Why You Should Hire an Expensive Parlor Magician for your Dinner Party...

Why You Should Hire an Expensive Parlor Magician for your Dinner Party...

Or:  If you're a magician, read this, because it's about setting your niche, even if this isn't it. 

This only applies if you have a really cool home or are willing to rent a mansion and have it catered, have a semi-formal dinner, a special occasion, something that actually warrants that old Victorian / Edwardian touch.  It applies if you have an urge to do something that your peers haven't done, to stand out and above.

Here are some tips:

1. Look to get a forty to sixty minute show.  If you want it shorter, fine, but don't think about going short to get lower prices.
2.  Not every magician is a true parlor magician.  Parlor magic is intimate, involves audience members frequently, and isn't comedy magic.  Sure, it has lots of fun and laughs in it, but that's not the theme.
3.  Try to avoid having your guests over indulging in drink.
4.  The right look for a parlor magician is to be dressed in parlor magic era attire.
5.  Parlor magicians, historically, were not young people.  Authenticity might best be attained with a magician over thirty-five.  The younger set of magi tend toward new and trendy, street, punk and casual magic.
6.  If the magician you hire doesn't command a respectable price, you have the wrong magician.  You are doing this to provide first class entertainment for your guests.  That alone speaks to the price.

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If our senses of vision and hearing, even touch, can be fooled by a simple sleight of hand move, what can our brains be expected to do with more complicated messages?  If what we believe we see is not necessarily what we get, then what about what we believe we know, period? 
I've a T-shirt with a message that reads, "Don't believe everything you think."  What do you think of that?

Heard an intriguing quote recently; it said, "People expect magical solutions to their problems, but they don't believe in magic." 
There is wonderful irony in this.  My perspective is that Irony is the litmus test for reality.  If it's ironic, it's real.  I can use the same magic to make you believe I am in touch with your departed loved ones that I use to perform a mentalism show, yet you might strongly believe that you are connecting with the spirits, while doubting I can read your mind. 
"What about 'real' magic?", you might inquire.  A shrug, a sly smile and a wink, I reply.

Magic is Real - or Becomes So

The people who dablle in making real world invisibility cloaks, flying suits, and the like, prefer to refer to science fiction as speculative fiction, and to their endeavors as speculative science.  All magic is permised on "What if...?" So long as we imagine, we will endeavor to create reality from it.  Imagine, I put a copper British Penny into one hand, a silver half dollar in the other, close them, open them, and they have changed places, although the hands have never come near reach other, and you've seen both hands containing only those coins... Teleportation.  I put a ball beneth a cup, and it vanishes, only to reappear beneath another cup eight inches away.  A magician's feat celebrated in picture on one of the pyramids in the Valley of the Kings.  Speculative Magic, for sure.