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From: hypersang
Date: Tue May 6, 2003 1:46am
Subject: Re: Live show
Hi Dale,
Yes I agree that insulting the audience/spectator isn't a good thing!
I'm pretty sure he mentioned that in his book Absolute Magic too.
After watching the Devil's Picturebook I came to the conclusion that
Peter Clifford looks like my boss - he'll be going to the Croydon
show so I'll ask Derren if he agrees.
Would be funny to see Andy Nyman lose his watch on Mind Control 1 if
the girl picked the correct envelope.
See... It's not just Dale who knows too much :)
Sang
--- In a previous message, dale_kingstons_world_of_art
wrote:
> Okay, so I have now seen the live show in its current incarnation.
>
> Some things that I observed: Audience insult humour is not good,
> Derren. You like to present yourself as a charming, eccentric
> English gentleman so the line about the person in the front row
> looking like a tramp is really not condusive to that. It's a cheap
> laugh and a cringe-inducing moment.
>
> Peter Clifford and Andy Nyman are credited on the front of the
> programme. Very interesting! Mr. Nyman was one of the ones who
> didn't want to be credited on the first Mind Control Special. He
was
> listed in the credits at the end as "A.N." but I suppose that as
the
> whole Derren thing has been more successful than anyone imagined,
he
> doesn't mind receiving the credit that he is rightfully due.
>
> I also wonder if Derren worries about fans seeing the same show a
> couple of times and sussing out a few things. The opening effect is
> the same one that was used at the Tobacco factory last year and
> let's face it, uses a principle that is likely to be deduced quite
> quickly by any one seeing the show more than once. Even the most
> blinkered "NLP practioner" would he hard pressed to disprove that
it
> is a conjuring trick.
