February Meeting: Tom dobrowolski Lecture

Monday, February 3, 2025
6:30 PM
@ Magic, Inc.
Free for Members - $20 for guests

Tom Dobrowolski has been studying and performing magic for over 50 years. His many years of experience include performances as diverse as cruise ships and Hawaiian resorts, birthday parties and illusion shows, walk around close-up, and TV appearances.

Tom has been an active participant on the Chicago magic scene for many years. His friends include magicians from around the world and his unique brand of magic reflects their creativity as well as his own. This, combined with his extensive knowledge of magic, enables Tom to find innovative solutions when developing new tricks and reworking classic magic effects.

 Tom has most recently published a series of contributor driven lecture notes that he alternatively describes as a journal that only comes out once a year or a paper convention.

Tom's Lecture includes:
 

• Whack to the Future - The magician challenges the spectator to a game of bluff and speed. The spectator ends up having no chance, because the magician moves so fast it almost feels like time travel.
  
• Einstein Trick - A great self-working card trick you’ll do one on one or with/for an entire audience. You’ll fool yourself with this one.
  
• A Dicey Deal - After a spectator rolls a die and then rotates it to his heart’s content so that is final orientation is truly random a shuffled deck is dealt out per the dice resulting in amazing coincidences and a winning hand.
  
• Myth - Three cards are freely selected then found in a spectator shuffled deck … or were they?
  
• DBAA - The magician starts with four odd cards: double-backers. After musing on how useless four double backers are, the magician decides a little magic can fix this. He changes the double-backers to four queens and causes a deck to appear. The queens vanish one-at-a-time until only one is left, which reproduces the other three queens in a flash.
  
• I Guarantee - Among other things, the Bicycle guarantee on the Joker guarantees a good card trick and this routine proves just that!
  
• Hassel(Less)Hoff - The best most direct approach to the Hofzinzer Ace problem ever published. John Bannon asked to include it in his new upcoming book.
  
• Jim Ryan’s Cards Across - Jim Ryans classic trick. A reputation making routine.
  
• Jim Ryan’s Bill Tear - Jim’s handling finally taught correctly as part of a great new fun routine.

 
As time allows Tom will also demonstrate his best-selling magic releases “OiaTER”, “Big Four Poker” and his most recent “Snowstorm in Chicago” which just got a 90 % review from Craig Petty.