IMAGINARIUM

                                   

 MAGICIAN DAVID GOLDRAKE OPENING AT THE TROPICIANA

48 YEARS AGO TONIGHT...WE LANDED ON THE MOON ON THIS DAY...ON TIME...
NOT TONIGHT.....JUST ME....WHY SAY 700 AND START AT 730  ?

ANYWAY...RANDOM THOUGHTS AND REACTIONS TO TONIGHTS
MEDIA OPENER...

UPS AN DOWNS ...INS AND OUTS...

IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE WE HAD A BIG FIRST CLASS
MEDIA OPENING WITH PROMOS AND INVITATIONS WITH PRE SHOW
HYPE  AND FIRST
CLASS TREATMENT TO ALL.....WE GOT IT TONIGHT...I MISSED
IT AND I APPRECIATED IT...EVERONE WAS SWELL...

WHEN YOU ARE LATE YOU LOSE ONE POINT ON YOUR SCORE
FOR EVERY MINUTE LATE...SO THEY STARTED WITH A 75...
MAYBE MEDIA OPENING NIGHT AN EXCUSE...?
LOTS OF TALK AND BACKPATTING HERE...

FIRST CLASS MAGIC SHOW...

GOLDRAKE FROM LUXENBORG ALONG WITH HIS COUNTRYS ENTOURAGE
AND LOCAL TROPICANA HYPE...WHY NOT...

IT WAS 900 DEGREES IN THE THEATRE AND WITH 3 MINUTES TO GO
THEY TURNED ON THE A C.....?

BAD SOUND FOR THE OPENING AND IT DID NOT IMPROVE...

MAJOR CAGES...BOXES...PROPS AND MACHINERY....WELL DONE STUFF.

NICE LEVITATION....NICE ADAGIO AND ACROBATIC DANCERS...
FIRST CLASS...

LOTSA SMOKE FOR NO REASON...

PLENTY OF HOW DID HE DO THAT AND WHERE DID SHE COME FROMS...?

GREAT TAKE OFF ON THE HOUDINI WATER TORTURE TRICK...

TOO MANY AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION STYKES....WHICH I NEVER LIKE...
YOU CAN GET DUDS AND ONE GUY DISAPPEARED AND MISSED HALF THE
SHOW...

WE LIKED IT....NOT TOO PRICEY...

GOLDRAKE NOT AS FLUENT AND GLIB AS ROBIN WILLIAMS....

CONTINUITY A LITTLE LOOSE...

WE LIKED IT....

ANXIOUS TO SEE THIS IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND SEE
WHERE IT GOES...

THANKS TO THE TROPICANA FOR A BIG FINANCIAL COMMITMENT..

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