Originally appeared in "Performing for Children in a Magically Delightful Manner" by Duane Laflin (Currently Out-Of-Print) EFFECT: Four ropes, each a different color, are tied together. When wrapped around the magician’s hand, they become one long rope. NEEDED: A commercially avialable product known as "The Red, Yellow, Black and White Rope Trick" PRESENTATION: "Who is
By Duane Laflin Originally published in the August 2013 issue of Grand Magic Magazine Buy the entire issue here During our show season this summer something came up that made me realize how important and how challenging it is to control the chemistry of a show. Over the span of June through July, several magician
Originally appeared in "Laflin Lecture 2004: Lecture Notes" by Duane Laflin (Out of Print) WHAT HAPPENS? A spectator is asked to select one of five boxes. After the box is selected, the magician announces that he will make a handkerchief vanish and invisibly fly through the air and into the chosen box. A handkerchief is
Originally appeared in "Christmas Magic" by Duane Laflin This month we are excited to feature a number of routines that were originally published a a few years ago for a lecture on Christmas routines by Duane Laflin. That publication is now out of print... but we dug into our files and found those routines so