Here’s Gazzo. Got 40 minutes?
I know instinctively that this video will not be to everybody’s tastes. Regardless, the only thing I can say is this: this video is important. It’s similar to Penn and Teller — you can like it or hate, but you can’t ignore it, because in all likelihood more people have seen this performance than they have seen your preferred magic show. It’s worth watching, if only to see what you’re competing with. You’ll have to wait more than 20 minutes to see the cups and balls, but if you care about magic, you’ll watch. You might not like what you’re watching, that’s fine, but you’ll watch anyway.
If nothing else, look at the crowd. They don’t go away. They watch the entire thing. And they get the cups and balls. And they get a better climax than Vernon gave them.
Perhaps, more than any other entry this month, this video shows what it means to perform the cups and balls for people, since it’s directly tied into the history of it all — a guy on the street, his table, a random crowd, and his props.
Given all this, where do you fit in?
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I live in London and I have seen many people perform the exact same show in Convent Garden everyday, even the jokes are the same. I am not sure why but it seems that this is a standard street magic performance nowadays.
Personally I find Gazzo’s performance absolutely hilarious and entertaining but I don’t think I would do it that way. We can certainly learn some tips on audience management from the video and the difference between the magic we like, the magic that sells and people remember, and the magic sold to us that nobody remember.
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