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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