My principal who I work for asked if I would do a Free 25 minute show during our fifth grade Rock-A-Thon last night. I said sure no problem but I have never done stage. I normally just do close up or occasionally some parlor type effects. Audience was 50 fifth graders and 7 adult teachers.
I opened with a joke about me always being short and getting picked on as a child and so I had come up with a way to scare away bullies. I used the Spiral Optical Illusion that makes your head grow after they stare into it for the 30 seconds.
The kids were way back from me so apparently they said my head was enormous.
Great laugh and went over well.
I followed that up with calling 2 students up on stage for a gum pulling contest where I gave them "free selection -- yah right" of dubble bubble gum pieces as I proceeded to unwrap mine which held the gum pull that looks just like pink bubble gum. The first kids chewed and then proceeded to pull his gum about a foot and a half out. The audience laughed. The next girl pulled hers out about 2 feet long and did a nice job. Everyone clapped. I then followed her up by very dramatically and comically pulling mine out 25 foot long and draped it over their arms and continued pulling as I walked the distance of the stage. HILARIOUS. The place went nuts.
Next up I talked about all the diet crazes that are out there and that I had found a way to diet by eating light weight objects such as balloons. I had my balloons prepped to do the balloon swallow only all three that I had prepped "failed on me and popped as I was pumping them" Rats...the show was going well up until then. I promised them I would attempt the balloon swallow at recess on monday.
Up next was Stratosphere with the three balls that continually switch positions inside the clear tube when covered. This went over awesome as it always does.
I then did a sponge ball routine with a spectator on stage and concluded it with the last ball turning into the red square. Put it on the kids head and said "Look, a block head." The kids all laughed and so did the child. I know these kids so I knew who I could pick for this and not cause issues.
Next up...Invisible deck routine into the crowd with the typical humor and tossing it back to me. This stunned them because with my reveal of the card, I do it Sankey style with their card being the only one with a big black X on it because I have them draw the X on it with their imaginary black sharpie. Utter Silence when I revealed. YOu could hear a pin in the gymnasium and then gasps. Ha Ha.
My finale was Daniel Garcia's Fraud. This was the best part of the night because when I finished making the Letter D move to the other side of the dollar...I let the child take it out into the audience and pass it around for examination. People were going nuts. Only downfall is I should have used an ELMO "opaque projector" to shoot this one onto a big screen. People couldn't see when I was moving the letter on the dollar.
Here is the kicker: My principal pulls me aside after I say my thank you's and good night and says, "Mr. Everhart....you do realize that out of every child in the gym, you chose the girl for Fraud, whose father is a police office and an FBI undercover agent. I was like, "OH CRAP". That girl took the dollar home to him signed with her name on it. Ha Ha. I bet he is going to be looking that thing over very closely. See you all in jail...I'm sure he will take it well.
All in all it was a great night. It gets your adrenaline reved up. I couldn't sleep for over 3 hours because it went so well. Hope everyone enjoyed reading this.
I opened with a joke about me always being short and getting picked on as a child and so I had come up with a way to scare away bullies. I used the Spiral Optical Illusion that makes your head grow after they stare into it for the 30 seconds.
The kids were way back from me so apparently they said my head was enormous.
Great laugh and went over well.
I followed that up with calling 2 students up on stage for a gum pulling contest where I gave them "free selection -- yah right" of dubble bubble gum pieces as I proceeded to unwrap mine which held the gum pull that looks just like pink bubble gum. The first kids chewed and then proceeded to pull his gum about a foot and a half out. The audience laughed. The next girl pulled hers out about 2 feet long and did a nice job. Everyone clapped. I then followed her up by very dramatically and comically pulling mine out 25 foot long and draped it over their arms and continued pulling as I walked the distance of the stage. HILARIOUS. The place went nuts.
Next up I talked about all the diet crazes that are out there and that I had found a way to diet by eating light weight objects such as balloons. I had my balloons prepped to do the balloon swallow only all three that I had prepped "failed on me and popped as I was pumping them" Rats...the show was going well up until then. I promised them I would attempt the balloon swallow at recess on monday.
Up next was Stratosphere with the three balls that continually switch positions inside the clear tube when covered. This went over awesome as it always does.
I then did a sponge ball routine with a spectator on stage and concluded it with the last ball turning into the red square. Put it on the kids head and said "Look, a block head." The kids all laughed and so did the child. I know these kids so I knew who I could pick for this and not cause issues.
Next up...Invisible deck routine into the crowd with the typical humor and tossing it back to me. This stunned them because with my reveal of the card, I do it Sankey style with their card being the only one with a big black X on it because I have them draw the X on it with their imaginary black sharpie. Utter Silence when I revealed. YOu could hear a pin in the gymnasium and then gasps. Ha Ha.
My finale was Daniel Garcia's Fraud. This was the best part of the night because when I finished making the Letter D move to the other side of the dollar...I let the child take it out into the audience and pass it around for examination. People were going nuts. Only downfall is I should have used an ELMO "opaque projector" to shoot this one onto a big screen. People couldn't see when I was moving the letter on the dollar.
Here is the kicker: My principal pulls me aside after I say my thank you's and good night and says, "Mr. Everhart....you do realize that out of every child in the gym, you chose the girl for Fraud, whose father is a police office and an FBI undercover agent. I was like, "OH CRAP". That girl took the dollar home to him signed with her name on it. Ha Ha. I bet he is going to be looking that thing over very closely. See you all in jail...I'm sure he will take it well.
All in all it was a great night. It gets your adrenaline reved up. I couldn't sleep for over 3 hours because it went so well. Hope everyone enjoyed reading this.
