Kids Entertainer Podcast

Welcome to Season 7 chapter 135 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! Today Zivi and Danny are back to talk about Getting a show together or a new routine - How to build your next show or even a new routine. Listen to the episode to learn more.

• Virtual or Live - Your show and each routine should have a beginning, middle, and end.
• Is it a modular show or a narrative show? The benefits of each.
• Danny's first show - Lighter Than Air, a balloon show - made up of cabaret acts
• How do you know what order to put routines in?
• Get ideas, try stuff out, get a director/coach, get creative, don't be a perfectionist
• Pre-sell your idea so it's funded and you have an aim, you know the demand and have bookings to help with costs of creating a new product.
• Theatre in the UK experience - Danny
• Test your show out with a local school, library, party, etc free or cheap but with feedback/ video/ photos/ testimonials.
• Market and sell your show.
• After each show for the first few - review, record on video if you can, and tweak the bits that aren't working so well.

Welcome to Season 7 chapter 134 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! Today is the 4th episode of this new season and co-hosts Danny and Zivi talked about How to create original routines for your kids show in today's episode. Listen Now!

• Why be original?
• Principle of the trick, idea for routine
• Inspiration, research, looking outside your field.
• Adapting ideas -Let's take a look at the Colouring book trick; standard, other versions, make your own
• Make your own props - cardboard 1st to test, then make a better version 2, eg three little pigs story
• Combining ideas (Danny's Three Little Pigs show concept)
• Pushing limits - What do you do now? Which bits do you like? How can you improve it? The look? The skill level? The originality? Upsizing? Miniaturizing?
• Character Development: eg Regina Martinez - Silly Sparkles - Danny Directs
• How crazy can you get?
• What is the end feeling you want for your audience that they go home with?
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cabaret+du+monde

Welcome to Season 7 chapter 133 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! Today, Zivi and Danny talked about Your Joy in the time of a pandemic - Your true role as a kids entertainer. Listen to the episode to learn more.

• What is joy?
• Where to find joy in difficult times?
• Why are we performers? Let's get back to basics.
• Check the Book - "Joyful" by Ingrid Fetell Lee
• Remembering the ultimate goal - to make people happy, entertain and create memorable events for your customers and their guests.
• Danny on Discovering gardening & creating gags
• Remembering the smiles and laughter - Danny's 1st twisting gig after 5 months
• Time of sorrow -> Need for joy, fun, distraction, and entertainment.
• Story of Danny's hardest show EVER, but possibly the best, and why.

Welcome to Season 7 chapter 132 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! Danny is back again as co-host on this episode today. Today we talked about how to shine while performing so that even the adults will love you.

• How to practice = Skills. How to rehearse = Routines
• Tools like Mirror X, Camera/video, Director/Outside eye
• Confidence = preparation; Smiling with eyes, being genuine, practice & play
• Eyes are windows to the soul
• Keep your windows clean & fresh technique
• Eyes wide open, healthy body too
• Including the adults - Perform for everyone in the room principle
• Connect with the kids AND adults by asking them to help
• Interact with kids improvise on their answers to enchant the adults.
• Be Brilliant at what you do - be spectacular and be different!

Welcome to Season 7 chapter 131 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! In this new season, Danny Schlesinger is coming back as a co-host with Zivi Kivi. Today we talked about how to perform in the midst of this pandemic.

• How entertainers adjust to the pandemic situation
• What adjustments are necessary for doing a performance
• Live Performance vs. Virtuals Shows
• Important things to consider in live performances during this pandemic
• Why it is important that you know what you are doing when performing outside
• The precautions you have to consider if you perform outside
• Why this is the best time to reinvent your routine
• The best things to do to improve yourself while you don't have a performance lined up
• Why learning a new skill is a great opportunity during this time
• How KEA helps entertainers by having all available skills ready to be utilized to learn and improve
• How keeping the ideas flowing helps big time

Welcome to Season 6 chapter 130 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! Julia Huffaker is our guest in this episode today. Today we talked about how she started Facepainting and how she evolved as an entertainer.

• Julia has been entertaining kids for 7 years now
• Julia started Facepainting way back in her college days
• Julia stopped for a while after she got married
• Julia went back to Facepainting after having her daughter
• She wanted to be with her daughter all the time and that's what pushed her to go back
• Julia attended a convention and found some people that does Facepainting with balloons
• After a few months she attended a twisting event
• Julia already doubled her rate since she started entertaining
• Julia started practicing magic in her 4th year as an entertainer

Welcome to Season 6 chapter 129 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! Colin Dymon from UK is our guest in this episode. Today we talked about ventriloquism, puppetry and magic.

• Colin is a veteran for 24 years and performed all around the world
• It all started for him when his gave his eldest son a magic set
• Colin started to go to magic shows and learned from it
• Colin joined the magic circle and became an associate for 12 months only
• Colin went into some kind of a meet and found a puppet parrot
• Colin then started to learn ventriloquism
• From one puppet he has several puppets along the way
• Colin developed a full show starring all his puppets
• In the next 5 years he would work on his schedule management

Welcome to Season 6 chapter 128 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! Jelly Otis is our guest in this episode. Today we talked about her unique business and reptile show.

• They are planning to change their business name from Blazing Balloons to Jellyfish Entertainment
• Jelly started when she was 19 as a part timer
• Jelly went to Hawaii and brought her balloons their but did not get in touch with the balloon community
• Jelly transferred to Utah and found a mentor Jeremy
• Face painting was kind of a challenge for her because of her creativity
• Jelly never does balloons and face painting at the same time in one show
• Jelly's husband is an Entomologist and that's where the reptile show came into the scene
• The reptile is going on for about a year now and has become aligned to kids entertainment
• Their company's work ethic is what they are proud of (always on time, always a great show)
• More exciting and informative things when you listen to the episode..

Welcome to Season 6 chapter 127 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! Chad Jacobs aka Chef Banana from Missouri, USA. Today we talked about his journey and transition from a Restaurant manager to a Magician.

• Chad's family used to own a restaurant that ran for 39 years
• Chad ran the restaurant for 12 years with his sister
• Chad always saw magic as his next career if the restaurant closes.
• Chef Banana was a result of a long brainstorming night with his wife
• Chad made sure he has good videos in his website
• The videos are professionally made
• Chad had a back injury that made him stay at the basement for 6 weeks
• He ended of missing 75 shows because of this injury
• Chad took the part of the routine that caused his injury out from his show

Welcome to Season 6 chapter 126 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! Virginia Hankins from Los Angeles, California is our guest in this spectacular show. She owns several businesses that cater different themed entertainment.

• Virginia owns a company that does mermaids, unicorns and other beautiful themed parties
• Her companies are Sheroes Entertainment, LA Mermaid School and Milo the Magical Unicorn
• Virginia specializes in high end themed entertainment
• Milo the Magical Unicorn is actually a horse that she owns
• Virginia has a team that takes care of Milo and trains him
• Her parties have around 50 kids each and usually hires Milo for 3 hours
• The main foundation of her company are fully immersive educational entertainment packages
• They include songs about the ocean and games related to it
• In her Mermaid School and pool parties, they have lifeguards to make sure the kids are safe
• The lifeguards are included in her package to make sure there will be one
• if it's not safe it's not a good show
• Virginia wrote a book called 'How To Be a Real Life Mermaid' and it was a one year project
• Virginia has a 30 to 50 subcontractors and performers that work for her companies each year
• A TON of Value that you can learn from Virginia and her business in this episode, so please make sure to listen!