PM -1:00 AM President’s Party

Time stamps for this episode: updates will be posted after I get some sleep

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826 - Mike Miller - Talent Booker

More than a magician, Mike Miller, Past National President of the S.A.M., also books talent for many magic conventions including the S.A.M. convention, Abbott’s Get Together, Super Sunday, and many others. He scours the world looking for unique acts to book. He has a good eye for spotting up-and-coming performers before they “hit it big” on the international scene. The best way to be seen by Mike is by competing and performing in other magic conventions. For several years, Mike also booked acts for a multi-city tour of China. Today he regularly performs at the Smoke & Mirrors Theater in Philadelphia while still searching for convention acts. As a result of his untiring efforts in helping magicians around the world, the Academy of Magical Arts will present a Special Fellowship to him at the awards banquet on May 17, 2024.

If you are more of a visual person, then perhaps you might enjoy watching our interaction during our Zoom conversation.

In this episode, Mike Miller talks about his career as a talent booker and how Hank Moorehouse shaped his life. He talks about how he goes about finding unique acts and how he learned to be a stage manager, too.

245: Day One - MAGIC LIve! 2015

For the first day of a four day event that had no scheduled activity until 7:30 p.m., there sure was a lot of meeting and greeting of old friends.

In this first day update, we have some time to chat with many of the friends we ran into. With nearly 1,800 registrants, it's hard to get around to have quality conversations with everyone. But it was great that some people gave me some great quality time albeit short due to the veritable whirlwind of magical luminaries swirling around the casino. Monday will bring us the first full day of activities so I probably should get a little rest. I;m still on Central Time so it is nearly dawn in Texas according to my body clock.

Time stamps for this podcast:

00:00:25 - Charlie Randall of H&R Magic Books joins me at the airport for our flight from Houston to Las Vegas

00:07:17 - Chris Philppott and Steve Valentine, mates of mine from the Magic Castle are the first ones that I got to chat with after I checked into the hotel. Steve talks a bit about his presentation that he will give on Monday and Chris talks about his marketed effect, "French Postcards".

00:11:46 - R. Paul Wilson talks a bit about his movie, "Our Magic"

00:13:25 - "The Evil Twins", Dave Cox and Bruce Gold

00:15:20 - Steve Bryan talks about the Little Egypt Gazette and Randy Wakeman joins us to give us a health report on SIMON Lovell

00:22:44 - Kyle Knight and Mistie talks about their current and future schedule also about their performance on "Wizard Wars" and "Penn & Teller Fool Us".

00:31:35- Jeff and Tessa Evason are joined briefly by Gil Eagles and Ken Weber

00:39:26 - Justin Willman is getting married soon and he talks about that. He is also joined by Sean Popp and Shep Hyken.

00:44:38 - Dustin Stinett talks about the upcoming Genii convention

00:52:26 - Ray Anderson, star of Esther's Follies in Austin, Texas talks about the upcoming Texas Association of Magicians convention and his appearance there.

01:01:47 - Dennis Watkins talks about the return of the Houdini play in Chicago next summer for a 15 week run starting in June 2016.

01:06:52 - Steve Chezaday and Carol talk about Abbott's Get Together that just ended and he flew straight to Las Vegas

01:20:11 - Tom Mullica talks about his late night tales he told by his headstone in the graveyard at Colon, Michigan at Abbott's Get Together last week.

856: Magic Texas - Day Three Report

Sunday September 1st, 2024

826 - Mike Miller - Talent Booker

245: Day One - MAGIC LIve! 2015

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