The Melodramatic Magicians

A STORY LINE





1. A “Mockumentary” of the post modern Indie Art House Films. Often, dark, ominous, deep, and as you requested, Melodramatic. Always serious which gives performers and directors the room to use satire, sarcasm and use the irony. Being so serious when the content is so ridiculous, this will only intensify the predetermined idea of a “Melodramatic” tone. I also stress the idea of being melancholy to add to the irony, using long pauses and long breathes.



2. A “TV Drama.” Whether you wish to define using the traditional Soap Opera or the post modern primetime “teen soap” ie. The OC. In this adaptation there should be a similar tone as the Indie Art House Film; Serious. Performers rarely smile in TV Dramas unless looking into the past or future. But the PRESENT time [A Storyline] should be dramatic and serious. “Shattered dreams, shattered relationships and lives” Note that most Dramas even go so far as to bring characters back from the dead. There are no limits to the seriousness.



3. A “Reality Show”. Here is a EXAMPLE intro: Improvisation Is Key Here: This Story Line Would Most Likely have the most room for performers to use improvisation since in a reality show the tone is often uncomfortable and random.

“This is the true story of 4 illusionists picked to live in a house. Go through rehab together, reclaim their lives as mortals and drop their painful addition to Magic. Find out what happens when people stop being performers and start being real”

It would be fun to treat magic like an addictive drug.



4. “David Blaine” comes to “town”… All the local Magicians wishing not to be cast in his shadow begin to plan their own attention grabbing stunts. One of the loser “wanna be” magicians should be Chris Angel who isn’t any better than the magicians the story revolves around. He should be treated like a hack while David Blaine should be put on a much undeserved pedestal. This is a better story line if you wish to “call out” the art, or Magic, or magic as an entertainment medium. Considering that David Blaine may be a easier character to CAST the names Chris Angel and David Blaine can be swapped if wanted.



















B STORY LINE





“It all started when”[INSERT JOKE HERE]



BE SURE TO REPEAT THE PREVIOUS STATEMENT BEFORE READING CONTENT BELOW, PERFORMERS CAN USE IMPROVISATION WITH THE WORD “STARTED” TO AVOID REDUNDACY.



“I cut my assistant in half,[LONG PAUSE]Literally… it was mess”… [LONG PAUSE] “legally”

         

         

“I cut off my first finger at a 5 year old birthday party”

         

         

“I made an eight year old girl disappear… she was found 2 years later dead in Guam”

         

         

“a tiger mauled my lover”





“ I made a $2.2 billion dollar stealth bomber disappear at a USO event, it was found 4 days later in North Korea”

         

         

“my stomach acid absorbed the tip of the 10 foot long hanky and I ripped my stomach out of my mouth at a bar mitzvah”









Said while looking in the mirror, smoking a cigarette, black and white film in a bathroom full of smoke like an over developed Indie film.



“My whole life was a lie, smoke and mirrors. Now I can’t look in the mirror without having a smoke, why? Cus’ I’m nothing but a fucking LIE”



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“I have dreams of being a real mind freak, like David Blaine”





“I often try standing for days straight like the David Blaine, no one cares because instead of being in central park I’m in my basement….alone…...naked …….crying , standing on a tidy cats stool instead of a glass pillar.”





“now a days, the only tricks I perform ….are on myself”





“Yea, well you know levitation isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”





“If I get the gusto to do it, im gonna cut my own wrists using all 52 cards.”





“My rabbit went Solo, he took the doves with him too. He told me I was holding him down….. well … I guess I did literally hold him down, in hats and pockets….. but we were a team dammit!”





“People tell me if Houdini was alive I would have no chance at a career. Well let me tell YOU! If Houdini were alive today, he would be scratching the inside of his coffin you fools. HE’S BURIED, he not THAT good! He’s no David Blaine.”





“I went to pull Mr.CottonTail out of my hat…I pulled the ears right off my rabbit who screamed noises  no one knew a rabbit could make. The worst part was it was at an old folk’s home and the event was so tragic it killed a patient, her heart attack was so loud and dramatic it made almost drowned out the shrieks of the bleeding earless rabbit”



















C STORY LINE





“Then There Was The Time”(INSERT JOKE HERE)

BE SURE TO REPEAT THE PREVIOUS STATEMENT BEFORE READING CONTENT BELOW, PERFORMERS CAN IMPROV THE WORD STARTED TO AVOID REDUNDACY



“magicians secrets revealed came on FOX”

         

“Harry Potter made everyone worship wizardry instead of magic”



“that card game came out” “the gathering”





“I used the disappearing box to smuggle coke into the country. One the box arrived I was so high I forgot to take the drugs out. Once on stage instead of making my assistant disappear I turned her into 20 kilos of Peruvian cocaine.”





“I pulled chairs out from underneath my assistant and she did no levitate, in fact her head slammed the stage and she is now a [PAUSE] a Reh Tard”