Teardrop
After fifteen years of performing magic and mentalism, and being guided by mentors who represent some of the top names in the industry, Don has decided to release his first contribution to the magical fraternity. These are the special gems from his notebook, which has remained top secret...until now...Here Don explains the contents, in his own words:
(1) The Parking Lot Act:
A gaggle of people are congregated outside a bookstore in the parking lot. A section of the bookstore is chosen, as is the aisle and book and page. A "spectator" then takes this info, freely chosen by your parking lot (non stooged) participants and pulls a book off of a shelf, based on his or her directions, and memorizes a word. When that person exits the store with that word in mind they can speak it out loud or keep it to themself. That person is given the appropriate fundage to open the adjacent newspaper machine. The chosen word is seen to be circled in permanent red ink.
(2) Card Through Person:
Just what it sounds like.
(3) Rapport Apport.
A card trick. Yep. Two people think of the same card and then are brought to a breathtaking moment of revelation.A person thinks of a time. They then hold out their hand as though they were standing in the middle of a clock. You guide them in circles to discern the time and then the hour. This is not muscle reading. Also, as with anything in this book, it works 100% of the time.
(5) Australia:
A very personal event that will bring your audience members to tears. I promise you this. But you do need to know the BCS or at least the Si Stebbins or 8 Kings to pull this off.
(6) The Pirate Sceance:
Jim Callahan graciously helped me with this one. Does not have to be a pirate I suppose, but you will use mass hallucination and induce everyone in your audience into believing that they were witnesses to a greusome murder scene from over a hundred years before they were born. So why not use a pirate?
(7) Teardrop:
I am not going to say anything about this part. It is the one contribution that I have to give that I am confident will revolutionize mentalism from now on.
(8) Cat's Eye:
Read an (any) animal's mind. This will freak your host or hostess out!
Some Reviews:
"These are real world workers he has developed with mentorship from big name mentalist and magicians. It would seem he is an excellent mentee in that he created some excellent wonderful pieces... From updating classics with fresh new twists (Corinda on Redbull level)... to really wild bits (Card through Person!! Yeah!)... to teaching you the power of the Teardrop... or how to add an emotional punch under your control... using techniques from other areas of the dramatic arts... It is here!!!"--Bruce Ballon
"Excellent book with some good routines inside"--Riley G. Matthews
"I'm seriously impressed with your presentational approaches to the art of Mentalism as offered in Teardrop. These are great ideas...and every effect is worthy of consideration for any performer. I'm also seriously humbled that you included my name on your list of Thanks. So thank you for putting me on your 'short list'. I was truly moved by the storyline behind 'Australia' and would enjoy seeing you expound with effect proposals for the Teardrop effect. Providing the actor's method for crying-on-demand is genius and I can't wait to see how you will exploit this idea further. For a first time effort, you've knocked this one out of the ballpark. You have done a great job with this manuscript."--Mick Ayres
"Cat's Eye is brilliant and I wish I would have thought of it!"--Nathan Pain
"I received this late last night (2:30AM) and immediately digested it. After finishing - I found myself lying in bed silently...thinking about all of the possibilities this could bring not only to mentalism and performance - but to theatre. I lie there smiling with my brain buzzing with all of these positive vibes of energy coming from a talented little performer from Florida....... I didn't sleep until almost 5AM. I am a professional actor finishing my senior year at Kent State University; I know I don't have a lot of years under my belt in terms of experience... but all of these pieces gave me something to really connect to (both in terms of method as well as physical emotion and motivation.) And I know my audiences would respect that due connection to them. This is really stuff that is going to make your spectators cry. No hype here. We should all support Don Theo. Enough of that support now will nourish a very creative mind in the future. A future I would like to see a lot more from".--Justin Gentry
"Love it. Animal Reading is gonna be great fun. Thank you so much for putting this together for the mentalist community. Some very nice effects. I think the most challenging will be learning to 'drop a tear', but I'll give it a go. Many congrats."--Derek Heron
"I have this, I've read it and I will certainly use some of it. Really great stuff! I highly recommend it."--ALEXANDRE
"This is excellent. Teardrop is so, so touching and a great idea. Thanks DT3"--Aidan Rolinson-Rainford
"We highly recommends these do-able gems."--Thomas Hastings
"Really good stuff! Thanks so much for sharing with all of us. I really like the presentation and script for Australia; moving stuff! You're a clever guy (no surprise to any of us here). Seriously, all VERY interesting and workable ideas. Well done."--Sean Waters
"Teardrop is a beautiful, sensitive eBook. It was nothing that I had expected…. Just reading it through put me in a different state of mind - quiet, peaceful, and emotionally moved. It was all about presentation - and it even worked on me just by reading about it! I want to emphasize how this eBook keeps giving and giving, through Don's supplements and through his continuing personal touch in his emails. 'Tis truly a beautiful thing. Thanks, Don."--Arnon Sincoff
"This is the kind of project that really makes me smile. Great Gratitude—Brad “Scarnecky” Gordon
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Teardrop is available for $20.00 USD via paypal to dontheo3@gmail.com
Note that this book is not for amateurs or beginners, but rather those somewhat versed in the art. One needs at least to have knowledge of the two "major" texts in mentalism literature.