How does an act get to be good?
Posted on September 6th, 2008 by John
THERE ARE MANY VERSIONS AROUND but in a recent tv interview Groucho Marx of the famed Marx Brothers summed it up very succinctly.
When asked how they became a great act with superb timing, funny material and sight bits he said ” Well, way back we did thirteen shows a day. If a gag went well we kept it in, if it didn’t work we threw it out”
Apply that to magic – do as many shows as you can and keeping honing your material. That’s how in the days of variety,magicians who worked regularly created their so smooth acts.
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