{"id":6127,"date":"2022-02-09T17:10:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicstore102.one\/product\/levent-ultimate-guide-to-misers-dream-all-3-volumes\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T15:11:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T08:11:48","slug":"levent-ultimate-guide-to-misers-dream-all-3-volumes","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/magicstore102.one\/?product=levent-ultimate-guide-to-misers-dream-all-3-volumes","title":{"rendered":"Levent \u2013 Ultimate Guide to Miser\u00b4s Dream ( 3 Vol , Instant Download )"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tab-description\" class=\"woocommerce-Tabs-panel woocommerce-Tabs-panel--description panel entry-content wc-tab\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-title-description\">\n<div class=\"rll-youtube-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OfItwx0-O-M\" data-id=\"OfItwx0-O-M\" data-query=\"start=4&amp;feature=oembed\"><\/div>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Misers Dream Magic Trick by Levent\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OfItwx0-O-M?start=4&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div id=\"header_layer\">\n<div id=\"id1\" class=\"style_SkipStroke shape-with-text\">\n<div class=\"text-content style_External_630_53\">\n<div class=\"style\">\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\">Levent\u2019s \u201cUltimate Guide to The Miser\u2019s Dream\u201d DVDs<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\">Everything you ever wanted to know about this classic stage magic effect!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"body_layer\">\n<div id=\"id10\" class=\"style_SkipStroke_2 shape-with-text\">\n<div class=\"text-content graphic_textbox_layout_style_default_External_673_579\">\n<div class=\"graphic_textbox_layout_style_default\">\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph_style_4\">\n<p>This monumental three-DVD set will teach you the Miser\u2019s Dream routines of the greats of magic: Al Flosso, T. Nelson Downs, Roy Benson, Charlie Miller, Paul Potassy, and many more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In these videos, Levent gives you step-by-step instructions for all of the sleights you need to know to perform this classic stage magic effect.\u00a0 The lessons range from the most simple and basic moves to the complex and difficult never-before-revealed secrets of the masters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This DVD collection is the most complete work available on the many secret gimmicks and devices used for The Miser\u2019s Dream, as well as many bits of business that have made this effect a commercial classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As a bonus, Levent teaches you all the secrets of his personal Miser\u2019s Dream routine.\u00a0 This single routine is a master class on creativity and the construction of professional-level secret magic apparatus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Levent\u2019s \u201cULTIMATE GUIDE TO THE MISER\u2019S DREAM\u201d\u00a0 is over FIVE HOURS LONG and features a menu system that will allow you to easily navigate the discs and find any sleight, prop or routine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_5\">Complete set of three DVDs for only<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_5\">$59.95 plus Postage &amp; Handling<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tinyText\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"id12\" class=\"style_SkipStroke_2 shape-with-text\">\n<div class=\"text-content graphic_textbox_layout_style_default_External_648_1780\">\n<div class=\"graphic_textbox_layout_style_default\">\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\"><span class=\"style_1\">From the Review in Genii Magazine August 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\">Levent\u2019s self-published collection on the history and performance of the Miser\u2019s Dream is an easy recommendation\u2026the detailed and far-ranging content of these three discs make this collection a major contribution to the fraternity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\">The first disc begins with an examination of the physical properties involved in the act, particularly the coins.\u00a0 Levent describes and demonstrates how various performers have prepared coins with deep milling, sanded details, flesh-colored camouflage, and even plastic coatings to reduce talking.\u00a0 He continues with examinations of various holders and gimmicks, them moves into a discussion of the different kinds of pails.\u00a0 This is followed by a detailed tutorial on the sleight-of-hand moves used by many performers of this routine.