Our meeting in December will be our holiday party. We will have pizza and soft drinks. There will be a white elephant exchange. Stay tuned for details.

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Past Events

The 2025 Fall Parlor Show was a great success entertainment wise, but we fell short generating revenue.

An incredible amount of effort was put into marketing the show and many volunteers played a critical role in pulling it off. Apologies if I missed anyone.

Member	Activity
Barrett, April	Door Hanger distribution
Bogdas, Mike	Open House, Videos, Card design and printing
Campbell, Brian	Open House
Clark, Jackie	Tickets and Raffle
Doyle, Michael	Performer
	Sold tickets
Goodwin, Robert	Open House
	Distributed Posters
	Customer survey at show
	Purchased PCAC signs
Heath, Alex	Open House
Howell, Sean	Producer, Emcee
	Performer
	Fox 2 and Live in the D On Camera
Irwin, Hugh	Open House
Jones, Dan	Open House
	Distribute Posters
	Backstage Fox 2 and Live in the D
	Balloons, Popcorn, Setup and Cleanup
	Marketing Lead
Krozal, Rob	Open House
	Door Hanger distribution
	Concessions
Mann, Phil	Open House
	Distribute Posters and Cards
Oesterwind, Don	Sold tickets
Peczynski, Austin	Performer
Rabe, Bill	Performer
	Sold Tickets
Rabe, Karl	Performer
	Door Hanger design, printing and distribution
	Digital Marketing
	Poster design and Printing
Rabe, Patty	Tickets
	Door Hanger distribution
Reuter, Michael	Performer
	Sold tickets
Stone, Lincoln	Performer
	Fox 2 and Live in the D On Camera
Stone, Wendy	Sold Tickets
	Concessions, Cleanup & Balloons
	Backstage Fox 2 and Live in the D

 

We had a great lineup of onstage performers….

• Sean Emceed the show, performed a few fill-in tricks and closed with a whiskey shot glass routine. Mirf performed his card trick with Sean assisting.
• Lincoln Stone opened with several tricks including his vanishing rabbit cage, the pom-pom pole, and card trick.
• Michael Doyle performed a die prediction and a version of Cardiographic.
• Karl & Bill Rabe performed their "Bill, Lend Me a Hand" routine based on Kevin James' body-parts illusion kit.
• Austin Peczynski performed a variation on the spot card with a nautical poem to match.
• Mike Reuter had a number of routines including a multi-phase Rubik's cube trick and a variation on Bill Abbott's tossed out deck with a kicker prediction at the end.

Photos courtesy of Jackie Clark and Dan Jones

Our treasurer Rob Krozal keeps detailed records on each show. On the financial side, we cleared $506 profit with an average of 37 tickets sold per show. To cover our annual operating expenses, we really want to clear a minimum of $960. On average since 2022, we are falling short by about $300 per date (afternoon and evening show combined). We need to regularly achieve results like May 2023 and October 2024 to meet our goals.

We posted digitally in three waves reaching a combined estimate of 1 Million touches (email, Facebook, TV, Posters, Cards, Door Hangers and Print Media). Bob Goodwin surveyed attendees to determine the forms of marketing that reached each group. His data is below. Almost half of our customers are generated by word of mouth through members. For reference, if a family of four attended, Bob surveyed one person from that family and they will show as a tally of 1 below.

 

We will discuss this more in the future, but wanted our members to see the data so we have context to discuss it further.