Tenace, Richard L.: Stage Craft For Magicians ©2009 Richard L. Tenace eBook, 121 pages Available from Lybrary.com

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Comments: "Magic is a performance art. If you want to make your living performing magic then there is no way around this subject."

Contents (courtesy scintnl, magicbooks.be):

4 Acknowledgements:
5 Introduction
6 Contents
9 Chapter One: The Base Character Revisted
11 Chapter Two: Scripting Dialoge And Banning The Word “Patter”
16 Chapter Three: What Do You Do For A Living?
19 Soloquy #1: The Energy And Time We Waste On Stupid Things
21 Chapter Four: As A Man Thinketh So Is He
24 Chapter Five: Word Play And Bret Hart
27 Chapter Six: A Lack Of Character
29 Chapter Seven: Telling Jokes Is No Laughing Matter
32 Soloquy #2: Letters…I Get Letters
34 Chapter Eight: So You Want To Be A Magician?
37 Soloquy #3: 3 Random Thoughts
40 Chapter Nine: Sleight Fright (Or How To Fight Performance Anxiety)
44 Chapter Ten: And Now For My Next Trick
46 Solioquy #4: How Real Should We Be?
49 Chapter Eleven: Get To Know Me Before You Kiss Me
51 Chapter Twelve: What’s In A Name?
53 Solioquy #5: Crisis Of Faith
55 Solioquy #6: Can A Trick Be Too Strong
57 Solioquy #7: The Evolution Of A Magician
59 Chapter Thirteen: All That Jazz
62 Chapter Fourteen: Becoming Bullish
65 Chapter Fifteen: Got Game?
68 Chapter Sixteen: Are You Looking At Me?
71 Soloquy #8: A Customer Symphony In Two Parts
76 Chapter Seventeen: Stage Etiquette: Just Call Me Mr. Manners
79 Chapter Eighteen: The Ten Commandments Of Performing Etiquette
82 Soliquy #9: The Best Gift Of All
83 Chapter Nineteen: Wiping The Egg Off Our Face
86 Chapter Twenty: A Close Up Kind Of Actor
88 Chapter Twenty-One: Making Magic Modern
90 Chapter Twenty-Two: It's The Little Things That Matter
92 Soloquy #10: Now Wait A Minute! Or The Dangers Of Being A Selfish Performer
95 Chapter Twenty-Three: The Center Of Attention
98 Chapter Twenty-Four: New Beginnings And Old Perceptions
100 Chapter Twenty-Five: Brain Farts And The Magician
102 Soloquy #11: Jump Starting Creativity
104 Soloquy #12: If You're On Too Much You'll Tick People Off
106 Chapter Twenty-Six: Getting Off Track
108 Soloquy #13: Who Ya Gonna Trust?
111 Chapter Twenty-Seven: Emotion Heart And Performance
113 Soloquy #14: More Than Talent
115 Soloquy #15: A Jack Of All Trades
119 Chapter Twenty-Eight: Putting It All Together
121 Final Words