I'm curious if anyone here has multiple routines for different venues.
For example I have been doing a routine for close up for a number of years that I do more or less the same for renaissance faires as well.
Now that I have some street size cups it does require a little adjustment in loading but it's still basically the same routine plus a hat load.
So does anyone have more than one routine in their arsenal?

I used a standard 3 cup routine. But when performing for kids, I used a 1 cup, 3 balls routine. They were too impatient. Couldn't sit still long enough to watch 3 cups. Very similar to the "Two in the hand, one in the pocket" routine. Final load was an apple. It always went over good with a young crowd.

I pretty much use the Vernon or Mark Wilson routines for C&Bs and I have 2 different routines for the CC… one more like a C&B presentation for when those I am performing for who are into it or the standard, is it in the pocket or under the Cup for those that need a quick marvel. These are usually performed sitting down.

I have never performed with my larger street Cups but would like to come up with something for the living room standing up behind a table.

I have found kids are not interested in a C&B routine but like a CC much to what Tom wrote.

Bruce

With kids it has to be really short! The final load is the part they liked.

Tom

With the CC, the kids get into the where is part… and the final load.

Bruce

Yep, nice and quick. Then move on to the next big, noisy effect.

Jasper23
              It all depends what you want in YOUR arsenal,from what I've read,you sit while doing your routine?If I'm wrong ,correct me.There is alot of stuff out there............ Alex Elmsley has a great routine,as well as Mendoza,Al Schneider,The Professer,Ammar,ect...Watch what they do,and then, dovelope your own style. Hope this might be some help :)mel

I don't want to pick nits, but that's part of what I do.

I don't have any cup moves in my arsenal. I don't have any routines in my arsenal. I don't have an arsenal (of magic). Arsenals are for weapons. My magic is not a weapon. If you think of your magic as a weapon, then you will think of your audience, or at least part of it, as "the enemy." Audiences can sense this.

Punx used to refer to his magical resources as his "Schatztruhe," his treasure chest.

"Our language shapes our thoughts, and our thoughts shape our language," Guilliermo Peregrino (el gentil sabio).

How ironic. My "Schatztruhe" is where I keep all my bullets.

The question is this:

Why would you perform for your enemy?

To turn them into a friend!