Close-up
Performed from a table or strolling. Works well for hospitality settings or small gatherings. Business or in-home entertaining. Tim's skill with cards is recognized as one of the best in the business
Stand-up
Performed for groups from 5 and up. This style of work is well suited for after banquet time. It can include business executives which garners great reactions.
Pantomime
Tim's specialty act is a character named Skilldini. Skilldini is a highly accomplished sleight of hand performer with one problem, he's often not in control. How can such a sharp dressed magician be so unaware. Part Oliver Hardy and part Houdini, this act is original in concept and has won several awards.
Review of Skilldini act from Mark Stevens.
Saturday night featured a banquet. Guest dined on succulent tender beef medallions and breast of chicken with rosemary and light wine sauce, roasted potatoes and steamed carrots and green beans. Desert was "snicker cheese cake" oh yea... It was a hit. The food was fantastic!
After dinner the Saturday night show started with Tim Wright as his "SKILLDINI" character. This is a hilarious, well thought out performance that combines magic and comedy both together and separately. What I mean is Tim has this surreal moment in this act where an announcer states, "At this point in the program SKILLDINI will take a short break..." Skilldini sits in a chair and all eyes are on him waiting an watching to see what his next move will be, and what's funny is for about 2 minutes other then a little fidgeting, and attempt to smoke during his break, that's it! Then the announcer states, something like, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome back, the Magical Stylings of Skilldini" at which point Skilldini quickly gets up and starts the show again.
In text, this may not sound funny, but there is a surreal comedy to it (this is what I mean by magic and comedy are combined but also featured separately), that works! Imagine the fine-tuning necessary to pull this type of comedic performance off, and do so in a manner that works!
As a graduate of the Chavez School of Magic, Tim is everything I had heard about and then some. Manipulations, no problem - he does a wonderful Fakini ball version that is part juggling, magic, and awesome dexterity, and the balls never leave his hand. Imagine contact juggling, but in this case, he does a hilarious move after he has produced all four Fakini balls, as he goes to grab one to place it in the hat, in so doing he also adds another one. This is repeated. Imagine this “cat and mouse” game, each time he tries to reduce one ball another one magically appears. The more frustrated and faster he goes, the faster this continues to happen allowing for a visual treat that also commands his talent as a manipulator. This should be the Chavez commercial to get new students enrolled – it’s that powerful!
Of course for me, I couldn't wait to see Tim Wright perform the Zombie. I had never seen him perform before, and am familiar with his tape that we sell. What a treat! What phenomenal moves and totally innovative thinking he has incorporated with this classic. I had one of those epiphanies. Once again, I realized how wrong the movement for NEW-NEW products is. I too, as a magic dealer get trapped into that over and over. Yet, here is a classic effect, the “Zombie” that I passed by in favor of the new trick of the month. In Tim's hands, I realized it's not what you do, but how you do it! Watching him perform the Zombie made me commit to incorporating in my shows. Thanks Tim for a wonderful performance and a refresher that I needed.
Tim Wright
tim@skilldini.com
home 419.394.8774
cell 419.733.2865