Childrens Competition - 23 Nov 2006

12 January 2007

Childrens night, the one night each year where adults are allowed to mentally recess to the age of childhood (some more convincignly than others, you know who you are ;-) )

Paul Bromley started this eveing off with four coloured silks joining together as one and then separating again! He then brought out his magic stamp book and performed a "Magic Colouring Book" effect. The helpers were allowed to keep some stamps and all got "Official Magician Helpers" stickers. In the last seconds he made some ingredients transform in to a large sponge (not the edible kind) birthday cake.

Andy Hart was second up to tame the crowd of demanding children. He performed a petshop trick where a very scary snake got up to all kinds of mischief. His next trick was an appearing bunny. The live rabbit appeared out of little house after I had to wave ever-increasingly sized wands over the hutch. The final wand 8ft tall!!!

The final performer was David Pattenden. He kicked off with professor's nightmare followed by; spooky hank routine, silk routine, egg bag routine, the colouring in of a clown, the magic colouring book and finished with a rope suspension! All of this inside 15 minutes!

The votes were taken in and after a very closely fought contest, Andy Hart was announced the winner! Congratulations to Andy Hart!

Performing for adults pretending to be children is much more difficult than it seems, so once again I would like to congratulate all three performers on their outstanding performances.

AC

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