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A SHORT NOTE - BOOKING A HYPNOTIST FOR A HIGH SCHOOL POST PROM OR GRAD NIGHT EVENT
Rarely are parents experienced entertainment buyers, event planners, decorators, event site negotiators, caterers, etc. When a parent is booking a comedy hypnotist for a high school, they are often times choosing the performer they will use pretty blindly.
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Some choose by price.
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Others think, "if the act lives close to us, we should pick them."
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Others choose by referral or they check the credits and references.
I don't know why some acts charge more than other acts. I know what I can afford to do a show for, and I need to charge enough to travel to and from that event regardless of where I might be coming from, or going to, so I can do the event and not loss money. More often than you can imagine I find myself:
- Driving 2,000 miles and parking my vehicle at an airport ... so I can
- fly back home to do a show close to my home ... then
- fly back to my vehicle to continue down the highway to the next event.
My web site for High School events like this is www.alansands.com/schools
I have a brochure via PDF at the top of every page on my web site just below the links buttons: http://www.alansands.com/pdf/booklet120.pdf"
A little bit about me
Comedy Hypnotist Alan Sands - The SandMan
My father was a professional entertainer. He did a magic act and a stage hypnosis show amongst other shows he developed and when I was a teenager I watched two of his desciples perform, and we went and watched other hypnotists perform at hotels in the Catskill Mountain Resorts, wehre I grew up.
I began performing stage hypnosis shows in high school but stopped performing them and pursued my magic career until I took it up again seriously in 1993.
I have high school clients I have been performing for since my first year experimenting. I have other clients in my list of credits I have been working with for over a dozen years. High Schools are a major part of my annual tour. I average between 20 and close to 30 high school events some years. They are called all kinds of names including:
- Safe And Sober Grad Nights
- Bash Events
- Post Prom Parties
- Lock-in Parties
- All Night or All-nite Grad Night Parties
- A lot of events like to spell night as "nite" to stylize the word.
I begin doing school shows in March in the Midwest for Post Prom Parties. In June, I find myself in California's Bay Area doing the core of my tour for Grad Nites. States I am in almost every year include Texas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, California, Montana and New York. For the last few years I have had a repeat client in Idaho who uses me at Christmas.
I have watched the statistics and talked to the Montana Highway Department and the police in Sonoma County, California. I believe in these parties - they work. I have never heard of one person who went to one of these parties ending the night tragically. It also seems that the students that do not attend are at least conscious of the possibility because the party is happening, so they are more careful and by not going they remain safe all the same. I will mention one exception, though it did not happen at the all-night party: Napa High School in California, a week before the Graduation, a tragedy happened at a water park when 30+ students all got onto a slide together and the slide collapsed.
My normal fee for my high school show is $1,500.00. I normally ask for a hotel room in addition.
What sets me apart from other stage hypnotists?
I carry sound with me whenever I can.
I own three professional sound systems. I keep one in Mississippi, one in California's Bay Area and one in my vehicle.
I was a college broadcasting major & am OCD about my sound. I like a very clean sounding, professional PA system. When the sound works correctly, no one notices. When the sound does not work correctly, it hurts the show by either making it weak or bad sound can be distracting. I also hurt my voice when the sound doesn't work correctly.
I carry lights a lot of the time ...
Just in case I need them. It is not a large light tree, but - again, if people cannot see everything clearly, it can hurt the show. I avoid setting up the lights when possible as they are high maintenance, but I have them when I need them. I do my own sound cues.
I do my own sound cues ...
I'm so OCD about my sound cues being on time and tight. I have devised a wireless system for my iPod so I can do my own sound cues. Music and sound effects add a total other dimension to an act and my show has over 40 sound cues, not including I do dozens of vocal sound effects into the wireless microphone I carry.
If you'd like to read another short page like this one on the sound, lights and stage technical aspects of a hypnosis show, visit:
www.alansands.com/technical
I don't claim to be the best hypnotist out there, My father always said, "There is no BEST of anything. There are 'those that are best' but no single person remains on top for ever."
I am a high quality - PG-12.5 performer, who developed his act doing high school, colleges & county-state fairs all over the nation. I have enough edge to keep the high school age group riveted and laughing so hard they cry, without offending priests & nuns at Catholic Schools.
I repeat my clients for many years because they know I deliver what I promise.
I am low maintenance.
I'd love to come and perform for your group. Please consider "Comedy Hypnotist Alan Sands - The SandMan" seriously for your next high school event. I do not post my credits here on my web site. If you'd like references you can check, please do not hesitate to ask.
Cheerz,
Alan Sands
(800) 892-2287
www.alansands.com
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