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Platform magic

Platform magic is magic that is done for larger audiences than close-up magic and for smaller audiences than stage magic. It is more intimate than stage magic because it does not require expensive, large-scale stage equipment and can thus be performed closer to the audience and without a stage. Many of the tricks performed by platform magicians are sufficiently angle-sensitive as to make them impossible to perform as micromagic. Most working magicians are parlor/platform magicians.

Common types
Common platform magic tricks include: • The "Miser's Dream" – a seemingly endless supply of coins is produced from thin air • Sucker tricks, like the "die box", where a giant die is put in a two-compartment box. The magician makes it vanish but the audience believe he simply shifts it to the other compartment. Eventually the magician opens both sides of the box and the die is gone. It has appeared in a previously-empty hat. • Audience participation tricks, like the breakaway wand, where a wand remains rigid for the magician but falls apart every time the volunteer touches it • Production effects, like the square circle, in which a bottomless, topless box with a screened front encloses a bottomless, topless cylinder. Both are shown empty and put together again. The magician then produces large quantities of silk scarves, fruit, bottles, and so on from the "empty" cylinder, inside the square box Many other effects could be considered to fit into this classification. == Platform magicians ==
Platform magicians
Platform magicians are not as well known to the general public as stage magicians such as David Copperfield and Penn & Teller. Some better-known ones include: • David AbbottSteve CohenBlack HermanFred KapsJeff McBrideJohn MulhollandChanning PollockAlan Shaxon ==See also==
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