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McBride Magic Museletter

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CREDIT: MCBRIDE MAGIC

Dear Friends:

Our first Museletter of the new year is from Kat Rettke. If you’ve attended Magic & Meaning, you’ve certainly met Kat. If you’ve attended one of our other events, you’ve received our 30-day-out and 10-day-out letters from her, or communicated with her about your registrations. While not a regular performer of magic herself, Kat has been an avid fan and student of magic for many years. She has become an invaluable and much-loved member of our team at the McBride Magic & Mystery School. I know you’ll enjoy her thoughts below.

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The Best Magic Shows in The DMV To Bring in The New Year

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Equinox Restaurant Presents Savino’s Magic

Enjoy dinner by Chef Todd Gray and a magical performance from Illusionist Savino Recine!

This New Year’s Eve promises to be a thrilling evening full of delicious food, magic, sleight of hand, and predictions for 2020!

Chef Todd Gray welcomes magician and mentalist extraordinaire Savino Recine. Chef Gray and his team have prepared a multi-course celebration menu with beverage pairings.

Savino will perform his conjurings and illusions during dinner from 8:30pm until midnight.

Four or six-course menus (vegan and traditional options) are available, priced separately.  Order tickets here.

 

Dinner and Magic at The Brixton with Rahaan Jackson

 

$25. Happy hour pricing. NYE Menu. Champagne toast.

DC’s best DJs AND special performances from Rahaan the Magician throughout the evening.

It’s gonna be a great night!

 

 

 

For brunch enjoy some daytime magic with Rahaan Jackson at Local 16.

 

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My Magic Newsletter, August 2019 – Larry Hass

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 Dear Friends in Magic,

Welcome to the August issue of my magic newsletter! It comes out on the second Sunday of every other month. And I always start with…

A BIG IDEA
As the Dean of the McBride Magic & Mystery School, I am very lucky to see a lot of magic performed live. By our students, yes, and by magicians all over, because I’m often in cities or at conventions where shows and acts are playing.

I am delighted there is so much astonishing magic being performed today, by many talented women and men. It truly is a new golden age of magic. Even so, I sometimes see an act with warts and blemishes that keep it from being all it might be or that damage the public perception of magic.

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Ten Ways to Become Famous in Magic – Credit: Jeff McBride

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TEN WAYS TO BECOME FAMOUS IN MAGIC

Ok, the title of this article SHOULD read “How to be a Success in Magic,” but I think people often confuse the two! Take the following steps, and hopefully, you will become both famous and successful!

  1.    Do 1,000 shows!

That is what Lance Burton says it takes to become a fine magician. After 1,000 shows, the audience and your director (yes, get a director) will have helped you to shape your show into world class entertainment. Lance Burton has done 25,000 shows and Copperfield has done 30,000. How many have you done? So, when you finish reading this, go do some shows! Don’t expect to be able to “become a magic legend” if you don’t have a fantastic act!

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Build Workshops, Not Laboratories

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Build Workshops, Not Laboratories 

Mozart pisses me off…
—Billy Joel

Innovating Innovation Chapter 3One of the late twentieth century’s greatest musical performers, composers, and songwriters admits openly that his own creativity came earlier in life and flowed forth in fits and starts, with titanic phases of prolific originality and, since his 1993 release of his last album, River of Dreams, far less frequent bursts of new songs.

Born on May 9, 1949, and raised in blue-collar Hicksville, Long Island, Billy Joel began taking piano lessons at the age of four. Soon, he became less interested in reading other people’s musical notes or even in learning how to read music at all. He would become a six-time Grammy Award winner, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a 2013 Kennedy Center Honoree. He would sell more than 150 million records worldwide. And he began by improvising minor changes in works by the likes of Schubert and Brahms, workshopping his own versions of such masters.

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Stop Being a Punchline

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Stop Being a Punchline

As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.
—Loser of multiple US elections

Six feet, four inches tall, gangly, but hunched now over his desk as he pens eighty-six meticulously written pages in fulfillment of his duties spelled out in Article II, section 3, of the Constitution of the United States of America. Nine hundred twenty-seven days before, he wrested his own party’s nomination from three better-known and more privileged rivals—William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates—and began to change one of the great losing streaks in American politics. Depending on how you count, he had lost three or five or, some even argue, as many eight elections before rising to the highest office in the land.

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MANGO PUBLISHING ANNOUNCES PUBLICATION OF INNOVATING INNOVATION

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Innovating Innovation BookCoral Gables, Florida (April 16, 2019): Mango Publishing Group announced today the publication of INNOVATING INNOVATION: Leadership Tools to Make Revolutionary Change Happen for You and Your Business by best-selling author, renowned corporate and  political  strategist, and keynote speaker David Morey.  The book’s foreword was written by Jerry Wind, the Lauder Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School,  who  calls  it: “The new primer for how to win.”

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Why Is the One Percent So Obsessed With Magic?

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Please find at the link below an article on our friend, New York magician Steve Cohen. Not only do we highly recommend Steve’s Chamber Magic show when you’re in New York City, but notice, too, the true magic of finding your brand and branding yourself, your point of difference, and what you stand for above all! Enjoy the magic.

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Happy New Year from Washington Magic!

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2019 . . . a year for more and more magic!

First, we’re so proud of the amazing reviews of our show including this most recent one from DC Theater Scene:

Second, we’re releasing our early dates for 2019 at the amazing Arts Club of Washington. Tickets are already selling—and our first special show is already sold out. Please go to www.washingtonmagic.com to reserve your tickets . . . every show is different with different magical performers and different experiences.

January 24th Thursday 6:30 p.m.  Arts Club Members Only—SOLD OUT
February 15th Friday 6:30 p.m. doors open, dinner, close-up, show begins at 8:00 p.m.

GENERAL SEATING

FRONT ROWS
March 15th Friday 6:30 p.m. doors open, dinner, close-up, show begins at 8:00 p.m.

GENERAL SEATING

FRONT ROWS
May 31st Friday 6:30 p.m. doors open, dinner, close-up, show begins at 8:00 p.m.

GENERAL SEATING

FRONT ROWS
June 14th Friday 6:30 p.m. doors open, dinner, close-up, show begins at 8:00 p.m.

GENERAL SEATING

FRONT ROWS
July 13th Saturday 6:30 p.m. doors open, dinner, close-up, show begins at 8:00 p.m.

GENERAL SEATING

FRONT ROWS

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