Key #6 Smile\
Your show will improve with the simplicity of a smile and it will show that you are relaxed and confident. A smile helps your audience to like you. If they like you they will like what you do and this makes it easier to make the magic happen. Your audience is there to have a good time, so just relax, smile and have some fun with your magic.
Key #7 Look Them in the Eyes.
Keep your focus on your audience and look into their eyes. Move your glance around the room. Do not just look at your hands or the back wall of the room, look around and if possible look into the eyes of each person in the audience. This is a great way to draw people into what you are doing. They will feel involved and not ignored.
Key #8 Treat Your Volunteers with Respect
A volunteer is an honored guest who is helping you with your show. If you treat that person like a star, the audience will like you and this will help your show be enjoyed more.
Seven quick tips to making your magic show better with volunteers:
1) Treat them like a guest
2) Say please and thank you to your guest.
3) Give them clear directions on where to stand and how you’d like them to help.
4) Give them lots of praise and tell them how well they are doing.
5) When they go back to their seat –thank them and ask for a round of applause.
6) Treat them with kindness and respect. Treat them the way you would like to be treated.
7) Never make them feel like a fool.
Key #9 Have Good Sound and Light
Work in the brightest area of the room. Do not have light behind you as it may give away how a trick is done and it makes it hard to see the trick. Be sure you can be heard. Speak loud and clear. Do not yell. If on stage, use a microphone.
Key #10 Practice your Cool Magic Tricks Practice makes better. No one can be perfect all the time, but you can get very good with practice. Use a mirror and video camera. Also just take a deck of cards or coin with you and practice while on the bus or in the car (if someone else is driving).
The more you practice the faster you will see your magic show get better. You have to want to be better and if you want to improve the biggest secret is practice.
Now that you know ten ways to make your magic show better, go do it. You will be glad with the results. Your audience will be glad too.
Read part of this story to learn about the first five steps.
Norm Barnhart is a Minneapolis-based comedy magician who has entertained in Minnesota, Wisconsin and in all fifty states.
