Yep, one by one they handed the ticket seller money and went inside to see the big show inside the big tent. Once they got inside it truely was show time....we started off with a magic act star-ing, yours truely.
The thing about that magic act was - you were never sure how long it might go. Once I did a 3 minute magic act and sometimes I could go one for 15 to 20 minutes with acts that included "Hananewchuck the dancing chicken" Now for those of you that don't know what Hananewchuck means Batman Rick told me it was an old native word that means "chicken with bat like movements" I never questioned him on it after that.
Yes, dancing chicken was another Batman mastermind...well, Batman Rick, Harry Albaker and myself we had to develop the routine for the chicken and we had to come up with a way for the chicken to do the tricks, teach him the steps, make him dance and obey all the livestock laws at the same time.
Well one night, after intense training - the chicken just was not working out, he would not do what we wanted him to do, he could not dance so, after much thought and countless hours of hard work, we were all hungry so, we had a great chicken dinner that could not be beat. The very next day we went to Spencer gifts and bought a rubber chicken and made him dance across the stage and "Clarence the dancing chicken was born."
Now, I used to make "Clarence lay on a bed of nails" but...more on that another day.
Mark Mysterrio
Magician, Sideshow & Foolery Artist
http://ultimatemagicshows.com
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