Creating a Positive Impact on Your Audience Whenever you go out to do a show, do you ever think about how you are creating a positive impact on your audience? If you’re like many kids entertainers, probably not. And it’s understandable. More often than not, there are more pressing, more practical matters to focus on,…

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Colin Underwood on Creating Characters: Create a Character Brief

Part 4 of the 10 Essential Techniques That Professional Kids Entertainers Do Not Share In my previous article, I talked about how you can utilize the action-reaction technique to enhance your character. Now we’ll move on to what can help you if you’re planning to put on a character show together: a character brief.

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Colin Underwood discusses the action/reaction technique kids entertainers can use in their performance

Part 3 of the 10 Essential Techniques That Kids Entertainer Professionals Do Not Share Last time we talked about how to add suspense to your act. (Have you applied the tips?) Now in this article, we’ll look into one of the most beneficial methods you can use to enhance your character—the action/reaction technique.

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John Kimmons talks with Peter Aubery about magic, ventriloquism, and kids entertaining. In the image, Kimmons is gasping while looking at his blue puppet with bushy eyebrows

Welcome to the third instalment of this series of interviews that originally appeared in Rubber Chicken magazine. Editor and publisher Peter Aubery has made them available for the Kids Entertainer Hub audience. In this series, Peter Aubery picks the minds of kids entertainers Charlie Frye, Jimmy Carlo, Bill Abbott, Michael Diamond, Paul Daniels, and Sylvester…

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Magician and kids entertainer Brian Richards is back with Part 3 of his Wizdom for Wizards series. The image shows a magician in a suit and hat with his back to the reader.

In my last post, we talked about how important it is to embrace who you are to differentiate yourself from your competition. Now we’ll go into something totally different, and I’ll start things off with a gift.

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