Danny Razzoo came to St Paul’s on February 20th to entertain and amaze us with his magic tricks, using mainly numbers and playing cards.
Danny particularly enjoys ‘mathemagic’ in which he uses his excellent knowledge of mathematics (as a former teacher of) to bemuse his audience. Some of his tricks employ straightforward maths and algebra (can algebra ever be straightforward? I hear some of you thinking!). Some of the audience may even remember the significance of these numbers: 10 29 / 18 43.
Time after time he made our jaws drop as he did complicated things with packs of cards and then showed that he had predicted exactly the one which a random audience member had chosen.
Danny passed round a book of some 400 pages and asked audience members to choose a page, read the first three words … and then proceeded to tell us how many paragraphs there were on that page and how many lines in each. He even asked us to choose a word – and guessed it correctly (though of course “guessed” is not al all the appropriate word here!). How did he do it??!!
Danny is of course none other than Cliff Daniel, a regular member of MIRTH. So it was no real surprise to us to learn that he had once travelled on an overnight train from Bangkok to Shanghai, sharing the compartment with three nuns. He showed them some close-up magic…which caused so much laughter that other passengers came towards the compartment to see what was happening!!!
Danny enjoys performing for groups of people around the country, so if you are looking for such an entertainer, then just get in touch through MIRTH.
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