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Some of my Magical Inventions

1977 "Sutz Cutz" - an unusual cut and restored rope effect.
1978 "Coin Balloon-acy" -Borrowed marked coin winds up inside a balloon. The first ever coin in balloon effect. (four stars in Genii magazine)
1980 "Best dam Tricks" book- on the rubber dam effect
1978 "Disc Go Dime (four stars in Genii magazine) - bingo chip placed on a key visually changes to a dime.
1980 Refreshments- 6 glasses full of liquid are produced from a production chamber (4 stars genii).
1980 Dependelite match pull
1980 Diminishing sponge ball -4 stars n genii
 1981 Spirit of 76 floating ball
1980 Flagtastick- 3 silks change to a flag on a flagpole (4 stars i...
1982 Traveling silks - acrobatic silks without the bar
1980 universal utility clip

1980 Multiplying coins (4 stars in Genii)

1980 Slapcuffs

1979 Pepsilkola (4 stars in Genii) (5000 pieces sold the first year)

1984 Mylar (silver) Mouth coils (first one ever on the market)
1983 pipsqueak
1982 thumb dyed
1982 super-steal holdout
1983 blendo tie
2008 Dances with ropes
2000 110 tricks with a svengali deck (booklet)
2000 110 tricks with a stripper deck
2000 Haunted Deck: book of revelations (originally e-book) now in soft bound
2008 Matrix reloaded - DVD from lecture
2010 Ring and Spring DVD
1980 Magic with a Steel Ball and Tube
2008 Coin Balloonacy DVD
2009 Diminishing Sponge Ball DVD and sponges

old news

Magicians Make Laughter Appear

A Group Of 20 'Odd' Magicians Band Together For The First Time To Put On A Show In Leesburg.

November 21, 1991|By Kevin Spear Of The Sentinel Staff

LEESBURG — ''Hello. My name is Ian. I-A-N. The last three letters of magician.''
With that, Ian Sutz announced the first-ever magic show of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, Ring 258, Leesburg chapter, home to what Sutz described as 20 ''odd'' magicians.

They are veterans of their craft, some with long lifetimes of performing. They performed Wednesday afternoon to an audience of about two dozen, mostly people of retirement age, who paid $2.50 each for a plush rocking seat in the old Tropic theater in downtown Leesburg.
Judd and Beverly Freyd, who live near the Lake Square Mall, came because they like magic, such as David Copperfield's recent act in Orlando during which he made an airliner disappear.
''It's fun to be fooled,'' he said.
While no planes vanished in Leesburg Wednesday, Sutz got the show going with a laughing clown he called ''Happy'' who ''just sits on the pot all day and sometimes we have to empty the pot.''
Sutz, who owns the Tropic Cinemagic theater, made popcorn and was the emcee for Ring 258's magic show. That gave him several chances to empty Happy's pot of a clear liquid.
The trick, better seen than told, was that Happy the doll appeared somehow to use the pot as a commode.
Sutz was swept up with the humor of Happy and stood there laughing for a moment, his white-shirted belly rising and falling under his magician's black tail coat.
A lot of the magic was a classic mix with comedy, a patter of one-liners and puns. In that, the practitioners were polished.
A magician called LeMac (read it backward) did a cigarette trick, one he had done for years, even in the Navy.
The trick was to make his left hand appear to produce a cigarette as fast as his right hand could pocket them.
By the way, LeMac got a Navy medal for saving two girls - one for himself and one for the commander, he joked.
LeMac stepped aside after that one-liner.
Among those sharing excerpts from their magical careers was Bob Hayes. Fifty years ago at age 12, his grandmother took him to watch magician Harry Blackstone pull a rabbit out of his hat.

Lecture Review

New this Month...June 11th 2004 Ian "Magic Ian" Sutz

In 1974, Ian Stuz saw his first lecture by George Sands, and it inspired him to create some rope effects on his own. He started lecturing that year and along his magical career, he was influenced by some very talented inspirations: Walter Gibson, Ed Mishel, a quirky fellow named Bob Reinhardt, George Post, and Jeff McBride. Jeff was fourteen when he and Ian first met. Together, they started an SAM assembly in Middletown, N.Y. Meetings were held in the back of Ian's magic shop and lasted until the wee hours of the morning, usually with Jeff, his buddy Abe, and Ian doing techniques and developing effects. Jeff and Ian traveled to the New York conventions together as Jeff built up his reputation and Ian made his lecture and product connections. Within 3 years, Ian had developed several new effects. His first, coin balloonacy, won 4 stars in Genii and swept the industry. Picked up by Tannens, and George Schindler, it put him on the map. Michael Ammar got his inspiration for his "ring in balloon" after seeing Ian's lecture at one of the national conventions. Soon, rising stars of magic like McBride, Copperfield, and Lance Burton were all using Ian's highly rated gimmicks and gadgets.

