Intimate Miracles: The Magic of Dean Dill (Hardcover)

Intimate Miracles: The Magic of Dean Dill (Hardcover)
By Dean Dill, compiled by Tim Trono

A working performer’s repertoire, back in print.

For years, this book has been nearly impossible to find. Now it returns in a fully redesigned hardcover edition, and it belongs on the shelf of anyone who cares about practical, performance-tested magic.

Dean Dill is remembered for Dean’s Box, Explosion, and Blizzard, but those are only a slice of his work. Intimate Miracles gathers 14 routines from his real working repertoire, the material he refined in front of live audiences and trusted when it counted, including his appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

What’s inside

• The Tonight Show act. Learn Dean’s television set from start to finish, including his stand-up silk routine, the coin matrix he performed on air, and his card-to-orange closer.
• Sponge ball magic. A strolling routine built to hold up under close scrutiny, plus a flashlight routine with ideas you can adapt to nearly any sponge ball handling.
• Matrix magic. Dean was a leading authority on the subject. Learn his coins-and-napkin favourite, the formal matrix and his finale, X-plosion.
• Card magic. Produce any named card, using a 52-on-1 gag card as the lead-in.
• Close-up miracles. His bill-to-sugar-packet routine and his handling of Pen Through Anything, which works with the versions on the market today.
• The Linking Ropes. Two ropes pass behind your head and come out linked. It plays for a few people or a large crowd, and it was the seed that grew into Dean’s Box.

About this edition

• Four additional routines
• Improved explanations
• Newly commissioned illustrations, drawn to match the style of the originals created by Dean’s father
• The original foreword by Johnny Carson

Coins, cards, ropes, sponge balls, silks and bills, across easy to advanced levels. Whether you work close-up, strolling or on stage, there’s something here you can put into your show. It’s also a lasting tribute to a generous teacher and a true gentleman of magic.