Real Work on Restaurants and Bars - Jay Sankey

[UKGareth]

Jay also teaches you 15 of his all-time favorite restaurant and bar effects, many of which he is sharing for the very first time. Learn incredibly commercial magic and mentalism with playing cards, coins, bottle caps, creamers, sugar packets, crayons, drinking straws, wine corks and business cards!

Just some of the routines included:

PERMANENT PRESS: Super visual "strong man" magic with a bottle cap!
HOT WAX: Break and restore a crayon in a flash of fire!
GUARANTEED: A one card stunner with a killer giveaway!
CUT & RESTRAWED: Jay favorite effect with a drinking straw!
AIRTIGHTER: The stress-free handling of "Airtight" Jay always does in the "real world!" And yes- the balloon NEVER breaks!
FOUR SEASONS: A "just found" button changes into three different coins!
POPULATION EXPLOSION: A hyper-practical climax to any sponge ball (or "Earplug!") routine!
MERGER: Two business cards reveal the identity of two selections!
AMPHIBEAN: A borrowed and marked coin appears inside a sealed creamer!
SUGAR-COATED: The most practical torn + restored sugar packet in the world!
FREEZER BURN: A few ounces of the spectator's own drink is frozen into an ice cube!
CORKER: Two halves of a broken cork are visually melted back together!
THE BLACKPOOL EFFECT: The routine everyone is talking about. A mind-blowing combination of magic and mentalism. Jay has been nailing seasoned magicians with this ingenious card routine for years!

PICTURE PERFECT: Jays version of the "Geni" card effect from "Out to Lunch" and makes a great way to hand out a business card

PAPER MACHE: A new magic effect using paper ketchup pots that makes for a great opener also a "extra" additional to use for this routine

SWEET BREAD: A bank note turns into a sugar packet in the spec own closed fist!

Description :
To make this DVD even MORE valuable, Jay also shares with you the real work on approaching tables, choosing routines, selling yourself to management, restaurants vs. bars, inspiring tips, openers and closers, being a team player, scripting effects, performing for "regulars" and a great deal more!

Contains 15 outstanding routines and over 2 hours of priceless information learned over hundreds of nights of real-world performing.

Duration: 140 minutes

Review:

Yep good old Jay has done it again, this has to be one of the best DVDs I have purchased in the last year.

All the effects fit the venure and are easy to perform. I would really recomend that you listen to the advice he gives as this can really help any magican wanting to work this type of venue.

Two effects I love are "GUARANTEED" and "The Blackpool Effect".

My rating for this is 12/10. It is that good (in my eyes!)

Now only thing I can see that could be changed to make this better is to have had the effects on DVD and the business side in a book. I think that would have given Jay a little more room to pack in the information, but the info here is really good.

UKGareth

[Exitmat]

I really liked this DVD a lot too. Definitely worth the price tag--good tricks, good information. The only thing I thought it was missing was live performances of the routines in restaurants or bars rather than in a studio.

UKGareth, if you're looking for a good book on this type of thing Kirk Charles wrote an excellent book titled The Complete Guide to Restaurant and Walk-Around Magic. Very informative.


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Mat

[UKGareth]

I really liked this DVD a lot too. Definitely worth the price tag--good tricks, good information. The only thing I thought it was missing was live performances of the routines in restaurants or bars rather than in a studio.

UKGareth, if you're looking for a good book on this type of thing Kirk Charles wrote an excellent book titled The Complete Guide to Restaurant and Walk-Around Magic. Very informative.


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Mat

Any lnks for this or even a review?

[The kid houdini]

Can you describe the routines not included in the description?

[UKGareth]

Can you describe the routines not included in the description?

Have edited the review with the 3 missing routines

[Exitmat]

I really liked this DVD a lot too. Definitely worth the price tag--good tricks, good information. The only thing I thought it was missing was live performances of the routines in restaurants or bars rather than in a studio.

UKGareth, if you're looking for a good book on this type of thing Kirk Charles wrote an excellent book titled The Complete Guide to Restaurant and Walk-Around Magic. Very informative.


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Mat

Any lnks for this or even a review?

Review: http://www.magictalk.com/cgi-bin/reviews.cgi?read=117

I bought mine off Ellusionist (they're sold out of it now) but you can order it from Kirk Charles himself off his site: http://www.kirkcharles.net/book.html. It says to email him at kirkcharles@kirkcharles.net to order.

Hope that helps. Happy Magic.

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Mat

[UKGareth]

Cheers mate, nice one