I would like to say this is the slowest performance piece in my show.
I just thought some feedback might be helpful... or not!

Please checkout Frank Balzerak performing at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP-9ewBdrP0

Put your microphone cord under your shirt and maybe stop saying "you guys" so much, otherwise a very professional and polished performance.

The first things that hit me are:

1. You gotta stop shifting back and forth. It makes you look nervous and especially when you're doing the bill switch or any other effect in which the audience is asked to focus on a very small object, all the bobbing and weaving makes it hard to watch you.

2. Remember that the guy in the audience doesn't have a mike. If he says something, you've got to repeat it, or the only people getting the whole show are the two of you.

3. You're tossing off most of your lines as if you've done them a thousand times before. Because of this, the whole piece moves at one steady pace. Sort of monotonous and without any high points. The lines should all seem spontaneous. It's tough, but you've got to be in the moment.

Like I said, those thing stood out the most. Don't get me wrong, you are clearly well-rehearsed, confident and likeable on stage, so you're mostly there. Once you get these refinements down, come back and we'll talk about doing original material.

I liked it. Nice clean up at end on offbeat amongst laughter.

Is bob part of the act? Just kidding...

I thought it was great presentation and I can not add more than what was
already mentioned...

Thanks for sharing your video...good stuff.

I think Curtis nailed it. Cleaning up that would make that a very polished pro performance. I used to do that shifting back and forth thing until Monk Watson broke me of it. He was able to get up and mimic my movement for me and I realized how really distracting it was. Took some effort to break as it was a way of dealing with nervousness that I wasn't even aware of, but greatly improved my performance.

Listen to Curtis' suggestions and then apply them to everything you do in the show and not just this effect. Its a good bet that you have these bad habits in all thing you do. So you need to break them everywhere.

Boy, I don't know, I thought the performance was very entertaining. Professional speakers are trained to move back and forth when engaging an audience. As was mentioned the audience was to focus on the bill but I didn't see the movement as a problem. You can tell Frank has been performing for a while and his confidence shown through. He was relaxed, entertaining and the audience heard the by-play with the one gentleman and they loved it. Just my 2 cents. ----BTW Frank I really enjoyed your DVD "Magic for Humans" I use the Chocolate Coin routine all the time when appropriate.
Dave

I agree with davidpaul. I thought it was very entertaining and the patter came across as spontaneous at the same time being well rehearsed. And I knew I had recognized Frank after looking back at my DVD collection at the "World's Greatest Magic" Series on spongeballs. Great performance! And really all the critique you need is from the audience feedback which was obviously really good.

I really liked the humor! Can I use some of those lines?
Actually thought it was good, nice personality, but the rocking back and forth was a little distracting.

Just a suggestion... have 'Bob' come up and and put the folded fill in his fist for the 'change' - lots of humor possibilities, and it gives a reason for folding the bill.

I loved the humour. I loved the handling, great job! I think that the bobbing was only distracting because the camera was zoomed in.

Your dialog was great, and I didn't detect a 'rehearsed' air. Sounded very off the cuff, and friendly.

Very nice.

To each his own I guess.