Celebify: Behind-the-Scenes of Writing a Play

Behind-the-Scenes of Writing the Play

The theater piece work-in-progress known as Superstar Magician has been an extraordinary and truly enjoyable electric hocus pocus experience thus far. It has also been a quite stressful and seemingly impossible task filling the author with great doubt and self criticism. But there is a term for that: the creative process.

Process of Creation

It is not easy to create something, especially an undertaking that is important and meaningful to the individual doing it. There can be a feeling of having a lot at stake and this kind of intense connection to your work increases the pain of the lows.

Characters have Lives of their Own

But it also pumps up the value of the highs. Discoveries made that you never consciously sought out. Almost as though the imaginary characters you are writing about have a life of their own. They assert themselves. They let you know what they are truly made of. They beg you to not underestimate them.

Listen to Them

And they seem to ask you the writer to give them the plot and story outcome that they deserve. And at the time of putting together these thoughts and insights of penning Superstar Magician, the script itself is still in the very early phases of its first draft.

Superstar Magician: Mirth Magic Murder Mystery

Superstar Magician is a comedy about a magic entertainer who becomes the target of murder by her conjuring competition. It is also the tale of the world’s two greatest women in magic in a battle of good versus evil.

Effects 

But it is not the story that one might think it is, based on the description just given. This is not a supernatural plot line, but is instead about two magic entertainers, conjurers, who do effects for entertainment purposes.

Erik Weisz

Both of the main characters of this four character theater piece, are great admirers of Erik Weisz, also known as Harry Houdini the great escape artist and magician. And hence, both the storyline within the script of the showdown battle of the two women, as well as in reality in terms of the first public reading of the script upon its completion of being written, will be on Houdini Day, 2024.

On Houdini Day will Houdini Rise?

Historically in the world of legerdemain, Houdini Day is October 31st, which is the date in 1926 that Erik (Houdini) left to shuffle off this mortal coil. And starting on October 31st, 1927, a year later, the first séance was held to attempt to reach Harry Houdini from the alternative Universe. 

Connecting with Houdini

Thus far it seems that no authenticated connection with the late prestidigitator has been made, but it is the hope of the author of Superstar Magician and the four actors from the Celebrity Strategy theatre company performing in the play reading, to make a genuine connection with Houdini.

The Celebrity Strategy Festival for Seven Evenings During National Magic Week

The Industry of Magic is just one of the fields being represented by this year’s Celebrity Strategy fest starting on Monday, October 28th, 2024 and running through to Sunday, November 3rd. Each evening features a sector that relates to the Industry of Magic including the Industry of the Arts, Industry of Small Business, Industry of Education, Industry of Theater, Industry of Entertainment, and the Industry of Movies.

Audience of Emerging Industry Celebs

A celebrity of industry whose expertise coincides with each of the industries just mentioned will be giving a lecture each evening of the festival as well as will be answering questions from the attendees who are themselves emerging industry celebs.

From Beyond the Grave 

On the evening of the world premiere play reading of Superstar Magician, the story, if the way the current rough draft is being written remains, the finale will include a dramatic life or death confrontation between the dueling female magicians at a seance attempt to bring back the escape artist/conjurer from beyond the grave.

Reaching Harry

Then after the reading of the theater piece is complete, a well known member of the industry of magic will take center stage and lead an authentic séance attempt with the spectators in tow to try to reach Harry. 

Who are Your Magician Candidates?

Meanwhile, during the build to the seven evening Celebrity Strategy festival and the script reading on Thursday, October 31 Houdini Day at a theater in Midtown Manhattan, NYC, continues. And as this countdown continues, the producer of the fest, who is also the writer of the work in progress Superstar Magician, is asking readers for their input as to who they think are the two most important currently performing female magicians in the world today? 

Possibilities of Magical Proportions

And their sharing of their opinion could result in possibilities of magical proportions such as maybe even having the two magicians most voted for to attend the reading, or possibly even participate in the reading, or at the very least eventually see a video recording made of the reading as next steps are taken with the project.

Regardless of what the result is, it is all a part of...The Magic of the Creative Process...Tune in next time to Celebify for the continuing story!