r/Props • u/GittyupGoDaddy • 12h ago
Looking for advice Considering building a magic theatre for a local professional magician. FEEDBACK REQUESTED!
| **A friend of mine here in my midsize town is a full time professional magician. He's lived here for about 18 months and is doing well. His theatre holds about 20 people and he sells out most shows. I approached him about getting him a much better location nearer all of the hotel and tourist activity. I'd buy the building, renovate to a very nice magic theatre for about 40, and he'd rent it from me. I always dreamed of doing this myself, but I'm not a very good magician. But I have been very successful in my businesses and I'd really like to help this guy get to the next level, and give something to our community that we don't have. A magic theatre. He also wants to have a small magic shop and museum in the front for pedestrian traffic, which there will be a fair amount of.****MY QUESTION: This building is 75 years old. It is just the right size, BUT I think that an 8 foot ceiling is all I am going to be able to get. To go above that, even if I can, is going to require tremendous ezpense in the attic, plus we are going to run into asbestos issues. SO IS 8 FEET HIGH ENOUGH? He does parlor type magic.****I don't want to spend all this money on a building when 8 feet in the performance area isn't going to give us the look and feel of a small auditorium despite our best efforts.**THANK YOU FOR YOUR OPINIONS! |
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