A Magician’s Guide to Ad-libs, Improvisation, and Audience Interaction.
Learn the techniques to creating inspired moments of comedy, and engaging your audience with the spark of spontaneity.
Including four stand-up magic routines, forged in the fires of improvisation, to turn a passive crowd into active participants.
Contents
Part One: Performing with Presence
Choose To Improvise – How improvisation benefits your performance.
Nuts & Bolts of Improvisation – The three-step recipe for making it up.
Real World Improvisation – A look at how improvisation and ad-libs happen in real life performances.
Improvising Your Way Out of Problems – Being flexible, attentive, and quick on your feet to dodge trouble.
Writing Through Improvisation – Boost your creativity while planning and preparing your act.
Practicing Improvisation – How to develop your mental muscles for quick thinking.
How To Begin Improvising – Prepare to be unprepared.
Working With Audience Members – The chapter I am most proud of! This digs into the entire lifecycle of engaging with an audience from beginning to end to build rapport and increase engagement.
Live and Learn – One final word of encouragement.
Part Two: Magic Made for the Moment
Energized Cards Across – My shows go better after this whole-audience ice-breaker get everyone physically engaged and participating in the fun.
Union Policy – Tracing the evolution of my Magician’s Insurance Policy routine to ridiculous heights, through a major crash, and re-birth. Teaches a variety of ideas and techniques along the way.
How To Be a Magician In Trouble – Tips on acting in the moment of failure to make it believable.
V.I.Psychic – A V.I.P. guest becomes the mind-reader in this bespoke Psychometry routine. Ideal for corporate messaging, trade show, and sponsor featurettes.
Water You Want From Me? – A three cup monte that gets your audience hollering as you play the fool.
Includes online access to a Digital Appendix with supplemental downloads, videos, and potential updates.
