Darin the Magician

Darin the Magician is a children’s comedian/entertainer, has done thousands of shows during his career and is well known in the Gauteng area. He performs at parties, schools, family fun days and designs shows to promote children’s products.

Darin’s performances are one man shows, designed around a theme and are 45 minutes in duration. All shows have colourful interesting looking props, magic and balloon twisting to keep the children riveted. Darin has a unique comedy style of entertaining that appeals to both adults and children. All shows are highlighted with a puppet and through Darin’s ventriloquist ability the puppet characters seem to have a life of their own. Below are Darin’s shows with a brief description, however he is constantly updating shows and designing new ones.

PRINCES AND PRINCESSES
Girls love to dress up and look pretty, so in this show Darin has all sorts of enchanting things. Pictures of the ugly sisters magically turn into princesses, a mysterious colour changing fan and a crown loses its diamond only to reappear mysteriously. One of the children do magic with Darin and a sparkling ring, which she gets to keep afterwards. On Darin’s table is a mysterious cave that turns into a palace and lastly out of Aladdin’s lamp pops the Genii to grant 3 wishes and sing and joke with the kids.

DARIN AND SHREK
All sorts of magical and funny things from Fairytale land. Magic tricks with Shrek, Princess Fiona, donkey and Pinocchio. This popular show has the kids squealing with delight and when Darin brings out his Shrek puppet the kids go bananas..

DINOSAUR SHOW
Children find these extinct creatures fascinating so Darin has put together a fantastic selection of puppets and magic tricks to entertainment with this theme. Dinosaur fossils appear from kid’s ears, Dippy the Long Neck gets chased by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and one of the kids turns into a ‘Cave man’. Then Darin brings out a giant egg and out flies a baby pterodactyl dinosaur to speak to the kids and lastly there is also a volcano that suddenly erupts causing major excitement for the kids.

SUPERHERO MAGIC SHOW
Every boy wants to be a superhero, so this magic show is themed around their favourite superheroes. Kryptonite from the kids’ ears, Magical story with Spidyman and the birthday boy becomes a superhero too. As a reward for helping, Darin will make him 2 balloon Ninja swords. There is a talking gun and lastly Mikey the Turtle arrives and tells all the dudes how he fights baddies. It is a fantastic show and always the first choice for the boys, and some girls.

WIZARDS, DRAGONS AND FLYING BROOMS
Being able to do magic like Harry Potter is something most children would like to do, so in this show Darin has magic wands that have a mind of their own, a witches hat that changes colour by magic, a broom that flies into the air and a book of magic spells that bursts into flames. One of the children is transformed into a wizard/witch and does magic with Darin. For the older children Darin also uses the Sword of Excalibur that can penetrate through someone’s neck without harming them-really exciting stuff. All wizards have their magical pets, and Darin brings his talking baby dragon to round off the show.

DOGS AND CATS MAGIC SHOW
Pets are always popular with children and there have been many movies and TV shows featuring animals, so Darin put together a show around this theme. The Cat in the Hat changes colour magically, Cruella’s hand bag reveals lots of surprises, puppies are stolen and then magically reappear and Darin has lots of fun with tins of pet food behaving rather strangely. To top off this show Butch the Talking Bulldog comes out to keep the kids howling with laughter.

PIRATES AND MERMAIDS
In this show there is a mysterious rope from a pirate ship that floats in the air by itself. The Little Mermaid is locked in the jail by Ursula the Sea Witch and Darin has to save her magically. Sea water pours out of the children’s ears, Polly the talking parrot pops out of a bag with all sorts of cheeky things to say and there is also a magical treasure bucket with all sorts of strange things inside. This show is great for boys and girls.

FAIRY MAGIC
Do you believe in Fairies? Little girls do and that’s what gave Darin the inspiration for this show. Tinkerbelle gets chased by Captain hook, the tooth fairy does magic with grandma’s teeth and a magical lady bird disappears and reappears in a giant balloon. Then from Darin’s garden Trixie the Pixie arrives and flirts with girls causing lots of little giggles.

PURPLE DINO SHOW
Darin has put together a really cute show around the theme of this loving TV Character. There are tricks with Barnie, tricks with his friends and when Barnie goes into his house he magically grows, shrinks and plays peck a boo with the kids. Darin brings along the Barnie Bag with all sorts of funny things inside and lastly the Purple Dino puppet himself arrives to chat and sing some favourite songs. Little kids almost always get up to greet the character which they see as real and not just a puppet.

ACTION ARMY
This show is not in the same style as Darin’s other shows but is more of an interactive show. Darin starts off training the kids to salute, an army war song and basic exercise. The birthday boy is the Sergeant and together with his soldiers they do an obstacle course and a tug of war. Then comes the part the boys really enjoy – air gun shooting at balloon and can targets. They shoot a rifle fitted with a telescopic sight and a pistol fitted with a laser scope, all very carefully supervised under Darin’s watchful eye. The soldiers are now fitted with a camouflage shield, armed with a water pistol and ready for ‘war games’. After the war the boys get to watch Darin and the Sergeant detonate a fused ‘bomb’ and a smoke ‘bomb’, then the Sergeant is awarded with his personalised dog tags. 60 minutes of total excitement.

GAME MASTER
This hour long show full of all sorts of unusual games is done by Darin. Silly games like ‘Elephant noses’ where kids wear an elephant mask and have to pick up plastic donuts with their ‘trunks’ and then there is the clown dress up competition. Ball throwing games, balloon games all done to the latest music. There are even song and dance games. To finish off the show kids have a chance to bash open the piñata.

MR ADT SAFETY SHOW
As part of ADT’s social awareness program they are sponsoring this show for pre primary and primary schools. The show is presented by Darin who is “Mr ADT” and he uses his usual fun comedic style to get across some very important safety messages. Children learn what to do if they are exposed to crime in their home, car or in the street as well as people that might want to hurt or abuse them. If your school has not yet had this program, give us a call, because Darin and ADT are SERIOUS about protecting children.

DARIN AND RUDOLF
Everyone loves Christmas, so in this show there is a Christmas hat that comes to life, all sorts of Santa Claus magic and even a Christmas tree magically appears . Milk and cookies disappear – did Santa take them? Lastly the famous “Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer” arrives to sing and chat.

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