Here's what happened at the October meeting of Assembly 23, The Larry West Assembly
“PSYCHO”
President
Larry Lipman opened the meeting by soliciting volunteers to perform at the
National Press Club (NPC) Holiday Party in December. The NPC provides us with penthouse
space for our meetings and this is one way we return the favor.
We are also looking
for a local theater director to attend one of our meetings and provide a
critique for each member’s performance. Lars Klores has been in contact with Frank
Schutts (many local plays including Avenue Q) and will try to set this up for
March.
October’s theme was the movie “Psycho.” Larry
Lipman opened with a four ace revelation. Starting with a 4X4 playing card
matrix, columns and rows were randomly folded on top of each other until only
four cards were face up. Incredibly, they were the four aces. Next, Arnold Fuoco had a four card packet
selected and the packet represented the Bates Motel. One by one the cards
changed into photos of the characters from the film “Psycho.” Up next was Dwight Redman who dazzled us with
a “vanishing jacks” packet effect. Four jacks appeared and disappeared and
transformed into blanks at sonic speed. Continuing the “psycho” theme, Erik
Feinberg surprised us with a box that exploded revealing a mouse trap. He also
slashed and restored a credit card. Succeeding Erik was Micah Goodwin who
performed an amazing mind reading effect. He had Dan Holtan write a name of
someone on a folded billet and tore the sheet into many pieces. He was able to
divine the name on the sheet: Dan’s father.
Do you like escapes? Stan Hillard
had us riveted as he secured two ropes with four silk handkerchiefs, one wand,
and two rings. With one stroke all the props came free and the audience was
left bewildered. Lars Klores moved into the spotlight with a mind reading
routine. He had two members shuffle and select one page from about 20 emotions
written on small sheets of paper. Without looking at the sheets Lars revealed
both emotions correctly. He then amazed us with his version of “Bux Stop” by
Kuda Bux. Up next was Dan Holtan who astonished us with four packets of color
changing card backs and his version of “Beam me up Scotty.” The final performer
was Nolan Montgomery who entertained us with his classic vanishing wand,
appearing hat, and hat and ball routine.
The theme for November is based on the Hitchcock movie "Rope."
