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"daGrbiisrritst, ir, a modern practitioner of the art 6 magic, has been entertaining audiences in the Waterloo-area for seven years. - g A "I'm an amtdrtainer first. It'g not the magic aspect tint I'm really concentrating on. Anybody can go out and. buy a little magic kit at the store and say ‘well watch this. You have tobe able tocatch and hold the audience's attention. It's all in how you present your- self" Dietrich said. _ _ Dietrich. known professionally as The Great Gerard. was raised on a farm in Bruce County where he first learned to feel Comfortable in front of audien- ces at country fairs by showing animals for his 4-H Club. "I started when I was a child after seeing several magicians,'; Dietrich said. "I was always amazed by things that looked like they couldn‘t be achieved. The challenge was just too tempting. [had to try. . "There's a lot of people that really don't believe in magic, but I think it's the essence at life. You have to have things like Santa Claus and be able to relate to them these days," he said. Dietrich and his wife Jean make a point of attending niagic conventions in the United Staten“ England to see new equipment, new routines and sometimes ' P we...“ Moe-Qt- [new " f,',',',',',.,','," from clamp and Ne 'riagie to parlor .' magic escape routines. " 'Wve tried just about all of them, but I'm at the stage in life where I want to do the act with my fami- ly," Dietrich said. Jean assists The Great Gerard along with their sons 12-year-old Jamie and 13-year-old Shawn who open the show with a puppet routine. Twenty-three-mmui-old Scott comes out near the end to help his fatherchange trGveintoarabtgtwithtttetteFtrstt1e"rnag)e stardust" and a wand with tttrt-power' when in the right hands. "'iiiGiiGauy looks fol-van! to doing magic shows. In fact, one of his natural toy: is a wand," Dietrich said The Great Gerard. who works for Mutual’Life of Canada in Waterloo when he's not performing his feats of magic, has helped to set up a magic show and lecture series for budding magicians on Feb. 7 at the Kitchener YMCA. He also hopes to organize the Cana- dian Society of Ventriioqtdrrts became "it's a dying art and Idem't want to see it pass. “If someone has a genuine interest in magic, I steer them toward the Junior We Club in Kitchener. and if they're still interested they can move on to the Sen- ior Magic Club," he said. "biggién has his M's brightest moments come ,ettentttetttaiieneegetCmrtt)teaet. .... “Audience participation is always a good thing. I'm always waiting for a heckler. I have a lot of material that I don't always get to use but " there for when a heckler turns up in the audience." Dietrich said, "it someone says ‘l've seen that trick before,' I‘ll say that I can't do the trick because it's been seen before (pointing at the heckler) and I say that the rest of the audience won‘t want to see it either. If he opens his mouth again, I don't have to do anything because the audience will take care of him for me. At first I didn't know what to do, but not I incorporate it into the act." Dietrich values his pups and animals-everything "aGiairhtoveitieortitriiyrepeqttofovte!tt? biu--to be somewhere in the new of 310,000. iiesaystutmteetauinitrkiidypqr9etyetf1t all the necessary equipment and heads off to do a show. “nobody in the audience will fall asleep." Dietrichhelieves tttnttteemnesaiiveastsooetashe steps onto the stage. He thrives on the audience’s re- sponse to his family's efforts. N "I really have fun. I'm still a kid, I‘m." he said. Every magician is commuted with the ultimate question at one time or another. 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