I have a confession to make: I have always loved magic. My earliest
memories of magicians and the magic they perform come from watching
The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights and Johnny Carson's Tonight Show
anytime I could talk my way into staying up late. At the age of six or seven
I received my first magic set, a rather simple affair as I recall. But the
contents of that box opened up a whole new world, a world that would
take its place along side GI Joe, Matchbox Cars, and Hot Wheels.
Over time GI Joe and Hot Wheels transformed themselves from toys
scattered around the floor into collectibles safely stored away on a shelf.
However, my interest in magic remained strong. Uncle Maurice supplied me
with books on card magic, my first Svengali Deck, and other items including
the classic Nickels to Dimes, all of which I still have in my collection. I loved
reading magic books and the biographies of magicians from the early to mid
1900's. Their stories of traveling from city to city with trunks and crates of
magical paraphernalia, entertaining thousands of people in grand old
theaters on the vaudeville circuit captured my imagination.
In spite of my love for the magical arts, becoming a professional magician
never entered into my mind. I was cursed, it seemed, with an
overwhelming sense of practicality and pulling rabbits from hats had a very
low practicality quotient indeed--at least in my mind.
So when the time came, it was off to college to earn a degree in business.
After that, a 20 year career in banking. John Kenneth Galbreath once said
that "banking is a career from which no one ever fully recovers." I think
he was right. Once this stark reality set in I decided that it was time to toss
caution to the wind, say goodbye to my personal demon of practicality, and
embrace the popular advice of the day: do one thing that you really love
and do it as well as possibly you can.
So here I am , many years after my first encounter with those TV
magicians, doing my best to connect with audiences using the mysterious
art of magical entertainment. Thanks for stopping by!
John Weaver
memories of magicians and the magic they perform come from watching
The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights and Johnny Carson's Tonight Show
anytime I could talk my way into staying up late. At the age of six or seven
I received my first magic set, a rather simple affair as I recall. But the
contents of that box opened up a whole new world, a world that would
take its place along side GI Joe, Matchbox Cars, and Hot Wheels.
Over time GI Joe and Hot Wheels transformed themselves from toys
scattered around the floor into collectibles safely stored away on a shelf.
However, my interest in magic remained strong. Uncle Maurice supplied me
with books on card magic, my first Svengali Deck, and other items including
the classic Nickels to Dimes, all of which I still have in my collection. I loved
reading magic books and the biographies of magicians from the early to mid
1900's. Their stories of traveling from city to city with trunks and crates of
magical paraphernalia, entertaining thousands of people in grand old
theaters on the vaudeville circuit captured my imagination.
In spite of my love for the magical arts, becoming a professional magician
never entered into my mind. I was cursed, it seemed, with an
overwhelming sense of practicality and pulling rabbits from hats had a very
low practicality quotient indeed--at least in my mind.
So when the time came, it was off to college to earn a degree in business.
After that, a 20 year career in banking. John Kenneth Galbreath once said
that "banking is a career from which no one ever fully recovers." I think
he was right. Once this stark reality set in I decided that it was time to toss
caution to the wind, say goodbye to my personal demon of practicality, and
embrace the popular advice of the day: do one thing that you really love
and do it as well as possibly you can.
So here I am , many years after my first encounter with those TV
magicians, doing my best to connect with audiences using the mysterious
art of magical entertainment. Thanks for stopping by!
John Weaver
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"Magic...hocus pocus, abracadabra, rabbits out of hats, exists only
in the imagination. That fact, more than any other is what makes
a magic performance amazing."
John Weaver
in the imagination. That fact, more than any other is what makes
a magic performance amazing."
John Weaver
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