Pitch Acts for Magicians - Bundle

Author/Originator: Various
Product ID: e1044

7-PDF Bundle Price: $28 Just $9.50

DESCRIPTION

Step into a lost world of fast talkers, medicine men, and midway barkers—and come out with seven fully scripted, audience-tested acts you can actually perform. This special bundle brings together the classic pitch routines of masters like Tommy Windsor, George Thompson, Doc Hokum (Dave Coleman), Tom Palmer, and Prof. Van Cleve, giving you not just ideas, but complete, working blueprints. From Windsor’s legendary Street Faker Act and Suitcase Sideshow—each packed with 15 tricks and relentless comedy—to Thompson’s award-winning Comedy Medicine Pitch and the timeless Doc Hokum routine, these are the real scripts, real lines, and real structures that entertained crowds for decades. A $28 value, you can now get all seven publications for just $9.50. If you’ve ever wanted a ready-made act with personality, pacing, and proven laughs built in, this bundle delivers it in spades.

Here's what's included...

STREET FAKER ACT
Tommy Windsor's original "Street Faker Act!" This is the original manuscript (re-typeset) for his complete pitch act routine based upon a fast-talking salesman peddling, "Dr. Presto's Magical Medicines For Mysterious Maladies." 15 tricks in 15 minutes with surefire laughs all the way through and the entire act fits in a suitcase. Everything is explained in the 12-page manuscript we supply, including Windsor's COMPLETE SPIEL or PATTER, what tricks to use, suggestions about using apparatus you already have, and even how to organize the tricks in your suitcase. This is positively the SAME ACT as performed by Tommy Windsor for many years...nothing is held back! 100% clean humor, so you can perform it for any group.

THOMPSON'S ORIGINAL COMEDY MEDICINE PITCH
George Thompson's Original Comedy Medicine Pitch for "EGYPANNA"...The Wonder Tonic of the Age! This is the same comedy routine that won Most Outstanding Act at the 1946 I.B.M. Convention in St. Louis, exactly as presented by Thompson, word for word. One hundred belly laughs in 14 minutes. There's no real magic in this one, but it's a riot from start to finish. Completely re-typeset with large, easy to read type. 8 pages.

THE ORIGINAL DOC HOKUM MEDICINE PITCH
Dave Coleman's "Doc Hokum" was the classic of all the medicine pitch routines. Dave was a character actor, and his Doc Hokum lived just as surely as Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn. This is the complete text of Dave's famous routine as released by his widow in 1959, with every gag and bit of business. Perform it with or without a few of your favorite visual effects. If you have some acting ability, this delightful bit of Americana will give you a very marketable side gig that is always in high demand. Re-typeset, 9 pages.

MEDICINE SHOW TONITE
First published in 1961 by Tom Palmer, Medicine Show Tonite is Van Cleve's award-winning magical pitch act based upon his impersonation of W.C. Fields, as a lovable, bumbling swindler. You get the complete, scripted act - from make-up and costuming to every hilarious line and bit of business - as well as all of the wizardry in this fast-moving, highly-entertaining act. Uses mostly standard props. 18 pages, illustrated, re-typeset.

THE MAGICAL PITCHMAN
Here's an act which you can use immediately and one which you'll find extremely easy to book. Imagine yourself as a sidewalk pitchman doing a bit of magic and then pitching your wares. It's all a laugh, from beginning to end as you extol the virtues of Dr. Bokakiak's Famous Elliptical Asiatical Pendicuricol, Grizzly Grease, Hoo Sick Him and that wonder gadget - Dnasuoht (yep, that's THOUSAND spelled backwards). You sell nothing - "It's all free, folks." The spiel includes quotations from a number of letters from satisfied users of your products. These will bring real belly laughs. We include no apparatus. Use any tricks or props you happen to own. Get yourself together a number of old medicine bottles and jars and you are all set.

SUITCASE SIDESHOW
Tommy Windsor called this act, The Son Of The Street Faker, since he performed it as an alternate to his famous original pitch act. First published in 1962, Tommy Windsor's "Suitcase Sideshow" is a complete one-man, magical pitch act you can carry in a single suitcase and perform without assistants. Windsor provides you with a continuous line of rapid fire comedy patter, written with the assistance of magical funnyman George McAthy, that emulates the spiel of a carnival barker selling sideshow tickets on the Midway. As each act is described, the pitchman illustrates it with a different magic trick. Running time is approximately 16 minutes and the act features 15 different tricks. And while Windsor suggests dozens of old standards, almost any trick you now perform can easily be adapted to suit the clever patter. Re-typeset, 30 big pages.

THE TIE PITCH
While Tom Palmer was still doing comedy magic, he was one of the funniest people in the business. The Tie Pitch was an act he put together in the early 1950s and later released to the magic fraternity in 1961. It is based upon the popular theme of a fast-talking huckster pitching his wares on a street corner - in this case, neckties. The act offers 10 minutes of non-stop laughs and a steady stream of magic, as neckties are knotted and magically unknot, stretch, are cut and restored, vanish, and more. You get the entire routined act, including patter and other bits of business, explanations of how the necktie effects are done, etc. Plus, the act is easy to make up with just a few standard props and other items. Re-typeset, 12 pages, illustrated.