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Baroness Elisa (www.baronesselisa.com) is performing with
“Synergy” on the luxury Fred Olsen cruise liner Braemer in
Trosmo, Norway on Thursday, May 26th . “Elegant, but not stuffy”
best describes the atmosphere on board Braemar which came into
service in 2001. At 19,089 tons and with 376 well-appointed
cabins and suites, Braemar upholds the Fred Olsen tradition of
small-ship intimacy without compromising on personal space.

On board, the Baroness’ performance is small and intimate before
returning to the United States for a charitable event in South
Florida later this summer. Baroness Elisa defines the best in
cabaret theater and South Florida audiences are invited support
the leading Gay and Lesbian organization, Compass,in a
spectacular charity fundraiser in Delray Beach on Sunday, August
7th.

Compass, Inc. (www.compassglcc.com), is the Palm Beach County
gay and lesbian community center dedicated to promoting pride,
diversity, and public awareness of, for, and by Palm Beach
County’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) residents
and visitors. Compass provides social services and support for
gay youth and gay families. Compass also offers a clean, safe
meeting space for a variety of national, state, and local
organizations as well as social, service, support and athletic
groups that meet the diverse interests of the county’s LGBT
people. Compass is the largest LGBT community center in the
Southeast United States and is the seventh largest in the nation
in budget size, staff size and diversity of funded programs.

Great musical theater songs the Baroness has chosen for this
charity theatrical event are dramatically intense, touching,
witty, ironic, and just plain charming. Baroness Elisa, who has
performed on world stages throughout Europe and Australia,
noted, “It is an honor and privilege to perform for this noble
and important cause”. The intimate three hundred seat Crest
Theatre in Delray Beach provides a perfect theater venue where
the Baroness Elisa’s charisma and audience connection can
thrive. The Crest Theatre is located at the historic Old School
Square, 51 North Swinton Ave., in downtown Delray Beach. Theater
reviewers raved about the Baroness’ show: “The slender
red-headed ingénue melts the hearts of audiences. She is in
every sense of the word a beautiful woman, earthy, gentle, and
comfortable with herself, and in touch with her audience. The
Baroness is joined her talented musical director, husband, and
Baron, Peter Gerolymatos on the piano.” Ticket prices are
affordably priced at $50 and may be purchased on the internet
through Ticketweb at www.ticketweb.com or by calling
866-468-7630.

Contact Information: Daniel Rowe Drowe@baronesselisa.com

Crest Theatre Media Contact: Melissa Carter
mcarter@oldschool.org 561-243-7922

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Magicians have their secrets but they won’t tell. It’s a sworn
oath for magicians not to tell the audience how a trick is done.
There are 3 secrets though that they’ve shared all throughout
the years. Here are their 3 secrets.

The first secret is that some tricks are done through sleight of
hand. These are ways with which they skillfully hide an object
and make it reappear on another hand. New magicians hide things
up their sleeves. Those are old tricks and very few used them
now.

Sleights of hand require a lot of practice to master. Beginners
of magic use specially created gimmicks to create the illusion.
Professional magicians make use of their impressive sleight of
hand. It requires a lot of time, patience and hand coordination
to fully understand and do.

Another secret is the art of misdirection. See this blank paper?
And as audience looks at the blank paper, he is carefully
getting another piece with his other hand. This is misdirection.
Another type of misdirection is the kind that doesn’t let the
audience see what’s really causing the tricks. You might have
seen that a magician has a lot of assistants who also do
incredible stuff, but what you didn’t know is that they are
helping the magician perform the magic just with their presence.

Another kind of misdirection is the appropriate use of words.
For example, a magician will tell you to look at the ‘empty’
box. We tend to look at the box as empty just because he said
it. This causes our mind to wonder when the magician gets a
rabbit out of it.

Misdirection takes a lot of practice and lots of time in
planning. It requires body coordination (one body doing
something while the other is doing another thing) and quick
thinking. Misdirection is an art and magicians are proud of it.

Another secret is their patter or a magician’s constant talk.
Misdirection is achieved mostly because of patter. The magician
will ask you to look at his right hand and as you are looking,
you won’t notice what his left hand is doing. This is a really
clever way to achieve the illusion that what happens next
becomes so magical with the wink of an eye.

Patter usually takes the form of a story, where a magician will
tell you of something that happened to him someday. Sometimes
it’s so funny that we actually forget to look at what their
hands are doing or what their assistants are giving them.

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