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Used by many top pros over the years, this outstanding pseudo hypnotic act utilizes cold cueing to encourage subjects on stage to follow your commands without genuine hypnosis. Even so, your audience will credit you with amazing hypnotic powers and talk about this routine long after your show is over. After putting your subjects from the audience into a "trance," you clap your hands and one of them falls down. You help him up and another one falls. Then, another helper's hand sticks to the floor, while still another cannot close his mouth. These hilarious escapades go on for a period with the laughter steadily building as the act progresses. For a climax, you clap your hands one final time and all of your hypnotic subjects fall helplessly into a pile on the floor! This manuscript covers everything you need to know to successfully present this highly entertaining and thoroughly baffling routine. 6 pages.
Note: In the great illusionist John Calvert's lecture notes, he states that this routine was written after the author attended one of his shows. And as anyone who has witnessed him perform can attest, John Calvert is living proof of the incredible audience impact of this material in the hands of a master showman. In a show filled with brilliant magic, manipulation and stage illusions, his hypnotic routine is the thing many people recall afterward!