For the record, Ian opened his shop without knowing much magic; he learned from ordering and demos. Since he was a dealer selling magic to Tannens, Ian was given back-room privileges to the stock room, where the big names "hung out" showing off the new moves and asking advice. Ian was learning from the masters. But, he routinely would find a really new method to do an effect because he wasn't clouded by older, stale techniques. This made his magic non-derivative and, therefore, new and original. This served him well; his quirky moves were welcome to manipulators, close-up pros, and beginners.

Ian's theatrical background helped him to be at home performing, even though he had never done stage shows before. He always volunteered to do stand-in spots at conventions, and saw no difference between theater, demonstrating, and doing shows.

The lecture Ian is doing this month at TBMC is a compilation of original effects, quirky moves with everyday apparatus, and his own inventions. He was commissioned to write some booklets for D. Robbins, and has added some special touches to the classic gimmicked deck of cards you all have in the bottom of your magic boxes. Ian took the rubber square trick and made a book out of it; same with the steel ball and tube, stripper deck, and svengali deck; you will also find some online, unpublished books and routines at this lecture.

Get ready to have fun, and be ready to learn some rope effects, silk, coins, gimmick use, some platform blocking, and some darned clever easy magic. It all begins at 7:35 p.m. at the Largo Cultural Center, June 8th.

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November 16, 2010
Magic Ian

Magic Ian may not have invented the professor's nightmare, but the effect he started his lecture with could have fooled people into thinking he had. Ian's re-use of existing props makes his lectures extremely valuable for anyone with a junk drawer full of "magical" items. Ians lecture demonstrated new purposes for such props as rope, sponge balls, ring and spring, and even the crystal ball tube. The majority of his effects were practical and easy to perform. Ian took the time to explain how each effect was accomplished and allowed for questions and a hands on approach for learning. The material he had for sale was nicely packaged and offered at more than fair prices. Additionally, Ian joined ring members before and after the lecture for food and fellowship.

Another nice e-mail

I just called to stroke your ego :)  I  saw your post on facebook the other day about how a guy said an international  local entertainer .... :)...however, I was at blackpool at the dealers room  and just realized that people like you who create "magic" and not just tricks  are a thing of the past!  You really have a mind of genius for  magic!

Cheers,
Brian Ward

Nice comment

Dear Magic Ian,
I was a child at the Tannen's Camp (Now i am an instructor there) and still have many of your lecture notes that you had printed up especially for us, from back in the day.
I also attended many Jubilees and of course Mario & Steve's "Magic in The Mountains"
My favorite routine of yours, still, is the linking ropes, your handling of the change bag with the effect still makes me grin even to this day.
I was at my friends house and he had one of your ORIGINAL cutting an arm in 2 (I forgot the official name)I remember seeing the effect on the shelves of Mario's shop and of course Tannen's.
It triggered my pleasant past memories of the good 'ol days, and ****ed me off that you have been ripped off many times, which is why in my posts on here I defend me & my partners products the best I can.

Thank you for helping shape me into a positive magic thinker who likes to share his work with the magic campers and other honest and positive magi.

Sincerely,
Vinny

Knoxville Lecture review

"If you missed this lecture, you wasted some of your ring dues! Ian performed a whirl-wind of effects using ropes, balloons, sponge balls, silks, thumb tips, flash cotton, and a variety of other props. At Applebees, afterward he showed some of his coin matrix effects that he didn't have time to include in the lecture. All of his effects were practical and most of them were doable with objects many ring members already have laying around in a drawer or box somewhere."

Art form

Magic is an art form that has been parodied by amateurs. Like people who dress as mimes and think they are Marseil Marseau.
I rather think of magic as repertory theater. Magicians doing their rendition of classics (and non classics). Like any theater, you have professional theater and community theater. Anyone can get a script, but most only emulate a performance they have seen. Or, merely read the part. Others can get it right.
I think its is time for magicians to consider our art in this fashion.

 

As a magical performer and inventor, I consider my part as the playwright who comes up with the lines and moves and directs the performer.
---Ian

old article

ON THE LAKE FRONTJune 24, 1994|By Bill Bond of The Sentinel Staff
Word has it that the owner of a movie house and magic store in downtown Leesburg plans to open a restaurant for lunch and evening meals in the old Elks Club building on east Main Street.

Ian Sutz, owner of Tropic Twin Cinema and Costume Store, has purchased the building, which already has a kitchen, restaurant and lounge on the first floor, and a spacious banquet hall on the second floor.

He plans to have the eatery up and serving in late August or early September, he said Thursday.

The Leesburg Elks Club went belly up some time ago, and Sutz purchased the building last month.

He said that since the Chopping Block Restaurant closed there is a need for a restaurant in downtown Leesburg.

''I have a customer base crying for a place to go after a movie and it's within easy walking distance of my theater,'' Sutz said. The building is a couple of short blocks from the movie house and has a seating capacity of 156.

He plans sandwich and salad lunches and southern-style cuisine for evening dinners. The food will be similar to what was served at the now-defunct Chopping Block, which is across from the theater and a costume/magic store.

The name of the restaurant comes from his wife's first name: ''Lynn's Leesburg Inn.''

He's still a little unsure, though, about the ''Inn'' part in the name because he doesn't plan to rent rooms.

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