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Magician Performing at Disneyland Now

Postby Richard Kaufman » September 14th, 2014, 1:27 am

Disney has added a magician to the Big Thunder BBQ area for Halloween:
http://disneygeek.com/disneyland/pictur ... lloween/56
Anyone recognize him?
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Re: Magician Performing at Disneyland Now

Postby Q. Kumber » September 14th, 2014, 2:54 am

I absolutely hate the tired, trite and cliched opening lines, "How is everyone today? Are you all having a fantastic time?"

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Re: Magician Performing at Disneyland Now

Postby Rick Ruhl » September 14th, 2014, 7:26 am

He's introduced as Jeff Farmer... Nothing on Google about him...wonder he's an actor..

He does Walters ladder lev.. So someone has some bucks..

Full video of the act here..

http://youtu.be/qmJHB7FWeK4

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Re: Magician Performing at Disneyland Now

Postby CraigMitchell » September 14th, 2014, 9:54 am

No disrespect to the performer - but by Disney standards this comes across as a pretty low budget piece of entertainment ...

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Re: Magician Performing at Disneyland Now

Postby Carl Skenes » September 14th, 2014, 10:06 am

The magician's name is actually Jeff Parmer.
http://www.greatmagic.com/Great_Magic/Welcome.html

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Re: Magician Performing at Disneyland Now

Postby JFox » September 15th, 2014, 8:10 pm

In the full length YouTube video of Jeff's act (posted above)...the audience volunteer apparently had second thoughts about "floating" via the ladder suspension...because a generic Disney costumed character came on stage and did the illusion instead, with Jeff.

(Jeff is heard to comment to the original girl in the audience with something like: 'Perhaps you can do it another time, once you see it now').

That video is edited, so we can't see everything that happened, but it just shows that you'd better have a "Plan B" in case a volunteer acts up on stage, or simply refuses to do what you had in mind.

Considering that this is a family daytime audience at Disneyland, I think that Jeff Parmer did a fine performance.

I'm sure its not easy to pass an audition for Disney, as they have seen it all..and they know what does and doesn't work for their parks.

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Re: Magician Performing at Disneyland Now

Postby Jonathan Townsend » September 15th, 2014, 8:40 pm

Carl Skenes wrote:The magician's name is actually Jeff Parmer.
http://www.greatmagic.com/Great_Magic/Welcome.html


anyone else get that loud music on the video with lyrics "i'm driving like i'm ????? just got my license back..." - and odd colored triangle icon?

in the words of the immortal Bart - "I didn't do it".
Mundus vult decipi -per Caleb Carr's story Killing Time

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Re: Magician Performing at Disneyland Now

Postby Rick Ruhl » September 15th, 2014, 8:43 pm

Poor kid got scared..

Ive found that having Erin helping me to calm a volunteer really helps. We learned it from watching some of the bigger magic shows...

having a member of the same sex telling you it's gonna be ok, seems to calm the nerves..

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Re: Magician Performing at Disneyland Now

Postby Richard Kaufman » September 15th, 2014, 10:04 pm

The only other magician I've seen at Disneyland in the past few years was Johnny Ace Palmer, working as a cowboy magician in the same theater.
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