Stage Illusion

Bed of Death (aka Table of Death)
Designer:
Jan Rouven, Mathias Fischedick, Frank Alfter
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Short Description:

The magician lies on a table under several hanging swords. An assistant chooses strings tied to the swords. Each string drops a different sword and all swords will miss the magician’s body except for one which will plunge through his chest. The assistant chooses all the safe swords and the magician is spared.

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Beside Yourself
Designer:
Peter Loughran
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In this illusion, a drawing comes to life. It’s a 21st century sawing-in-half illusion without assistants or boxes.

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Bimbo (aka Disassembled Girl)
Designer:
Franz Harary
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Short Description:

The assistant is systematically taken apart into seven pieces. Each piece remains alive and active throughout the routine.

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Bits and Pieces
Designer:
Jim Steinmeyer
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The assistant climbs into a box. The box is divided into 5 pieces by moving pieces from the top of the structure to the bottom. The assistant then reappears in the new location completely unharmed.

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Bo Staff
Designer:
Jim Steinmeyer
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An assistant enters a box, is compressed inside the box, and emerges having changed into a different assistant.

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Burned Alive
Designer:
Franz Harary
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The magician is burned alive only to reappear at center stage in a wall of flames

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Carta Sub Trunk (aka Future Trunk)
Designer:
Tim Clothier and Paolo Carta
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Short Description:

Unique sub trunk/blammo box combo routine with additional switch and reappearance of original assistant.

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Cata-Poultry
Designer:
Tim Clothier
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Cata-Poultry is a catapult to launch duck or similar sized animal into a cage. Similar to the duck cannon but with a mechanical catapult device.

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Cross Culture
Designer:
Franz Harary
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Short Description:

Two assistants have the top half of their bodies switch places while keeping their bottom halves in place

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Crystal Sawing in Half
Designer:
Les Arnold
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Short Description:

An assistant is cut in two inside of a clear box so that the audience can see her head, torso, legs, and feet almost the entire time.

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