Strivings, Mark: Before the Curtain Rises ©2000 Mark Strivings Softcover, comb-bound, 8.5x11", 32 pages

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Comments: A Treatise on Preshow Work. The Alpha Series Volume I.

Contents (from book ToC):

ii Acknowledgments
1 Definition Of Preshow & Introduction

5 Types Of Preshow Work - Overview
5 Type One: Direct Contact - Overview
6 Type Two: Indirect Contact - Overview
7 Direct Contact - Detail
9 Indirect Contact - Detail

14 Potential Pitfalls Of Preshow
14 Time (Or The Lack Thereof)
14 Spectators Talking
15 Preshow Volunteers Leaving

17 Factors In Making Preshow More Effective
17 Verbal Misdirection
20 Distance
20 Numbers Of Spectators Approached
21 Mixing Methods

22 Useful Devices For Preshow

24 The Use Of Preshow In Various Effects
24 ‘Multiple Outs’ Routines
25 As Part Of A Three-Part Prediction
26 Tossed Out Deck
27 Add-A-No
28 Psychic Yahtzee
28 Psychic Yahtzee 2
29 The Miracle Prediction

30 Some Parting Thoughts
31 Suggested Reading