This year has been a banner year for our show. We successfully completed the first leg of our east coast tour with standing ovations at every show, added our brand-new illusion "Walking Thru Steel" into the show line up and are continuing work on various other projects that we're hoping will hit the stage soon. Not to mention we also have a very solid tour schedule coming up this fall! It seems like the days just keep getting shorter and shorter and the to do list is getting longer and longer. I'm very fortunate to have the dedication of a key group of people who make up The Magic of Bill Blagg III (MOBB). Without this team our show wouldn't exist.

We've been in the shop lately putting the finishing touches on a number of projects that have been in the works for some time now. We just completed testing this weekend on an illusion I designed with my good friend Ryan Reed over a year ago. It's been through various design and fabrication changes before finally becoming the piece it is today. I want to thank my dad and Tim Clothier for their amazing fabrication work to make this illusion possible. Now that testing is out of the way we're going to start adapting the illusion for the stage by adding the lighting and the music to bring it all together. Once it's all set the prop will head over to be powder coated and have some last minute additions placed on it before being introduced into the show. It's been a long time coming but the final result is well worth the wait!

Here's a few pics from testing this weekend.




In addition to this illusion we're also actively working on 5 other effects. One has been in the works for close to 8 years now! Mostly because I can't seem to make up my mind on it but I think I've finally got it figured out :-) We did some initial testing with it this weekend and realized the direction we were going just wasn't going to work. With that being said we had to scrap over 2 years of work and head a completely different direction. I feel very confident in this new direction so hopefully I'll have an update on things in the next few months. Sometimes things work and sometimes they don't...that's the joy of creating new material.

With all of the hard work my team and I put in it's important to take some time away to recharge the batteries. We make it a point to have a fun night out from time to time so we can relax and catch up on everyday life. It's so rewarding to not only have a team of great people helping to make this all possible but also being able to call them my best friends.

Here's a snap of us from a recent night out. We were hoping the booth would vanish like in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure but it never happened.



As always stay tuned! We have a lot of exciting news on the way.

-BB3