Stage Competition - 18 Feb 2007

13 April 2007

In spite of the inclement weather 15 hardy souls attended Head Quarters for this years? Stage Competition.

The usual announcements preceded the Competition and this time included the following:-
• A request for a volunteer to stand for Treasurer,
• Committee Members
• Someone to help with the raffle for this year's Dinner.

There were three entrants for the Competition, all of which were very entertaining. I do not know the name of all the tricks used, perhaps if I attended more often I would.

Andy Jeffrey was first up. He performed an interesting act using magic and numbers (and me). He opened with a coin routine accurately predicting the number of coins I held in my hand. He followed this with a reminder of Christmas where his 'stooge' selected useless presents from the bags available and could have won £100 but didn't.

Tall and Small followed. Small played the inner self of Tall, a magician suddenly thrust in front of an audience and urged to perform. An amusing commentary on how Tall was thinking was given throughout. A number of tricks were used including silk to cane and de-lite. The act finished with a rather gruesome hand thru stomach.

Matt Parro completed the evening. Opening with a card transposition, he performed a number of card routines and some mentalism. The one that really struck me was where the value of a selected card appeared on Matt's arm. Matt finished with two selected cards ending up back in the deck in their suits and the suits in card order.

The voting was very close and the winner by a narrow margin was Andy Jeffrey.

Well done to all who took part you certainly entertained me and congratulations Andy.

Dave Gingell

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