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Fred Becker - Entertainingat Sea

Columnist: Fred Becker Entertaining at Sea Occasionally, I hear magicians speak poorly about those that work on cruise ships. This attitude surprises me. The fact is, much of our kind of show business has moved out to sea. The cruise industry continues to grow, with new fully equipped showrooms that need entertainment nightly. Nearly all ships use some kind of variety entertainment on each cruise. I would guess t...
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Fred Becker - First Cruise

Columnist: Fred Becker In my last article I told you how my first cruise job came about and told you about my first night on the ship. Things went smoother once I got into the swing of things. However, on this first job I was not considered a headline entertainer. I was Cruise Staff/Entertainer. And the cruise staff position definitely came first in the eyes of the company. When I was contacted for the job, I ...
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Fred Becker - Neil Foster's Egg On Fan

Columnist: Fred Becker If you do a stage act or a parlor type performance I encourage you to look at the Egg on Fan. It is a very artistic effect and can fit in well with a manipulation performance or as and interlude in a less formal presentation. Effect You tear the corner out of a folded piece of paper. The paper is opened to show an oblong shape torn out. The piece that is torn is bounced on an open fan. ...
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Fred Becker - The Embarrassed Deck

Columnist: Fred Becker I love lecture notes. I have a thing for them. I always buy lecture notes. I buy notes for lectures that I haven’t even attended. As you might imagine, this drives my wife the accountant absolutely nuts. I like reading notes for a lecture that I haven’t seen because it forces me to fill in the blanks. Lecture notes are usually fairly sketchy accounts, designed only to jog your memory o...
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Fred Becker - The Fortuneteller Card

Columnist: Fred Becker Gary Ouellet put out a fantastic trick, “Finger on the Card” through the Camirand Academy sometime in the early 1980s. I’m unsure of the exact year because my copy carries no copyright (which is strange because of Mr. Ouellet’s lawyerly profession at the time). Finger on the Card has been one of my favorite routines since 1984 when I first learned it. It is so powerful, that I now reser...
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