The Final Program

We’ll comment this in more detail later, but here’s order of events:

Three numbers called from the audience predicted on a slip of paper.

Short Intro

Zener Board (pick one of four symbols, predicted)

Short Seque

Silent Running (Ben Harris with special handling by Devon Knight)

Zener PATEO Prediction (face down deck, card chosen unseen, matched prediction)

One out of Six (Face down Zener cards, select one, all others are matched different)

Hypnotic Regression meets Astral Projection (ID out in the open)

Stones Cry Out (three cards selected, revealed)

Hands Off ACCAN (Ms.A holds cards, calls number, Ms.B calls card)

Q&A (Answer questions before they’re read)

Remote Drawing (Draw and name a thought of picture)

A couple of last minute cuts were:

Predicted card in envelope

Four Suits and a Sharpie

These will be re-added later, after some refining.

Setting Up

Got to the restaurant about 6pm and started setting up the room, shoving tables around and stacking chairs.  Final layout was U-shaped, fives tables along each leg of the U, two tables at the base.  Guests were seated outside the U, leaving a nice clear “runway” down the center for me.  I had a prop table above the top of the U, which held my four white boards propped on easels, the glass bowl for the Q&A papers, the Zener Board, and some other things.

Some of the first orders of business were sticking an envelope under one of the chairs, setting the cards in position (actually used three decks, switched in and out as needed), and marking final “predictions” wherever they needed to go.

Some guests arrived early, and my wife chatted and kept them entertained until I was ready to greet them properly.

At 7pm most guests had arrived, and all the props were in order.  I called everyone’s attention and we prayed a blessing over the tables, and released them to go grab some food.

SHOWTIME!

Friday, March 4^th, 2011 at 7pm was SHOWTIME!!!

Got so focused on the event that the blog never got updated.  Will try to get everything current over the next few posts.