For anyone one who does not know Charlie he is the Manager of the Houdini's Magic Shop on Pier 39 talented magician, comedian and a good guy. if you get the chance stop in and introduce yourself.
Rich

Thanks Rich for the kind words. Please stop anytime to see me, I am there pretty much all the time. I also appear on Sunday nights at the SF Playhouse in the show "Magic & More"..with Big Alcatraz, RJ Owens and Adam Sachs and sometimes Fred Anderson. $20 admission and showtime is at 7pm. Lots of fun.

Charlie

EXIT THEATRE

156 Eddy (at Taylor), San Francisco, CA

BACK AGAIN!!!

Christian Cagigal’s “Pandora Experiment” returns to EXIT Stage Left July 25-August 16

Master Magician & Illusionist’s “Slightly Creepy” show is a highly theatrical play on the imagination

San Francisco. May 13, 2008. "Such tricks have strong imagination,” said William Shakespeare. Once again, Christian Cagigal will jolt you out of those midsummer doldrums with his special brand of highly theatrical, mind-melding magic, luring you to play along in his “slightly creepy” show.

EXIT Theatre brings back for the fourth time acclaimed magician and illusionist Christian Cagigal’s The Pandora Experiment for eight midsummer performances - Fridays and Saturdays, July 25-26, August 1-2, 8-9, 15-16 - at EXIT Stage Left, 156 Eddy Street in downtown San Francisco. All shows are at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $20. Reservations http://www.theexit.org.

Audiences love giving their minds over to the puckish Cagigal for an intimate evening of close-up magic, mind-reading, and theater. Cagigal is an EXIT Theatre artist-in-residence and appears regularly at the Eddy Street venue.


Magician and illusionist Christian Cagigal invites his audience to think inside the box in The Pandora Experiment, Fridays and Saturdays, July 25-Aug.16 at EXIT Stage Left, 156 Eddy St. in Downtown San Francisco

“Cagigal’s performance takes the audience beyond the willing suspension of disbelief and into another place and time where magic is not the work of a performer but exists in creaky wooden boxes found in a grandparent’s attic…His staging and sensitivity as he plays with his audience conveys a level of trust…so[they] feel included in the magic.” – Nara Dahlbacka, SF Weekly

"A show that'll change viewers' estimation of magic forever. No mere illusionist...Cagigal is one of those rare alchemists of the imagination." - Nirmala Nataraj, SF Station

"Dastardly clever. Cagigal's feats...keep his audience riveted." - Robert Avila, SF Bay Guardian

"What does The Pandora Experiment reveal? Above all else: Imagination." - Nara Dahlbacka, SF Weekly


Cagigal is a former member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe the nation's oldest living political theater company and a founding member of the new Precarious Theatre Company.


Show info and links to reviews (scroll down the right hand side for those)
http://christiancagigal.blogspot.com/

Show info/reviews/youtube clip on morning TV
http://www.myspace.com/ccagigal

Photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tangobaby2/......9267486/

Buy Tickets
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/28740

Christian,

Get me a poster and I'll hang it in the store.

Charlie

Anyone know the results of the PCAM competition at Montery over the weekend?

Hey all... I'm new to the Forum here, but also in the Bay Area... I'm looking to join the SAM and was wondering if anybody on here goes to any of the Bay Area SAM groups and if you're pleased with them... I'm considering the Palo Alto one as it's an easier drive then going into the City... Any advice would be appreciated... Thanks Ted

Hey Ted, I hear good things about the Palo Alto group and have met a few of the members and they are good guys. Welcome to the thread and to the Bay Area
Rich

Anyone here have Scott Alcalay's (of the Oakland Magic Circle) contact info? OR, would anyone here be willing to give him a shout on my behalf?

He sent me a PM asking me to call him regarding the OMC, but he only gave me a 6 digit phone number! He has yet to read the PM I sent back to him...

thanks!
G

This Sunday (20th) is the SF AIDS Walk,
if you can support our team of Magicians with any donation,
it would be so appreciated!

Here is my link to our donation site and team for the 2008 Walk:

http://aidswalksanfrancisco2008.kintera.org/vincent

Thanks! Walt

Rich,

Thanks for the report on the Palo Alto group. I have decided to go to their August meeting to check it all out. Hope to meet some of you there.

Ted

Hey gang,
Just wanted to share a little teaser trailer for Pandora. We open next Friday.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OHXXo7koBIg

Brian Scott and David Hirata,
two of the Bay Area's best,
this Sunday at the free San Francisco Theater Festival
in Yerba Buena Gardens!

See ya's there?
Walt

BREAK MANY LEGS GUYS!!!!

More shameless plugging on my part,
The Pandora Experiment was named one of the Top 5 theater shows to catch this weekend, on their page THE LIST, for the third time!!!

We open tonight and run until Aug 16th every Friday and Saturday.
more info and tickets theexit.org .

C

Anybody here planning on going to see the Pendragon's this weekend at Cal Magic? I'll be there tonight.

Ted

I will be there tomorrow night,

to all of my friends out here in the Bay Area do try to make it to this wonderful venue that is a rare Gem for the art of magic. We are truly blessed to have so many oportunities to see great magic here in the Bay Area and this place is one of only a handfull of venues featuring magic in the world. please make a point of reserving a seat (or more)for one of the upcoming shows and show your support of the art of magic and this rare and wonderful place. (tell everyone you see)
Thanks
Rich

Somewhere along the line I stopped getting the email updates from Gerry... and I stopped going because of it.

I am going to see Christian's show tonight.

Some people don't require a written invitation, some do...

It's not about the invitation but rather the schedule updates to keep it on my radar.

“TALES OF WONDER AND SHADOW”
-An Evening of Magical Enchantment-

Reservations: http://www.MagicParlor.Info

THE CABARET THEATRE
1748 Market Street, San Francisco

8:30pm Sharp!

The Third Saturday Evening Every Month!
August 16 / September 20 / October 18 / November 15

$25 Cover-Charge - Café Open for Soft-Refreshments
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Can't wait!