\u00a0 Of particular note are the Allan Shaw production, a favorite move of Charlie Miller\u2019s, and Roy Benson\u2019s multiple coin vanish, \u201cBanished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\">The focus of the second disc is on the construction of the routines of notable performers of the past.\u00a0 After examining routines and sequences devised by Robert Houdin, Sachs, Carl Herrmann, and Kellar, Levent spends a large part of this disc detailing the techniques of coin conjuror T. Nelson Downs.\u00a0 Charlie Miller\u2019s famous routine then takes center stage, followed by additional ideas from Frakson, Potassy, and Hugard.\u00a0 The climax of the disc, though, is the meticulous examination of Al Flosso\u2019s universally celebrated comedy routine.\u00a0 The routines contain more than just moves and sequences; pay attention to learn rules of misdirection, the most deceptive ways to palm coins out of your pockets, and fine working points such as how to tip the pail to ensure that the coin you need to retrieve is properly placed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\">The final disc opens with some additional routines from Benson, but this last DVD is devoted to a complete explanation of Levent\u2019s own routine.\u00a0 This routine, a comedy routine that plays for huge audiences and includes a host of visual gags and unusual props, is completely practical\u2026Most performers think of the miser\u2019s dream as a minimalist trick at its core \u2013 coins, perhaps a wand, and a pail \u2013 all ungaffed, if you\u2019re a purist.\u00a0 (After all, many of the great historical routines described on the second disc require only those essential elements.)\u00a0 Levent has broken through nearly every imaginable wall with regard to his thinking on this routine.\u00a0 His routine builds on multiple methods, of course, canceling out whatever suspicions his audience may conceive as he performs.\u00a0 But that is only the beginning.\u00a0 Listening to Levent describe the conditions and situations that led to the formation of his routine is a lesson in problem solving.\u00a0 Levent\u2019s ultimate solutions to his problems has led him to the creation of a routine that is far more intricate, proppy and gimmicky than traditional approaches, but it plays extremely well and creates a completely magical effect on his large audiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\">The real value of this set is not in the premise that you as a buyer will build this apparatus and perform this exact routine; the value lies in the detailed explanations of everything leading up to this routine and in what is learned from Levent\u2019s process of developing his answer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\">Levent is one of those rare and valuable magicians who is truly as much a scholar as he is a performer.\u00a0 His instruction is peppered with readings and quotes from the masters.\u00a0 His book on the magic of Roy Benson is one of the greatest additions to the literature in the past decade if not longer.\u00a0 The quantity of information and the clarity of Levent\u2019s instruction are worth much more than the asking price.\u00a0 If you plan to perform the Miser\u2019s Dream, or if you are intrigued by the history of the routine, or if you are simply interested in a wide range of coin productions and vanishes that can be performed while standing, then you need this collection.\u00a0 This is truly a master class on the subject of the Miser\u2019s Dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\"><span class=\"style_1\">From the Review in MAGIC Magazine July 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\">The word \u201cultimate\u201d gets naively kicked around and cynically slapped on magic tricks and DVDs far too often. Levent\u2019s Ultimate Guide to the Misers dream, a three-disc set comprising more than five hours of material, is one of the few products I can think of that just might deserve the adjective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\">Levent is a performer, creator, collector, writer, and historian.\u00a0 His books and products are always well produced, informative, and thoroughly researched. This set is no exception. An enormous amount of information is given here, from tiny mechanical details to simple but profound thoughts such as \u201cThe Miser\u2019s Dream is about constant changing methods\u201d and \u201cThe most important thing in the Miser\u2019s Dream is the sound; if there isn\u2019t sound, there isn\u2019t a magic trick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\">The first video begins with a discussion of the various types of coins one can use, and the ways they can be prepared by milling, sanding, drilling, and gluing, as well as a very easy way to treat them so they don\u2019t make noise when rubbed together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\">Then, Levent displays various coin holders, droppers, and catchers. As one would hope, he doesn\u2019t merely demonstrate