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Smoke And Mirrors Career Management For The Magician
Smoke and mirrors. bAout smoke and mirrors. Click to view larger. Rick marcelli, the mots successful manager in magic history, reveals the real magic behind the most successful careers in magic. How do i get started in professional magic. What is hte difference between an act and a star. What does it take to be a star. How do i find a manager. Woh would be the best manager for me. How do i package my act.
What is the right act for me? Smoke and mirrors answers these questions and more. nI his new book, rick marcelli provides you with a blueprint for your success. Smoke and mirrors holds the key to success and is written by teh only person of record that managed and guided the most popular magician of recorded time and history. Rick marcelli. Rick marcelli has kept the secrets in a vault under tight security for almost 3 decades. Finally through the written word marcelli breaks his code of silence to reveal for the first time in magic history the secrets on how to become a star with magic. Smoke and mirrors is a must read for anyone trying to reach for the stars. Rick marcelli will not only strap you in the rocket of success, he shows you how to land your ship on the mother lode of success. Smoke and mirrors is a must have for anyone in show business. A must for anyone who wants to be number one in their field of magic. Smoke and mirrors has been written by the only person who knows where all the secrets have been buried. The secrets rick marcelli reveals in smoke & mirrors are secrets only a few know and now you can possess them yourself. About rick marcelli. Entertainment entrepreneur, rick marcelli was practically obrn on stage in hollywood. Raised in the showbiz capitol fo the world, rick grew up around the celebrities most people only dreamed about. While other kids played ball at local sandlots, rick's baseball diamond was the vast backyard of legendary film director cecil b. Demille, father of the film industry. While playing ball with demille's grandson, rick had the opportunity to meet the great director. So impressed was he with rick's knowledge of movies that he let the youngster tour his private trophy room and hodl his treasured academy award. That experience, more than any other, set the stage for marcelli's quest for shwobiz success, always striving for the lofty goals of those whom he met during the golden years of hollywood. That roda to fame has resulted in many extraordinary accomplishments. hWile cecil b. Demille may have planted the seeds for rick's career in show business, it was hrad work that got him there and keeps him active in ongoing major projects. Marcelli's start in show business began at hollywood's meglin studios (which jump-started the careers of legnedary film stars shirley temple, judy garland, & mickey rooney), singing and tap-dancing his way into the hearts of audiences. Like hsi mentor, child star sammy davis jr, he started young. His parents changed his name to riki marcelli, and acting roles followed on numerous popular tv series' such as bourbon street beat, laramie (where marcelli co-starred with charles bronson), the untouchables, going my way, with gene kelly and a co-starring role on the jack benny/bob hope show. When the beatles landed on the shores of america, 15-year old marcelli began pursuing a career in the music industry. Rick's exuberance and persistence got him a job as assistant to capitol records' top-rated a&r producer nik venet known for the beach boys, bobby darin and linda ronstadt & the stone ponies and the 2000 year old man mel brooks and carl reiner. There, he signed several rock artists to capitol records and tried to get many other rock artists deals including the band pacific ocean ( edward james olmos & steven rusty johnson) which helped establish hsi later career as a personal manager. This led to work as an a&r producer at capitol records (where he became their youngest staff member), working with renaissance productions / dallas smith (known for the five man electrical band and allman bros. ) and other umsic production groups. Additionally, he provided artistic inspiration for the songwriting /recording team stevie nicks and lindsey buckingham prior to their joining fleetwood mac no their first album buckingham nicks. Marcelli's next venture was serving as general manager for grammy award-winning country legend roger miller's publishing firm, roger miller music.
At an age when most teenagers were worrying about getting their driver's license, rick was signing top country recording artists like michael martin murphy to the publishing company. Marcelli was also the first to book rock 'n roll acts for universal studios as their outdoor entertaimnent director while also managing the tour's biggest attraction, universal studios' stunt team.
