Magical events

•	Kids Parties	•	Corporate & Trade Shows
•	Adult Parties	•	Mind Reading and Clairvoyance
•	School Shows	•	Bar and Restaurant Magic
•	Fundraisers	•	Close-up Magic

KIDS PARTIES:

Alonzo’s shows are customized to your child’s age and personality. For very young kids, say from 3-4 years old, everything is magic: a bell rings, you pick up the phone, and a human voice comes out of a plastic handle! For these kids, ordinary magic is not magical enough. So Alonzo makes things happen that contradict a child’s most common experiences, and at the same time make them laugh like crazy!

For older kids, Alonzo combines an ingenious blend of grown-up tricks and kid magic. But the result is the same: the kids are surprised, baffled and joyous.

Alonzo’s magic is centered on the kids themselves.They are actively involved in Alonzo’s shows, and the star is always the birthday boy or girl.

Alonzo’s priority is to tickle kids’ minds and senses and leave them with a sense of the wonder that is always there if we but take the time to look for it.

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ADULT PARTIES:

Alonzo's adult shows are designed to baffle and enchant intelligent adults who delight in interacting with a magician who is fun and relaxed yet challenging and mind-boggling. Whether it be a birthday party, just-for-fun cocktail party, office party, a grand finale for a dinner party, or a New Year's Eve or other holiday event, Alonzo's magic is a unique and unexpected experience that audiences will talk about long after the evening comes to a close.

Each effect in Alonzo's performance is quite different from all the others, so that folks will witness mysteries of all kinds: an audience member's signed dollar bill, or a freely chosen and signed card, disappears from her own hands and is found...in a lemon cut open by the spectator! Three coins from different countries appear, disappear and change places right under the audiences noses and in their very hands. Two ropes held separately by audience members are seen to magically link while remaining in the spectators' hands. A solid steel blade is passed through the wrists of a volunteer. A dove or rabbit vanishes into thin air. Alonzo arranges five ESP cards in an order known only to him, and when a volunteer freely arranges five similar cards as he wishes, it is discovered that the volunteer's arrangement has been caused, by Alonzo's mental influence alone, to exactly match Alonzo's arrangement.

Alonzo can perform his magic in one place, where your guests can either gather together to watch and participate, or come and go as they please, or he can stroll among small groups of guests and perform a different few tricks for each of them. Whatever your choice, you can be sure that all present will be dazzled, they will laugh and they won't be able to get the feats of this magician out of their minds.

Alonzo also also performs a broad range of mind reading and clairvoyance magic, and can, if you wish, perform an entire show of mentalism.

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SCHOOL SHOWS:

Alonzo has performed in school shows ranging from grade schools to the more sophisticated routines demanded by college and university students.

Alonzo can meet a broad spectrum of school needs, from pure entertainment to entertainment containing an important message about, for example, drugs or alcohol. Alonzo’s “message” shows are never preachy or finger-wagging. After all, the best way to get a message across is to have your audience laughing and having fun, not feeling bad about themselves.

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FUNDRAISERS:

We all know that there is one thing that is absolutely necessary in order to raise money for your organization, and that is to attract an audience. And nothing attracts an audience interested in contributing to a good cause and having an evening of good fun, than a form of entertainment that is rare, audience-involving, funny and hugely astonishing.

Everyone enjoys being surprised and amazed by witnessing real live magic. Alonzo’s fundraising shows involve his audience directly. Both individual members of the audience and the group as a whole participate in making Alonzo’s miracles happen. And they won’t be treated to the same old song and dance that many folks have seen a hundred times before. Many of Alonzo’s effects are original and entirely unexpected.

And Alonzo customizes his show to your project, so that the audience is simultaneously aware of the magic and of your organization or project’s work.

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ALONZO’S CORPORATE AND TRADE SHOW MAGIC:

Hospitality Suite Close-Up Shows
Through sparkling magic and zippy wit, Alonzo helps maintain a mood that is light and lively. Your present clients will be charmed, and future ones converted.

Stage Show Magic
Alonzo performs a forty-minute show for groups of usually 40 or more. In an auditorium or banquet room Alonzo will cause objects to vanish only to re-appear in the most unexpected places. He can push fluorescent bulbs through the body of an audience member, levitate a large red sphere, and read people’s minds and predict their free choices. This kind of show makes an excellent after-dinner treat.

Trade Show Magic
Every year exhibiting fees and the cost of floor space goes up, while attendance goes down. So you need to maximize the return on your trade show investment. Alonzo is keenly aware of your concern that your budget dollars not go to waste.

Alonzo helps generate leads and more sales for you with a customized show that underscores your company’s message and identifies your products and services. Prospective customers will stop, look, and listen as Alonzo’s performance makes your message more than just another commercial. People will remember and talk about your product and your “Magic Booth”. And this will generate the most effective marketing tool of all: word of mouth.

Company Shows
There is real magic waiting to be discovered in a company’s staff and employees as they laugh and play, and work together as a team. This potential can be made real by magic that involves your company’s folks in a morale-heightening presentation created specifically for them. Alonzo aims to create the atmosphere of an intimate family gathering which facilitates bonding among employees.

