Planning the Big Event

You and your classmates are going to put on a Magic Show. Such an event takes some planning and preparation. Here are some planning suggestions to help make your show a huge success.

The class as a whole should decide how the show will be presented and who will be invited. Then divide up into groups to carry out these various tasks:

1. Invitations: Create invitations to your show and distribute them to the people you wish to invite.
2. Costumes: Do you wish to have the performers and helpers wear costumes of some kind? If so, a group of students should decide what the costumes will be like and help to assemble them.
3. Staging: Where will the show be held? Help to set up the tables, materials, and other items that will be needed to put on the show.
4. Script Writers: Each performer should have a script to help inform the audience about the trick he or she will perform. Scripts should help to raise the interest of the audience and prepare them for a surprise. Scripts should also be written for students to explain how each trick works.
5. Performers: Everyone should perform one or more of the tricks from the unit links. Then decide which students will actually perform the tricks at the magic show. Performers, and any helpers needed, should practice the tricks. (The performer doing the Crystal Creation trick should do the trick a day ahead of time in order to have some crystals to show the audience.) Each performer should also practice reciting the lines from his or her script.
6. Wrap-Up: After each trick has been performed, a student other than the performer should explain how the trick worked.