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rcad
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Québec, Canada
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Posted: Feb 20, 2004 2:14pm
Hi all,
To your knowledge, has anybody ever impersonated Arlequin as a magician? Or a Joker?
Richard
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Todd Robbins
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Posted: Feb 22, 2004 11:43pm
Back in the 1930s, magician Dai Vernon did a Harlequin act. It was a silent stage act that he performed around NY including the famous Rainbow Room.
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rcad
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Québec, Canada
209 Posts
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Posted: Feb 24, 2004 7:35pm
Thanks Todd!
I'll search for some information on that act then... I think I could have fun with a Joker character but at the same time, I don't want to look too much like Batman's Joker. That's why I'm researching the roots of that character to start from scratch...
Richard
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Bill Palmer
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Posted: Mar 3, 2004 12:37am
Dai Vernon's Harlequin Act was one of the few real failures that the Professor endured. He was booked to perform a stand-up silent act by Frances Rockefeller King. The Professor talked about it on occasion. That was the act that he worked out the Ball, Cone and Handkerchief for, if I am not mistaken.
The part that caused the failure of the act was that Dai had an ending that involved the changing of a coconut into a monkey. The monkey would climb up into the light fixtures and "misbehave." The Professor described this in rather colorful terms.
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enchantress
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Posted: Jun 27, 2006 10:45am
Never perform with a monkey. Not only will they get all the laughs, they will fling poo at you if they don't like your routine.
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fettucinibrother
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North Carolina
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Posted: Jul 6, 2007 9:04am
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On 2004-02-24 19:35, rcad wrote:
Thanks Todd!
I'll search for some information on that act then... I think I could have fun with a Joker character but at the same time, I don't want to look too much like Batman's Joker. That's why I'm researching the roots of that character to start from scratch...
Richard
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Richard,
You should go all the way back to "commedia del arte" if you want to learn the history of "Arlecchino" or the "Harlequin" character. I worked/performed with a Commedia troupe for a short spell. Very intertesting artform, and the beginning or birth of many standard comedy characters that live on today in various modern forms...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell'arte
http://www.commedia-dell-arte.com/
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