The Real Deal - A Magician Prepares By Dennis Loomis

Introduction and Interview by Michael Close

Foreword by Gene Anderson

In The Real Deal - A Magician Prepares you'll find sage advice, handy tips, time-saving suggestions, full-blown routines for stage and stand-up, routines for children (for both school assembly and party venues), memorized deck information, and great stories and reminiscences. The final chapter includes several of Dennis's articles about his long-time friend Doug Henning. Don't skip that chapter; in it, Dennis explains the evolution of one of the iconic illusions of the twentieth century - an illusion he helped popularize.

Even if you never perform any of the routines in this ebook, you'll find ideas you can apply to your own routines - ideas that will save you time and money. This, of course, is the great gift an experienced professional can bequeath to the magic community. Dennis did the work; he identified the problems, solved them, and shared the solutions. I wish he was still around to continue that process, but I'm grateful for what he left behind. As you work your way through this ebook, I know you'll feel that way, too.

Four chapters devoted to hints, tips, and practical suggestions, twenty chapters with complete stand-up routines, great stories from the road, a chapter with stories about Doug Henning, a chapter on memorized deck magic, and an interview with Michael Close. Truly something for everyone in this special book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction by Michael Close
Foreword by Gene Anderson
Interview: Dennis Loomis: Well Prepared
Preparing for the Show
Sound Advice
-A Few More Thoughts on Microphones
Mark Your Way
The Twentieth Century Scarves
-An Alternative Vanish
Full-Light Spirit Seance Breakthrough
The Simplex Salt Pour
-Simplex Salt Pour - Version 1
-Simplex Salt Pour - Version 2
-Catching the Salt
Making All Of The Alcohol In The World Disappear!
-The Props
-The Set-up
-The Routine
Cutting up Jackpots
-The Bentley Chronicles
-Touring with Magic-Capades
Neil Foster's Miniature Indian Rope Trick
My Friend the Straitjacket
-The National School Assemblies Agency
Improved, Improved Jumbo Jest
-Improved, Improved Jumbo Jest (The Dennis Loomis Version)
The Balloon Show: Balloons for Kid's Birthday Parties
Wellington Enterprises Magic Switchboard
-The History
-The Patter
-Introduction
-Phase One
-Phase Two
-Phase Three
-Phase Four
-Phase Five
The Double Penetration
A Visit with Richard Himber
-Himber Ring Routine
The Ron Leonard-Doug Henning Livestock Production
Tri-Color Rope and Knots
Jumbo Three Card Monte
-Phase One: Introducing the Concept of Find the Lady
-Phase Two: The Swing Move
-Phase Three: The Mark
-Phase Four: Two Card Monte and Slow Motion
Seven Keys to Baldpate
The Engagement Ring Production
The Tip-over Box
The Assistant's Revenge
Perfect Time Watch Controller
Loomis on the memorized deck
-Memorized Deck Mastery
-The Scallop Short
-Loomis on Histed Heisted
Bits and Pieces
-Table Talk
-In the Cards
-Monte Stand
-Leather Deck Case
-Color-changing Knife Routine Finale
-Power Cords
-Playing "Happy Birthday" on the Bells
-The ABC Blocks
-Turning One Sock into a Pair
-The Trident
-On Improving
-On Getting Paid
-The Day They Turned the Power Out
-The Missing School
-The "Natural Amphitheater" Show
-The Strangest Show I've ever Done
THE SKINNY KID WITH THE OVERBITE
-A Card Trick for Doug
-The Blaney Stepladder Suspension
-Doug, Dennis, and the Zig Zag Girl Illusion
-How I Learned to Stop Saying "No" to Doug Henning
-Another Story