How do you Stroll?

[amsmagic]

Here's a question to the working restaurant and walk around/wedding magicians out there!

How do you guys stroll? Do you literally go from one table to the one next to it? How do you control the tables? What's your method?

Let's discuss.

 

[Josh Burch]

I look for tables who look friendly to start out and move to other tables where I think that I will be received well. I usually look for children first and move onto adults as they begin to see that I am competent.

 

[Justin.Morris]

This totally depends on the room. I have a set that gets a lot of applause, so I usually do a table on one side of the room, then the other. Then I move back to the first side and start working through the tables. After hearing the applause, people want me to be at their table and are anticipating my arrival. Then I progress using two or three different sets.

Last weekend I did a gig that was four hours of strolling magic for 55 people. Used so much of my material! I made 6 sets, and passed the room using the first three (which each had similar elements) and then passed through the room with the second set of three routines. Then I had a list of things that I had prepared a few of and passed through the room with that material - hitting each table with a little extra effect. Worked pretty well, but I used all of my best material and they want to have me back next year! I had better get practicing some older material!