Mel Mellers - The Travelling Trickster (eBook)

With his hilariously sharp yet playful put down lines and quirky comedy plots, Mel Mellers has rightly established himself as one of the nation's favorites stand up performers. Equally at home in front of lay people or a theatre full of magicians, Mel's individual performance style, which has been honed over many years as a pro and through countless performances all over the world, is a delight to experience.

Now you can go behind the scenes with this truly inspiring performer and learn how you too can become a topflight entertainer. Mel gives freely of his advice on all aspects of performance, including audience management, misdirection, how to put an act together, creativity, the 6 rules of comedy, practicing, hecklers and entertaining children and families. He shares with you scores of hilarious one liner covering all manner of performing situations that you will be able to use in your shows too. Plus, he gives full details of over 50 of his feature routines and ideas, most of which are simple to do, and which come with Mel's presentations and patter lines.

Mel Mellers is one of magic's real larger-than-life characters, and this book will also explain some of his background, give you various anecdotes from his closest friends in magic about the antics that Mel has got up to over the years, and will provide you with a thoroughly entertaining and instructive read.