Free Magic Secrets Revealed
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Like all great adventures, this one starts with someone trying to get a girl. After all, King Meneleaus didn't go to Troy for the baklava.Playwright, journalist, comedian and bestselling author Mark Leiren-Young recalls his teenage escapades in this hilarious memoir and coming-of-age story. A geeky bully-magnet, Mark was seventeen and wanted to be a playwright, but even more than that, he wanted to impress Sarah, the girl he’d pined for since elementary school. It’s 1980 and, thanks to Doug Henning, magic is hip, so Mark hooks up with Randy, a stoner magician, and Kyle, an ambitious young actor, to chase fame—and the women of their dreams. Seeing a chance at having all of their desires come true, they risk everything to create a show they know will be like Star Wars on stage. But is getting a date worth having your head cut off?
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—Will Ferguson, 2012 Giller prizewinner and three-time winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour
“Mark Leiren-Young is one funny guy, as you might expect from a winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and a great writer, to boot. Driven by humour, hormones and the heart, Leiren-Young takes you on a side-splitting coming-of-age journey that lays bare not only the secrets of magic, but the magic secrets of growing up.”
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It sounded cheesy and obvious and when I rehearsed it, it felt cheesy and obvious. I definitely got how this would have cracked Barry up. It made me want to laugh, too, and I wasn’t stoned. But by dress rehearsal, Marvin and I managed to get the switch down to a few seconds. Even Kyle was impressed. Randy had figured out how to do the Metamorphosis—a legendary transformation—with a borrowed bedsheet and a toy helmet he’d liberated from the JCC daycare.
Once I appeared, I delivered my message from Santar in quasi-olde English telling Oryon he was doomed and would never rescue Gamatria. Then, as I screamed, “Prepare to d …” Oryon would zap me with a mystic whammy and I’d wander offstage like a zombie. Very cool. After Zephyr and I conquered our transformation, it was time for Randy to rehearse the big finale.
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