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Filmed in front of a live audience in Lake Tahoe, these three DVDs show a comedy magic master at work. You then get the inner workings of the magic in Michael Finney’s repertoire; the tricks that made him a star. And, though you’ll learn the secrets behind the tricks, there’s much more here than that.

You’ll learn the real secrets of what makes magic entertaining to real-life audiences and even if you choose not to perform these specific pieces, the information that Michael so generously shares has the power to transform and empower the magic you already do.

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OBLIVION is the most incredible floating effect your spectators will ever witness.

A borrowed, signed coin hovers between your hands, completely under your control. Your hand moves over and above the floating, spinning coin, proving that there is no means of support.

AND THEN! IT DROPS!

It hovers millimeters from the floor before it takes off once again, travelling vertically for five feet, back into your waiting hand. The signed coin is handed back to the spectator and you are totally

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Silly Billy Clown performs a highly interactive comedy magic show in which the children laugh from his very first words to the end of the show. Silly Billy performs magic, but he is actually a comedian for kids, using the magic as the medium for the comedy. Parents tell him that they have never seen their child laugh so hard. He appeals to all children, including the very young, as well as adults. To children, Silly Billy is very silly, and occasionally even mischievous. Adults like him for his sharp, intelligent wit.

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The 1991 FISM gold-medal winning act of Jean-Pierre Vallarino, ‘Champagne.’ More recently, one may have caught Vallarino on the World’s Greatest Magic television show performing his exquisite manipulation act done close up. Watching Vallarino is like watching a ballet of the hands. This may be the most important thing the viewer can take from this video – the beauty and importance of carefully choreographing your actions and hand movements. Vallarino focuses his close-up ballet on cards, coins, and champagne glasses which are produced along the way.

The act consists of three parts. The first opens with a stunning change of a card to a coin, a one coin sequence, change of the coin to a jumbo coin, change of the jumbo coin to a bill, and the change

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BEYOND STREET MAGIC!
FILMED LIVE ON LOCATION AT BURNING MAN AND LAKE TAHOE!

The middle of the Nevada desert. Four hundred square miles of nothing. Not even streets. Just 50,000 people attending the world’s largest art festival. It’s Survival Magic and there are no spectators, only participants in the most extreme conditions imaginable. Welcome to Burning Man and Magic at the Edge! Since the dawn of time, magicians have sought inspiration in the most

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