Performance Options
Make your next Awards Banquet, Client Event, Meeting or Hospitality Suite truly UNFORGETTABLE!
“Chicago's Official Magic Man” —Chicago Sun Times
Dennis Watkins performs high-powered, fast-paced, unexplainable feats of magic and mentalism GUARANTEED to blow your audiences away. Watkins has played virtually every type of venue including the Tropicana and Planet Hollywood Casinos in Las Vegas, Chicago’s United Center, Chicago’s Navy Pier, performing arts centers and countless college campuses and corporate events from coast to coast.
Stage shows are perfect if you want to:
- Feature your guests and clients in exciting ways
- Create a truly unique event with virtually no hassle or production costs
- Look like a hero to your guests and teammates
Stand up and Stage Magic
Corporate, College and Private shows run anywhere from 15 minutes to 55 minutes and are ideal for audiences of 25-2,000 people.
All shows are custom-tailored to feature you and your guests through hilarious physical comedy, astonishing magic and mind-blowing mentalism.
Performances include original, one-of-a-kind routines, such as a wild card illusion performed from inside a fully-inflated six-foot balloon!
Imagine the reaction from your audience when Watkins read the minds of six people at the same time or predicts a phone number randomly selected from the phone book.
This is entertainment engineered specifically for your smart, savvy, sophisticated audience and is guaranteed to keep them astonished and rolling in the aisles.
Watkins specialize in making you and your guests the stars of the show. Would you like your special guest, VIP or CEO to appear from nowhere or be cut in half? Would you like to present a new product in a magical way? Would you like to entertain, instruct and motivate your team all at the same time? All of this and more are possible!
“SIMPLY MAGNIFICENT”
–The Chicago Reader
Strolling Magic is perfect if you want to:
- Catalyze conversation
- Create engagement among your guests
- Thoroughly entertain without overwhelming your event
Strolling Close Up Magic
Close-up magic happens right under your nose. Truly some of the most stunning, visual and mind-bending magic you can imagine! Watkins’ unique and original close-up magic transforms ordinary cocktail receptions, hospitality suites, banquets, corporate events and other gatherings into absolutely unforgettable events.
Watkins uses audience participation, comedy, mentalism, and mind-boggling magic to get your event moving with strolling performances. Using cards, rings, borrowed objects, rubber bands, and other every day objects, Watkins works his way through the event, performing intimate magic for small groups and individuals. Dollar bills float or end up stuffed inside oranges, signed cards switch places or end up in someone’s wallet, cell phones penetrate balloons, dollar bills magically turn into hundreds…and a great deal more! As Watkins moves from group to group, everyone gets their own five to ten minute magic show!
“CARD TRICKS SO ASTONISHING YOU WON’T WANT TO KNOW HOW THEY’RE DONE!”
–Chicago Free Press
Close-Up Performances
This kind of close-up sleight of hand magic can also be performed in a more formal setting where the audience is seated and watching the performance. Intended for audiences of 5-50, close-up magic shows are perfect for small private events, dinner parties, and smaller corporate events. Additionally, this kind of show is ideal for sales meetings and other presentations where you may want to revitalize and motivate your team through custom-scripted shows that feature your corporate message.
“Watkins’ MASTERY of sleight of hand is evident through out.”
–MUM ( The magazine of the Society of American Magicians)