Magic Box Productions is the new home of the Fitzkee Trilogy

All the rights and stock pertaining to it have been acquired from Lee Jacobs Productions and are now in our possession.

Dealer pricing is available; e-mail us for details.


Showmanship for Magicians and Magic by Misdirection are avaliable at the following prices...

Showmanship for Magicians: Out of print (coming soon)

The Trick Brain... coming soon.

Magic by Misdirection: Out of print (coming soon)

Book One of the Fitzkee Trilogy:

SHOWMANSHIP FOR MAGICIANS

Complete Discussion of Audience Appeals and Fundamentals of Showmanship and Presentation

In 199 hardbound pages, Showmanship for Magicians takes up the subject of presenting of magic to gain the greatest audience response, including a detailed analysis of spectator appeals and how to incorporate them into the presentation of magic. Step by step, you will learn how to create a favorable reception through choice of material, style of performance, character of work, timing, pointing, pacing, building up to climaxes, emphasis, routining, arrangement of material, and in many other ways. This is the classic tome of stage craft written by a showman ahead of his time.

Some of the subjects covered in the 25 important chapters are:

Music * Rhythm * Youth * Sex Appeal * Personality * Selling Yourself * Color * Harmony * Sentiment * Romance * Surprise * Unity * Character * Situation * Costuming * Grooming * Make-Up * Personal Behavior * Confidence * Rehearsal * Physical Action * Group Coordination * Precise Attack * Economy * Brevity * Punch * Instinct * Grace * Effortless Skill * Music * Spectacle * Contrast * Comedy * Getting and Holding Attention * Types of Audiences * and more!

-          Coming Soon!

Book Two of the Fitzkee Trilogy:

THE TRICK BRAIN (out of print)

The Trick Brain was created as a tool to help magicians develop new tricks. It teaches you how to create the mechanics of an effect with the understanding that how an effect is accomplished is not as important as the effect itself.

The Trick Brain is no mere book of tricks. It incorporates one of the most amazing ideas ever developed in magic. Dariel Fitzkee reduces all magic tricks to only 19 general, basic effects. Then he examines all the possible ways of combining any of these effects. He shows how to develop new tricks from old and how to evolve new plots and methods.

Then, you are introduced to The Trick Brain--an ingenious system, devised by Fitzkee, that actually

creates new effects...

tells you what you will need to develop...

actual things to use--and finally...

how to do the trick--even suggesting alternate methods!

Use this astounding system to create original tricks and original shows, or use it to revise old tricks. Reclaim magic props you no longer use. All of this is contained in a beautifully printed, 316 page hardbound volume.

Look for a modern update to the trick brain coming soon.

-          Coming Soon!

 Book Three of the Fitzkee Trilogy:

MAGIC BY MISDIRECTION

An Extended Explanation of the Magician's Application of the Psychology of Deception.

Magic By Misdirection applies the psychology of deception to the art of magic. The finest minds of magic have recognized it an important and monumental work on the subject.  It makes clear the psychological devices and methods you can use to deceive your audience:

Disguise

Attention Control

Simulation

Dissimulation

Interpretation

Maneuver

Pretense

Ruse

Anticipation

Diversion

Monotony

Premature Consummation

Confusion

Suggestion... and others!

Fitzkee supplies practical examples in the form of tricks incorporating and utilizing these principles.