then; he offers handy tips about how best to use them. An in-depth discussion of pails, buckets, and hats follows before he moves on to sleight-of-hand issues. In this section, he discusses and demonstrates nine kinds of palms, about a dozen different stage coin productions, and various techniques for producing coins from audience members\u2019 clothes, ears, etc. Also demonstrated are some passes and vanishes, including Roy Benson\u2019s Banished and several T. Nelson Downs moves, as well as coin rolls and flourishes and various performers\u2019 philosophies about timing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\">This would seem like a fairly complete overview of the classic effect, and this is only the first disc. On the second video, Levent puts on his historian-detective hat and discusses the routines of Robert-Houdin, Carl Herrmann, Harry Kellar, Edwin Sachs, Charlie Miller, and Paul Potassy. Levent also demonstrates various moves, ploys, subtleties, gags, bits of business, finales, and gambits from Glenn Harrison, Jose Frakson, A.J. Cantu, Jean Hugard, Roy Benson, and Tommy Martin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\">But the two highlights of the second disc are the in-depth analyses of the classic, influential routine of Al Flosso and T. Nelson Downs. Levent reconstructed Downs\u2019 routine from Downs\u2019 own book Modern Coin Manipulation, as well as writings in Bobo, Magic Without Apparatus, The Sphinx Golden Jubilee of Magic and Bertram on Sleight of Hand. Did you know that Downs did a comedy act with a lot of jokes, gags, and verbal humor? I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\">On disc three, Levent demonstrates Roy Benson\u2019s work on the effect, including the interesting idea of performing with a clear glass pail. And after that, Levent launches into his own extensive work on the subject. He begins with performance footage of his own comedic yet magical routine, which features many jokes and sight gags. Levent\u2019s routine takes place almost entirely in the audience, and it is an approach he adopted to diverge from Al Flosso\u2019s and Jeff McBride\u2019s iconic routines. Levent\u2019s routine combines many different techniques, including a magnetic coin catcher and a bucket so heavily gaffed it\u2019ll blow your mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\">Do these DVDs contain everything there is to know about this classic of coin magic?\u00a0 Of course not. While encyclopedic, the videos are not exhaustive\u2026This is why I\u2019m glad that Levent finishes with a discussion of literature on the subject. He suggests that you\u2026read as much as you can. Very good advice. If you want to do the Miser\u2019s Dream, I recommend you purchase these DVDs\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_8\"><span class=\"style_1\">After viewing the entire DVD set, noted magic consultant and historian Charles Reynolds said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_8\">\u201cLevent\u2019s Ultimate Guide to the Miser\u2019s Dream is an astonishing work of both scholarship and practical teaching.\u00a0 Based on his own very original version of the classic effect which he has performed and perfected over a period of more than two years, his own staggeringly detailed analysis of the effect examines the work of such masters as Robert-Houdin, T.Nelson Downs, Al Flosso, Charlie Miller, Pat Page, Roy Benson, Jose Frakson, Allan Shaw and literally dozens of other top performers.\u00a0 It is hard to believe that there is not a sleight, routine, or bit of business that he has missed in researching the more than a century and a half history of what is arguably the greatest of all coin tricks.\u00a0 At an almost unbelievable five and a half hours in length (3 excellently produced DVDs) it is the definitive work on one of magic\u2019s true masterpieces\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"id13\" class=\"style_SkipStroke_2 shape-with-text\">\n<div class=\"text-content graphic_textbox_layout_style_default_External_646_184\">\n<div class=\"graphic_textbox_layout_style_default\">\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_9\">Declared by MAGIC Magazine product reviewers to be<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_9\">The Best Magic DVD of 2008 &amp; 2009<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_9\">at the MAGIC Live 2009 convention in Las Vegas<span class=\"style_2\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_10\"><span class=\"style_3\">\u201cLevent has created a great resource for anyone interested in this classic piece of magic\u201d<\/span><span class=\"style_4\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Levent\u2019s \u201cUltimate Guide to The Miser\u2019s Dream\u201d DVDs Everything you ever wanted to know about this classic stage magic effect! 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