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Professional Resource and Script Books
Kid Show Ventriloquism by Mark Wade - This is THE resource that YOU need for entertaining children! Kid Show expert Mark Wade, takes you back stage and explains in detail the tricks of the trade! Mark covers everything from preparing and presenting the show to promoting and marketing your kidshows. As an added bonus, Mark has included audience tested routines! A lifetime of experience is presented in this book. 132 pages, including many photos and illustrations. This is the new paperback edition. The ONLY book of its kind! $14.95 Mastering and Marketing Your Performance - Learn how to create dynamic character style (for yourself and your puppet), prepare powerful scripts that are uniquely clever. Learn the secrets of successful marketing; from setting up an office to targeting and reaching potential clients. The author, Judy Buch, is a Certified Speaking Professional who uses her ventriloquist skills to capture her market of corporations, professional associations, schools, and churches. Now she shares her proven methods from which you also can achieve career success as a performer! Includes 7 audience tested dialogues! 261 pgs, Paperback. Price $17.00 Adventures in The Vent Trade - Over 50 pages of practical tips, hints and “Tools for Survival” for the working ventriloquist or anyone considering ventriloquism as a full or part time career. To be or not be a Pro? Equipment, sound advice, wardrobe, prop ideas, packing and travel, the performance “venue”, client relations, setting goals and more. Price $7.00 Puppets, Props, And Performance - Tips, ideas and plans to enhance your puppets, vent figures and performances. If you can cut wood, drill a hole, turn a screw, bend wire, sew a seam or use glue, you’ll love this section of the book. Sections 2 and 3 contain prop ideas and suggested routines to develop your programs. $7.00 It Ain't Broadway - The Art of Performing for Senior Citizens - This new performer’s manual explains the importance of ventriloquist shows performed for the senior audience. Everything is dicused from the secrets of success to the dangerous pitfalls and how they may be avoided. How to best prepare for the various types of senior audiences; how to setup for greatest communication with the audience; ways to present your show most effectively; ways to deal with interruptions and possible emergencies; show endings and exits. Written from the professional experience of Rick Berger, illustrated by Alex Howell. Tips on selling your show to the senior markets are also included. Price $7.00 Audience Participation - by Dale BrownDale Brown, with the help of a number of professional performers, has compiled a wonderful selection of ideas that are tested and proven. The audience loves to be a part of the show, and nothing wins them over more quickly. Actual comedy ideas are included. Ventriloquist entertainment at its best! Price $6.00 Making It Up As You Go - by Dale BrownNo performer should be without this manual discussing the art of AD-LIBBING! Why it is so important for the ventriloquist. How to find ad-libs (with many samples). How to get the timing perfect. Ad-libbing with children. How to avoid problems. There’s a funny section of remarks for unexpected interruptions. Price $6.00 If the String Breaks - and even if it doesn’t! Yes, some of the ideas in this creative book are just TOO GOOD to be saved for an unlikely emergency! Use them anytime to add novelty and comedy to the act. Some great comic closings. By Dave Castle. Price $5.00 Conquering Stage Fright - So, we went to several professional ventriloquists and asked their advice. In this book you'll find their comments. The cause and cure for stage fright; how to chase away the "butterflies" and calm the jitters! Time tested remedies that work! Price $4.00 On Stage - Chapter titles include: Showmanship, Audience Participation, How to Hold Your Audience’s Attention, The Psychology of Being Remembered, Professional Etiquette, Memorizing Your Act, Sound Systems, etc. Polish your act into a professional presentation. Price $5.00 |
