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.
Our Pandemonium of Magic public show on June 14th was a crowd-pleasing success. We had a great audience. President Cassidy Smith emceed the show and also performed the classic cups and balls. The other performers were: David Teeman and his lovely young assistants Brynna and Braylee. Grant Vinson, Rick Johnson, Lee Woodside, Michael King, Solomon Strauss (AKA Brian Tabor), and Kevin Brasier and his daughter, Mollie.
Mark Cristiano made balloon animals for the kids before the show and during intermission. Kevin Brasier brought a popcorn machine and a cotton candy machine. Michelle Tabor took numerous professional-quality photos of the event and Kallie designed and printed programs.
The featured performers for our July meeting were Lee Woodside and Michael King. They began with Lee donning a blindfold and facing away from the audience. Michael handed several playing cards to each of five participants and asked each person to remember one of his cards. He then collected the cards, shuffled the deck, and named several cards in this new random order. Lee was able to correctly identify each playing card being thought of.
Michael then donned the blindfold and Lee went through the audience and asked Michael to identify objects owned by audience members. He also had audience members write dates of special events and Michael was able to identify the dates and the type of event. As a finale, Lee showed Justin Teeman a dessert menu and asked him to point to one item. Michael correctly identified the dessert as Amaretto Cheesecake.
Lee Woodside presented a brief lecture on developing a two-person act. He said that the hardest part was finding and keeping a partner for the act.
President Cassidy Smith showed a couple of different color changes, where one playing card instantly changes to another. He gave pointers on how to do it convincingly. Michael King showed us a very nice color change that he has perfected.
Cassidy led a discussion on problems with magic props. One problem is that many magic props don’t look like anything anyone actually uses anymore.
David Teeman showed a packet of playing cards to Ashlee and asked her to select one. He then showed that it was the only card that had a blue back. All the others had red backs.
Cassidy Smith performed a very nice production of four half dollars. He then performed a coin roll, a muscle pass, and a penetration of a coin through his hand.
Kevin Brasier passed around some regulation Smith & Wesson handcuffs. He had his daughter, Mollie place the handcuffs on him. He dipped his hands under the tablecloth very briefly and showed that he was no longer wearing the cuffs.
Lee Woodside