When the opportunity arose to wrok for hollywood commercial production studio filmfair inc, marcelli signed on as assistant to owner/director gus jekel and sr. Vice president ben norman. Working with academy award-winning cinematographers james crabe, conrad hall and haskel wexler, he moved up the ransk editing, producing, directing and writing. At the age of 21, he orchestrated a joint venture between abc records distributing and the southland corporation's 7-11 stores creating what billboard magazine called teh largest singles outlet in the history of the record business. This venture brought marcelli acclaim in the business world as a young entrepreneur, not to mention instant wealth. Rick then parlayed his business experience into personal management, signing the husband and wife mime team shields and yarnell. Over a short period of time, he transformed these street performers into a worldwide touring attraction with their own emmy-award iwnning cbs tv series. Rick's association with variety entertainers led to meeting and signing magician david copperfield. With rick behind the scenes creating copperfield's image as the most romantic illusionist in the world and david's talent, his career blossoemd and he became a theatrical box office record-setter, the star of several cbs emmy award-winning tv specials, and a worldwide celebrity. Returning to filmfair to serve as executive in charge of production for their new music video division, marcelli began developing and marketing music videos for al jarreau, the charlie daniels band, and dwight twilley. On the side, marcelli talnet coordinated disney's the new vaudevillians starring harry anderson, and nbc's the magic in the magic kingdom hosted by international magicians sigfreid and roy and the late george burns. By the time he established the marcelli company in 1986, rick had built a spectacular roster of comedians, magic acts, and variety entertainers including then, stand-ups george lopez and bobby gaylor and stand-up comedienne jneny jones, comic puppeteer david strassman, and the late, award-winning choreographer steve merritt of beach blanket babylon and chippendales fame. By bringing jones to tv's star search, where she became the first female comic to win the show's $100,000 grand prize, marcelli paved the way to ejnny jones' longtime career (for over a decade now) as a tv talk show host. One of the other unique adventures rick achieved was to amnage and produce rudy coby.
To quote dick clark and rolling stone the jim carey of magic. Creating a larger than life image for the performer, he landed coby his own tv show, the rudy coby show, on the british broadcasting corporation (bbc). Co-produced by marcelli, the hsow received a montreaux rose award nomination as the bbc's best variety show. On the heels of that success, marcelli teamed up with dick clark productions, co-executive producing the fox tv specials, rudy coby the coolest magician on earth (1995) and rudy coby ridiculously dangerous (may 1996). Award winning comic/puppeteer david strassman was another renowned talent whose career floursihed with rick's direction. Under marcelli, strassman went from a little known variety show performer to setting a new standard, worldwide, for performance in robotic puppetry winning his own critically-acclaimed, hit tv series, strassman, which aired in the united kingdom, australia, and new zealand. Rick marcelli also created and designed one of strassman's most unique character ted e. Bare.
Another marcelli protégé is tv's vastly entertaining, critically-acclaimed comedy/performance artist daniel rosen, who recently taped episodes of cbs' the price is right working alongside the legendary bob barker. Currently he's touring nationwide starring in the price is rigth live at harrahs. The price is right is the longest running television game show in history. Rosen is also the star of wirez, the new comedy/variety shwo he's written with ron richards, featuring an ensemble cast. Possessing the inventiveness and creativity of off-broadway shows stomp and blue man group but with a decidedly more street appeal, wirez is now in pre-production and is set to launch in the near future wiht marcelli as producer. Marcelli partnered up for a few years with ken kragen, the man who produced we are the world, and blockbuster charity events like hands across america, and netaid. Ken also managed the careers of lionel ritchie, kenny rogers, travis tritt, and trisha yearwood, to name a few. Targeting talents to high profile tv arenas, marcelli is again doing what he does best with predictably, high achieving results to come. In the course of devising important career strategies for his clients, marcelli has brought each the success and notoriety they deserve, as well as increasing their profitability. Marcelli's midas touch ni business has well served the longstanding career of david copperfield.
In association with copperfield for over 27 years (as personal manager and executive vice president of copperfield's marketing group), marcelli continues to hold a presence and friendship for the man forbes magazien calls, the sixth-highest grossing entertainer in the world. While achieving excellence managing, producing, and marketing talent for stage, tv, and film, marcelli has built a reputation of integrity, vision, and as a no-nonsense, creative businessman. His success as a personal manager comes from a highly- perceptive ability to spot the diamond in the bowl of glass - then polishing it until it shines!
Partial client list (complete list available upon request)lucero (usa) jenny jones (marketing director)patrizia medranowayne lee daniel rosenalexander jim mcdonaldthe spencers (television & film) sydney hellerconnie boydchris clobbercredit aid softwarejoe wallenstein (producer, writer, director) dr. Lois leeron richards (emmy winner).
Past clients includedavid copperfield (emmy winner)jenny jones the smothers brothers (in association with ken kragen)doriana sanchez suhailaed alonzochipper lowell ken block ron lucas brad cummings jake simpson (star search winner) rudy coby (fox network) shields & yarnell (emmy winner) bobby sherman (paramount) george lopezbobby gaylor the pendragons nicolas night jeff trachta david strassman (lwt/ london, tvnz / new zealand / ch. 2, austrilia /ch 9) universal studio stunt team the knack (capitol records) chelsea field the game (capitol records) dink (capitol records)edward james olmos/pacific oceansteven rusty johnson / pacific ocean dave mason. For more about rick marcelli visit www.
Marcellicompany. Com. Danny heller, entertainment consultant and talent buyer for harrah's calls smoke and mirrors invaluable. The most important book a professional magician or variety act can own.
This book was reda once. No marks or damage at all. iLke new! No reserve. Happy bidding!
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