Swampy's Florida

Swampy’s performer, magician friend, Dan Stapleton posted the ad from around 1980 and has a story that goes with it!:

“Ah…showbiz. We never stop learning. Lesson here: The Winter Park (Fl) Langford hotel brought many entertainers to town. I would try and see as many as possible when a magician or ventriloquist was performing.

Saw Ricki Dunn, Tom & Sherrie, Glen Heywood and others here here. When Faryln [Dan’s wife] and I began dating, we went to see the show pictured here for two reasons. 1. It too had a comedy-magician in the show but for the likes of me can’t recall who it was. And 2….it had an “ice” floor that I was curious how that would work. As it turned out, it wasn’t really “ice” but rather a sort of “Teflon” surface.

But what I really recall from this show was that, this night, Faryln and I were the only ones at this particular performance….and we felt bad for the performers. They sat us front row center. Here is an entire Revue about to perform their whole show…just for us. I went over to the fellow in charge of the group and told him, “Hey…you don’t have to do this just for us. We’ll leave.” Pleading with us to stay we nearly walked out, for our guilt and sorrow in them having put on their show for just two people. Hoping more people would show we reluctantly stayed…and gave them as best our two-audience member reaction we could.

After the show, it was either the Latino magician or the production manager who came over to our table and I was expecting to be admonished for “having” them do the show just for us. But no. He explained how appreciative they were that we did, in fact, stay as had we left, none of them would have been paid for the show. And Faryln and I felt like hero’s for only a moment.”

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