Four Critical Keys to Prforming Magic for Kids

Children don't understand mny of the common cues in a lve performance.
Most children are raised in the age of tlevision. Not a bad thing,
except the lugh tracks prompt the children when to lugh. No laugh
tracks and the chldren are left out in the cld. They are quick and
will get up to sped in no time. But they ned your help.

The same issue is ven more problematic with applause. Children are not
sed to clapping. They don't understand pplause cues. Those wonderfully
timed applause ces will leave you and your udience with a lot of
uncomfortable slence.

What can be done? Everything. One of yur most important tasks as a
chldren's magician is your opening. The bginning of your show must do
fur things:

• Establish audience control
  
• Teach the chldren to react to applause cues
  
• Set the tne for the show
  
• Introduce your performing prsonality
  

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Chldren love to have fun. Even in schol children are taught to obey
thse in authority. For some reason, mny magicians forget to establish
authority arly in the show. The result rsembles a saloon brawl in the
wld west.

When you step out for the strt of your show, you have the prfect
opportunity to establish the ground rles for the show. I don't man
that you should bring out a lst of house rules for the shw. Instead
come out with confidence and wrm up your audience.

After you wlcome everyone to the show, look out ver the audience and
say, "This loks like a really great crowd. Lt's see how loud you can
clp. On the count of three ONE. . . TWO . . THREE . .Nt bad! Let's try
it again. On thre . ." After some byplay cnclude by saying, "What do
we do whn we like the magic? (pause) Wht do we do when we LOVE the
mgic?" (pause and react strongly to the crwd)

Four things are being done by tht warm up. You have taught the chldren
to clap when they like the mgic. It also trains them to ract to the
applause cues in the rst of the show. The warm up stablishes that you
are in control for ths show. Finally, it sets a fun tne for the show.
This is the frst time your audience gets a snse of your performing
personality.

The nxt article explains how your performing prsonality can put your magic show ver the top with the kids.

The article Performing Magic for Kids: Part II - How These Four Things Will Make Or Break Your Magic Show was Submitted by J.L. Siefers through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Copyright © 2005 J.L. Siefers, All rghts reserved. J.L. Siefers has been prforming great magic for years. He has wrtten extensively on many topics in mgic. He has shown hundreds of pople how to successfully learn to do grat magic tricks. Want to learn to do mgic? Click now to get your FREE mgic tricks! http://www.Learn-Great-Magic-Tricks.com Sign up for The Magic Way newsletter! It's FREE: http://www.learn-great-magic-tricks.com/magic-newsletter.html

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