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Standing Up on Stage Volume 4: Feats of Skill and Danger by Scott Alexander
Dive into the art of performance with Standing Up on Stage – DVD Series, a master class in honing your act to perfection. Volume Four, Skill and Danger, focuses on how incorporating elements of skill and danger can dramatically enhance the mood, tone, and pacing of your performances.
What’s Inside?
Scott Alexander guides you through crucial aspects of performance enhancement:
- Musicality: Discover how to use music effectively to elevate your show and captivate your audience.
- Sound Systems: Gain insights into optimizing sound and playback systems for clear, impactful audio performance.
- Microphone Technique: Learn the nuances of using microphones to ensure your voice is heard loud and clear.
- Character Development: Explore the importance of sincerity, authenticity, vulnerability, and emotional hooks in creating memorable performances.
Featured Tricks
- Card Manipulation: Master visually stunning yet easy-to-learn card sequences performed live at Caesers Palace.
- Eggs and Glasses: Revive a classic Vaudeville act focusing on pure manipulation skills.
- Matches Melt: See Terry Seabrooke’s Cigarette in Coat transformed into a modern, family-friendly routine.
- Needle Through Arm: Execute this daunting illusion with Scott’s easy, deceivingly simple method, performed right under the audience’s gaze.
Unlock the secrets of effective showmanship with Scott Alexander’s Standing Up on Stage Volume 4. Learn to blend skill and danger for captivating performances using advanced techniques in music, sound, and illusion.
STANDING UP ON STAGE – DVD SERIES a complete master class on getting your act together
Volume Four – Skill and Danger
In this fourth of five volumes, Scott teaches you how adding elements of both skill and danger can effectively enhance the mood, tone and pacing of your show. In the Director’s Guide section, Scott discusses musicality and how to effectively use music in your show to enhance the audience’s enjoyment. He also covers sound and playback systems as well as microphone technique. In the Character Development chapter, he emphasizes the importance of sincerity, authenticity, vulnerability, and emotional hooks, and how to get these valuable feelings and emotions into your performances.
On this DVD, there are four examples of opening tricks described and explained in full detail, including:
CARD MANIPULATION
Learn highly visual yet easy-to-master manipulation sequences illustrated through Scott’s live performance at Caesars Palace in Vegas.
EGGS AND GLASSES
Straight from Emil Jarrow’s Vaudeville act, Scott treats this overlooked effect as a pure manipulation piece.
MATCHES MELT
Terry Seabrooke’s Cigarette in Coat gets a clever and politically correct update for a modern audience suitable for adult or family shows.
NEEDLE THROUGH ARM
Explaining how magicians create realistic illusions, Scott shares his easy and diabolical way to pull this unsettling act of danger off right in front of the spectator’s nose.
