October, 1998

New Business:
For Stars ticket sales the club will have a contest. Sell 20 tickets and get a free pass to the Banquet. For every 10 tickets sold you get one chance at a $100 gift certificate to Mervyns.... just kidding homey, its for Williams Magic. That means 10 tickets gets you one draw , 20 gets you two draws etc... How can you not sell tickets? Performer Bios due at Nov. Meeting. Close-up Magicians who want to perform at Stars see Mike. We also need people to help clean-up afterwards- na na na don’t turn your heads, come pitch in an help ,your gonna get a free meal out of it.

GOOD OF THE ORDER :
OCTOBER 22nd - 24th (Thursday - Saturday) Tucsonan John Shryock will be a featured lecturer at The Workshop in the Kansas City area. John will be lecturing but the cool thing is he will be closing the evening show. In the line up are Mac King, Christopher Hart, Mike Caveney, with the Great Tommsoni . Johnny in the house!!

The Amazing Jonathan will be at Centennial Hall Wed. 28th info at Williams Magic.

Adrian Van Vactor will be touring in Australia, then on the Grand Princess, the biggest cruiseship in the world - and finally at the castle.

Bruce Martyn is currently doing magic promoting products in local supermarkets.

Tom Potter is acting in a play at the Serendipity theatre called Barnum.

Bill McRea is at the Reid Park Octoberfest and everywhere else just ask Jered and Adrian.

We welcome back Scott Wolf and Joe Sevits who by some case of temporary insanity had let their memberships slide. Welcome back.

Gaslight Show Mon Oct 19th
John and Mari were awesome as usual. The show featured just the two of them and there was not a dull moment in the 90 minutes they performed. John performed the magic that's landed him in Vegas and added a couple of new routines. His version of Tabbarys rope done to music was very nice, and John also debuted the swallowing razor blades. Cool. Mari blew the rest us all away with an awesome new dancing cane routine done to (how appropriate) X Files music. Great job !!!

Next Meeting:
Monday Nov. 2 nd 7:30 pm
Hotel Park Sheraton
5151 E. Grant Rd.
Board Meeting 6:30

FUTURE MONTHLY THEMES
Nov. Turkey Magic
Dec. White Elephant Magic
Jan. Banquet- Installations

Notes from the Prez:
The time is now!!! That's right, Stars of Magic '98 is just about here. We've had some tremendous breaks as far as publicity goes this year. We are being covered by Channel 13 news a few days before Stars with Joe DuPerry and John Shryock interviews. The William's Boys, Norm and Myself are going live on KTKT 990 Talk Radio on Nov. 6th and we have possible interest from 93.7 KRQ. In addition to that, we have a special ticket deal worked out for Big Brothers and Big Sisters and we are offering Group Ticket Discounts for youth groups 20 or more, just $5.00 each for the matinee show.

Much thanks to those that helped out at the Park Mall Promo for Stars, it was a big success. Thanks goes out to Bruce Martyn for Contacting the Mall and to Bruce M., Bruce S., Norm, Jim Davidson, Scott Wolf, Chris Lyon, Jered, Ken, Don Scott, Bill McRea, Greg Chmara, Stuart, Ed Oschmann, Tony Lupinacci and anyone else I might have missed for coming out and supporting the effort. It was a real fun time and we handed out tons of Stars flyers.

Just a reminder to all performers, your Bios are due at the Nov. meeting, no exceptions! And to all the cast and crew, be advised that our director might want to call a meeting before Stars to go over all the last minute details. Last but not least in any sense, we need every member to sell, sell, sell tickets!!!!!

Yours in Magic,
Michael DeSchalit