Assembly News
Meeting Minutes: April 2010
Randy Denham our VP opened our April meeting. He announced the winners from our First Kansas City Magic Competition. In Close-Up Dale "Huff-Daddy" Huffman and Rod "Dr Dumpe" Sipe tied for first place. Huff-Daddy was really on fire that day cause he had taken the first place in the stage contest too. Duane "The Bird Man" Fields took home the People’s Choice award. We had about 65 people show up for the contest. Many thanks to Julie "Hillary’s #1 Fan" Clark for putting on a great show.
Next was the announcement of upcoming lectures. Scheduled so far is Dan "too tall" Fleshman and Andy "but I’m from Illinois " Dallas. Also some of our very own members are going to be showcased at the Magic Mania convention May 7th and 8th in Des Moines Iowa. They will be performing the "lite" version of the VooDoo review along with Bryan "BB" Brushwood and Steve "Tiny Bubbles" Daly.
For our teach a trick we had 2 instructors. First was our own "Doctor" Phil King. Who started off with the "Will the Cards Match" trick. Shaun "better late than never" Rivera, did a 4 King traveling trick. It was " King sized travelers" by Gregory Wilson, which is based on Dai "The Professor" Vernon’s traveler trick. We had a drawing for the David Blaine book "Mysterious Stranger" was won by Tim "Hey don’t I know you" Zager. We also had a drawing for a pair of Ren Fest VIP winner which was Mike "the new guy" Debrot. Congratulations to our winners.
Daniel "Mooncalf" Jackson started the competition by doing a card trick for his close up routine. Randy "RD" Denham did a money-changing trick. Stage Performances was by led by Rod Sipe and he did a locked box and 5 keys. Four didn’t open the lock but only 1 did. All the keys went into the box and the freely selected key was the only one that opened the box. Duane Roberts did a calendar and playing card where the freely selected card showed up on the freely selected day. Daniel Jackson did cups and balls. For the open performances Gene Turner the friendly pickpocket did his famous watch switch on Mike Debrot. Now Mike knows to keep his eye on his jewelry when Gene’s around. Then Phil King did "Sneak a Peek". Gene shared some very practical advice for performers. Carrying around props that some people in the audience may not have. Coat and tie supplied when performing for audience where NO ONE was dressed in a coat and tie. The winners of the contest were Close up Randy Denham. Stage went to Rod Sipe.
Faithfully submitted,
Mike Melito
