Sounds great on the table hopping. Wow...4 hours is a bit long. I guarantee your have your material down pretty darn good after all the nights of doing that. When you are doing the half hour shows for the teens, kids, and at the end of the day....where is that? In a room? On a stage? In a parlour style room? Just curious. Thanks for responding.
Do you get down time to visit the places like a tourist or is that when you rest in between working? What benefits are there? Free food? Laundry done for you? It is all new to me so I am just throwing questions out there at you.
Maybe it would be cool to have some of our guys post questions and you do a little video interview or something.
No problem man, glad I can help. That's funny actually because I was thinking of doing a pdf (really long pdf) about cruise ship magic, but as you can see, I don't have much time to do it. Maybe a video interview would be a much better idea.
You're absolutely right about getting material down. If you really want to work hard, you can do around 50 performances of the same trick, per day. You can be sure that at the end of the week, you are going to have that effect down in every possible way.
Now, for the kids shows, you are pretty much just standing in front of a group of people (kids, teenagers, adults, depends what show you are doing), and just doing magic for half an hour. It's not a stage, or a parlor stage, you are just standing there, and they are either standing or sitting down, or both. That can be really tricky for the angles, but you get it down pretty quickly.
You can do what ever you want, it can all be stand up, or you can bring a portable table, and do magic on the table. The only downside of the table is when you are performing for kids, since they are going to be sitting down on the floor the whole time (there is around 60 kids on the show on average, not all of them can sit on the chairs), so they will not be able to see anything.
For grown ups, you can use the table since they are all standing up anyways.
You do the kids show in the kids club, and you do teenager show in the teenager club
For grownups, you just do in in the middle of the hallway on the ship, so they gather around and watch. Think of busking on the street, it's the same thing (without begging for money
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Now the perks of working on a ship. Yes, you are free to go out and explore the ports every single time, you don't work while the ship is in port. You can explore, you can sleep until 5pm, what ever you want to do, free as a bird. Free food and accommodation, which technically means that you can save every single penny you earn (no taxes btw, which is also great). You just have to buy personal hygiene stuff and that's it. All the expenses are for your own pleasure. Laundry is done for you in a way that they will wash and iron your suit and shirts, but you have to do your own laundry for the personal stuff (T-shirts, socks, underwear etc.)
There is a lot of questions I would like to answer, so just shoot
