Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring
Meets 7:00 pm, 1st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC
LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.
www.okcmagic.club
Our annual “Pandemonium of Magic” public show was a rousing success. David Teeman welcomed everyone to the show and introduced President Cassidy Smith as the emcee. Cassidy produced a rose, caused it to multiply, and then changed the color from white to red.
Rick Martin, AKA Professor Ludicrous from the Skunkworks Laboratories, showed a gadget from the firm’s archives that he said he had been trying to figure out. Colored switches always seemed to control the bulbs of the corresponding colors, no matter how the bulbs and switch covers were moved around. He removed one bulb from the socket and attempted to turn it on while he held it in his hand, but was met with a shower of sparks.
Rick Johnson showed a cereal box empty and then poured cereal from the “empty” box into a cereal bowl. He showed a paper sack that he said contained a drink and asked an audience member to name any drink. When an audience member said “orange juice,” Rick removed a can of Dr. Pepper from the sack with a shrug. However, when he poured out the liquid, it proved to be orange juice. He repeated this with another audience member and poured milk from a newly opened Dr. Pepper can.
Rick invited an audience member with a cell phone to join him on stage. He placed her phone into a manila envelope and sealed the envelope. He brought out five fake phones and placed each one into a similar envelope. After mixing the envelopes, he numbered them one through six. He handed the participant a die and asked her to roll it to select a phone. When she rolled a four, Rick set the number four envelope on the table and pounded it with a hammer. This process continued, with much laughter from the audience, until only one envelope remained. He handed this one to the lady and she opened it to reveal her phone.
Brian Tabor performed what he said was his first trick in magic. After showing a candle, he wrapped it in a silk scarf and pulled forth a flower. He threw the scarf to the floor and there was a loud clang when the “candle” hit the floor.
Brian asked three ladies in the audience to each write the name of her first crush on a small piece of paper. He then asked them to drop the pieces of paper into his jacket pocket so he would not know which was which. He pulled the first two pieces of paper from his pocket, read the names, and divined which of the ladies had written each name. He asked the third lady to think of the name she wrote and then divined the name. Brian ended by performing a very entertaining version of the multiplying bottles.
Lee Woodside, AKA “Captain Lee,” honored the military veterans in the audience. He played the anthem of each of the armed services and asked that any vets who served in that service please stand up. He had Brynna and Braylee take a small American flag to each of the honorees. Lee concluded by performing his medicine show multum in parvo routine.
David Teeman unfolded two giant dice and nested them. When he lifted the dice, there was Braylee. David Performed a very moving piece about God, man and sin, each represented by a different color block. The three blocks were threaded on cords, with sin separating God and man. A red silk scarf was placed over the ‘sin’ block and that block penetrated the cords and crashed to the floor, leaving God and man together again. David invited a girl from the audience to help him with a magic trick. David handed her a wand and asked her to wave it over his hand, into which he had stuffed a red silk hanky. The trick failed, so David called for a bigger wand. This continued until the final wand was humongous and the trick finally worked.
Michael King, AKA the “One-Man Circus,” dazzled the audience with his juggling, plate spinning, and unicycle riding abilities. He said he learned these skills when he ran away and joined the circus for a year.
Kevin Brasier and his daughter Molly, along with Molly’s friends Summer and Austin, treated the audience to several illusions. In a gender role reversal, Molly locked Austin into a tall box, inserted steal blades, and pulled his middle section out to the side. After reversing the process, Austin stepped out of the box none the worse for wear. Kevin placed Molly into a box and began inserting geometric shapes through the box, making it seem impossible that she could still be in the box. After removing the shapes, Kevin opened the door and not only was Molly unscathed, but her friend Summer had joined her.
Kevin asked for a volunteer from the audience and a lady came up on stage. Kevin unveiled a wicked-looking head chopper and showed that it was able to easily slice carrots. He locked the lady’s head into the device, and after the usual comedy byplay, he brought down the blade. Fortunately, she was magically unharmed. For the climax of the show, Molly locked Kevin into a sack that was in a large wooded box. She then securely locked the box. She stood on the box holding a large curtain. When she held the curtain over her head and dropped it, there was Kevin standing in her place. Unfortunately, Molly was securely locked in the box because Kevin had accidentally dropped the key. The audience members were thanked for coming and told the show was over. However, no one moved until the key was located and Molly was successfully retrieved from the box.
The theme of our July meeting was “Picnic Magic.” President Cassidy Smith laid a blanket on the floor and set his picnic basket on it. He showed that his lunch box was empty by dropping the two sides. When he closed the box, he took out a thermos, which he said worked like a foo can. He caused a spoon to vanish and then demonstrated his ability to juggle drinking glasses. He put the rim of a plate into his mouth and “bit off” a piece of the plate, which he then restored. Finally, he showed a large ladybug, split it into two ladybugs and performed a sponge ball routine with the two bugs.
Lee Woodside said that picnics are all about food and fun. He said that he had a game that emphasized those two things and invited Kallie and Molly to compete against each other. Lee dumped out a bunch of small drawstring bags, each containing a Hershey’s nugget candy bar. He asked Molly if she preferred the plain or the almond, and she chose the plain. This left Kallie with the almonds. Lee invited the two ladies to take turns using their psychic abilities or their women’s intuition to pick a bag containing the correct chocolate. If they got it right, they got to keep the candy bar. If they got it wrong, the bar went into a discard paper bag. At the conclusion of the game, Lee turned the bag around to show the prediction that Molly would choose almonds and would lose by one. Sure enough, Kallie had eight chocolates and Molly had only seven. However, they were both winners because they got to keep the chocolates they had correctly divined.
David Teeman placed a yellow silk scarf into a change bag. He said that sanity could be determined by what color scarf one sees. He invited Cassidy and Kallie to participate. He showed the open end of the bag to Cassidy and he said he saw yellow. He did the same for Kallie and she saw red. Finally, David removed a rainbow silk scarf from the bag and said, “There is no sanity clause.”
Cassidy invited Rick Johnson, Rick Martin, and Kevin Brasier to each select a card and place it back into the deck. Cassidy said that he had a jumbo card with a prediction of Rick’s card. It turned out the be the venerable 52-on-1 card. Since no one seemed to be impressed, Cassidy brought out his insurance policy covering such magical catastrophes. He opened it up and showed Rick Johnson’s card. He unfolded it once more and there was Rick Martin’s card. Unfolding the policy all the way revealed a very large image of Kevin’s card.
The week after our July meeting, we hosted an ice cream social. The magicians and their families enjoyed ice cream cones, banana splits, root beer floats, brownies, and sodas. It was a great way to beat Oklahoma’s July heat.
Lee Woodside