By studying your company’s history, key players, products/services and media coverage, Alonzo works with you to customize his magic: to encourage on-stage participation of significant company personnel and use inside jokes and information. By engaging members of the audience in spotlight performances, Alonzo makes them feel at home. This makes the audience feel and look good, which in turn makes you look good.

Alonzo’s show is not just mind-boggling magic, but it also becomes a way for your company’s people to contribute their own uniqueness to make the entire evening memorable long after the lights have gone down.

Alonzo’s company magic is ideal for conventions, sales meetings, awards banquets and cocktail parties.

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ALONZO’S MIND READING AND CLAIRVOYANCE SHOWS:

This kind of magic can be done in any of the situations and venues described above. The feats Alonzo performs are guaranteed to make your head spin and your jaw drop. He predicts a freely selected word from the current issue of a national magazine. A number of audience members merely think of a card and Alonzo names them all. An audience member with a cell phone calls anyone they choose, and asks them to select a number, and Alonzo predicts that number.

Two weeks before his show, Alonzo gives a small clear box to the sponsor of the show, who might be a restaurant owner, corporate executive, school principal or president, or simply the person in whose living room Alonzo is performing. The box contains a folded slip of paper. The show sponsor seals the box with a tape that he or she signs, so the box can’t be tampered with. The sponsor keeps the box until Alonzo’s performance, two weeks later. During this time neither the sponsor nor Alonzo ever touches the box again, even during the show. When the sponsor removes the slip from the box, it is seen to have been notarized two weeks earlier, and written on it are two or three predictions of today’s local newspaper headlines. The predictions are perfectly accurate!

Two weeks before his show, Alonzo mails a sealed envelope containing a prediction to the person who booked the show. That person brings the sealed envelope, which Alonzo has neither seen nor touched since mailing it, to Alonzo’s performance. During the performance, three audience members are each asked to write down a randomly selected number, and a fourth spectator adds them up. The sum is unknown to everyone except the fourth spectator. When the sealed envelope containing Alonzo’s prediction is opened by an audience member, the sum of the randomly selected numbers matches the prediction Alonzo made seven days earlier!

This kind of magic is in a class by itself, and entirely upsets the expectations of the audience – much to their bedazzled delight. Alonzo performs at least one mind reading effect in each of his performances, but he can easily do an entire show of ESP, mind reading and clairvoyance.

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BAR AND RESTAURANT MAGIC:

A unique way to draw attention to your bar and/or restaurant is to offer an unobtrusive but attention getting and entertaining mark of distinction: something fun that can be experienced at your establishment, something that sets your bar/restaurant apart. There are a number of ways you can use Alonzo’s magic to draw customers to your establishment:

•	Alonzo’s magic is ideally suited to special occasions when your party or banquet room hosts an occasion calling for entertainment. Whether you are hosting an awards ceremony, a reception, a bar mitzvah, birthday party or company event, thirty or forty minutes of magic and mind reading entertainment is the perfect closer for a special event.
•	You might designate one or two nights per week as “Magic Night!” with your “house magician”. Alonzo would perform either as a “table-hopper” or in a designated place in a series of shorter sets. In a bar or lounge, Alonzo can perform a trick or two at various locations along the bar, rotating and returning throughout the evening.
•	Customers waiting for a table can be entertained so that the wait seems much shorter than it is. Alonzo’s style is suited to the situation: he is engaging and entertaining, yet low-key and respectful of customers’ personal space.
•	Alonzo can stroll from table to table and entertain customers waiting for their food to arrive. He introduces himself and asks “Would you be interested in some magical entertainment while you wait for your food?” Or: “The management is providing entertainment this evening. Would you be interested in some magical entertainment for a couple of minutes while you wait for your food?” And Alonzo can tailor his routine to the time available before the food arrives and to the age of the customers.
	In this type of situation, customers are of course not under any pressure to see a trick or two, and the magic takes just a few minutes so that customers don’t feel intruded upon.
	Alonzo is always respectful of wait staff and does not compete with them for tips. His fee is normally paid by the management.

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CLOSE-UP MAGIC:

Close-Up Shows - Strolling or Stand-Up
When we are young, just about everything we experience is magic. As we grow older, logic and rationality replaces the magic we once experienced, and we lose our sense of how fascinating and wondrous the world can be. It’s not that the magic has left our lives. It’s just that we "outgrow" it and put on blinders to its presence. Alonzo removes those blinders and helps us to perceive again what we have come to ignore. He re-introduces us to magic in its most direct and mind-numbing form.

Entertaining small groups of people in an intimate setting involves more than just doing tricks – it requires an engaging personality, a love of having fun with your audience, and an ability to build rapport and interact with the audience in an intelligent, appropriate and witty manner.

Alonzo can either stroll from table to table, or group to group, or he can perform stand-up. He works dazzling wonders with everyday objects such as cards, coins, a lemon, ropes, or a borrowed ring. Objects actually change in the hands of the audience. The impact is strong because the magic happens to them, at their very own fingertips. Spectators actively participate in Alonzo’s performances. Just about everyone has a front-and-center seat. And a tone of relaxed fun and utter wonder is created for your entire event.

Formal Close-Up Shows
This kind of show is best for groups of 2-40 people. It is typically performed in someone’s home. Alonzo creates an atmosphere of ice-breaking mirth and amazement for all.

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