I WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE DAYS OF VARIETY from the stages of the music halls in and around London. It is a genre that died at the hands of television and with it the bills that included a menu of singers, dancers, comedians, speciality acts, magicians and the like that compounded into the title – variety. [...]
Posted on September 15th, 2008 by John
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I’VE ALWAYS BEEN AN ADVOCATE of working an act regularly until it goes like clockwork so that all your energy goes into the presentation. Many professionals have worked this way – Eddie Tulloch the king of the trade shows in the U.S. I’m told performed all his life with just a pack of cards, a pack of [...]
Posted on August 17th, 2008 by John
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A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE, MICHAEL BAILEY, once told me that the first contract he secured when he turned full time professional was a booking for a tour of hotels in South Africa. Working in cabaret at floor level he found that many of the audience at the back could not easily see his presentation, [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2008 by John
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