Day 3 - International Gala Show & late lecture

The International Gala Show was also held at the Olympia theater, so needed the short bus ride to arrive there. The show started right on time, as as the night before, we were entertained while waiting with live music by Michael Close. Tonoight's MC was, of course for an international show, Aldo Colombini. [Entertainment Tonight note from the red carpet buzz: Aldo has not only become a US citizen recently, he is now also a Floridian. Wild Magic from Tampa has become Wild/Colombini Magic.] Aldo was as good as he always is in this role and provided entertaining filling between the acts. The evening started with Lu Chen from Taiwan, who performed an almost traditional, but energetic, doves and manipulation act.

The Junge, Junge! group from Germany returned to perform their other well known act, an Englishman in New York. While this was quite good, I think their show of the previous evening far superior. A second German act was next, Julius Frack, whose tailor themed act introduces thimbles and floating scissors, with a clever surprise at the end. Fantasio performed a comdey manipulation act that was a lot of fun.

The headliners and closing act for the evening were the quick change artists, David & Dania. A combination of muisc, dance, magic and costume changes that was astounding.
All in all another excellent evening's entertainment, the only small gripe might be that the show was relatively short, but definitely quality rather than quantity.

After bussing back to the convention site, we were treated to Charlie Frye, who writes a column in Magic magazine. He showed a multitude of comedy gags that could be incorporated into an act, assuming it matches the persona of that act. He is also a juggler and showed using a threaded plate a la helicopter card, in the middle of plate juggling. The sight of a plate suddenly floating around his body, before rejoining the juggle, was very good.

Tomorrow's day posting will include reviews of the six Glod Cup Close Up finalist performances.