Magician parties are extremely common. This is a party where magicians gather for social reasons and have entertainment that is magic in nature. The busman’s holiday!
The very first thing you need to know about magicians is that they are always working! If they meet in the street it is not unlikely that certain will move out a bunch of cards and show the other the latest card move. Blackpool hosts a meeting one per year where two thousands magicians descend on the town showing each other tricks in the hotel bars until the early hours.
True magicians are interested in the intricacies of method. What sort of trick works and the endless variations of method which can be invented to attain exactly the same end. So magician parties will inevitably mutate into small groups all showing each other their latest creations.
When it comes to entertainment there are many options, singers, comedians, ventriloquists etc, nevertheless the magician probably will stay safe. Consequently magician parties usually have magicians to entertain.
Sometime ago I went along to Blackpool to celebrate a friends fortieth birthday. Crazy golf each day and numerous fast stomach churning rides in the afternoon Taikuri juhliin. Even as we were searching for somewhere to possess tea one noticed a poster for a secret show. As it happened the afternoon performance was about to begin and without question my friends, all magicians, created for the box office.
It absolutely was a truly awful show and I could see no reason behind spending my free time watching something from which I learned nothing. Maybe it is exactly the same in other professions maybe singers gravitate towards the Karaoke Bar and dancers the west end musical.
Magician parties are by nature filled up with magic and props but comedians are rather different.
Magic is a fantastic art however it can be limited by a small number of things which can be achieved within the framework. Comedy is much more flexible. The kind of people drawn to comedy are inquisitive free thinking people. They go through the world around them and touch upon it. They are generally mature people who have strong opinions, although often wrong and biased.
I’ve driven comedians countless miles without discussing comedy at all. Politics, relationships our personal histories all took up time nevertheless the structure of a laugh was hardly mentioned.
I love magicians and I love magician parties but there’s a preoccupation with magic which I find hard to bear. I actually do like watching an excellent magic show, it is very difficult to have right and whenever you watch a real pro at work it is very inspiring.
The situation with magician parties is that many magicians are showing you the following best thing. The rehearsal time has not been put in and the moves are not quite right. So you see something that is half finished and I prefer to see the real thing.