This page covers some of the highlights thus far of Frederick's achievements in the performing arts. As each journey begins with the first step it is so here. Every attempt is made to the accuracy of important dates but may vary to some degree in documentation from the various medias.
1973/1974 - Frederick begins the journey of discovery and really begins focusing his time and effort towards perfecting the craft. Primarily working in the close-up magic arena using items that are readily available and affordable. (He incorporates standard magic with cards, coins, and sponges.) Often from conception of presentation in rehearsal to performance spending literally hundreds of hours on one concept. This will later grow to thousands of hours to finished product. Notices his interest in mentalism, and escapes begin to grow. Later at the tail end of 1974 he is approached by Hollywood Magic to film his close-up magic. Talking with his parents he learns this is against their wishes and is forced to decline. Things are beginning to get bad at home due to the time he is spending on his new found aspiration. First serious attempts to hypnotize are tried using really primitive methods with very slight results. Having a built in audience at school he takes every opportunity to perform he can.
1975/1976 - Begins to realize he is gaining a greater audience and start combining hypnotism, magic, and escapes under one roof. He also gains a second great interest that lends itself to his performing arts career. Sculpting his body with intensive work outs and martial arts he is influences by Arnold Schwarzennegger and Bruce Lee. Frederick feels he can utilize what is achieved here in his shows. Hypnotizes people such as Max S. and Rob L. to believe they are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Lee as part of his hypnotic show. Finds that he has over time gained the ability to hypnotize at will. (His mentalism, and magic improves as his bank account drops.) Shows become quite regular events mostly in cafeterias and open are shows. He performs often 2 or 3 times a day to students and sometimes teachers. Perfects his instant hypnosis approach and then discards it to find something more theatrical. (Throughout his schooling his marks will suffer as he devotes more and more time on the magical arts and sciences.) Has advanced to more of a standup and cabaret style show and gains a deep rooted knowledge of parapsychology which he utilizes in his mentalism. It is at this stage that the art becomes so all encompassing that performer and art become one. Founds the E.P. Scarlett fitness club from previous experience including a award of excellence in atheletics.
1977/1978 - Having gained a signifigant following in schools he branches out and begins doing parties and parks sometimes doing 5 shows a day. More times than not these shows are chalked up for experience as he simply loves the work. Discovering a natural talent in marketing he produces his very first advertizing at this time. (He learns much later how much he has yet to learn.) Continuing to combine Hypnosis, Magic, and Mentalism he is allowed to lecture on hypnosis for psychology classes and earns some of his marks here. He also lectures on the psychology of magic from a non disclosure point of view which he finds difficult ending up more with a presentation about optical illusions and perceptions from the mind's eye. Frederick begins recieving far more pressure from the school board's administration to not do hypnosis or mentalism on school property due to some parents unfounded beliefs. Unfettered he continues until it becomes routine visits to the principal's office. He is finally given a ultimatum which he decides to acknowledge and begins focusing more on the illusion aspects of the craft putting to a extent hypnosis and mentalism on the backburner. (He still performs hypnotic shows but beyond the confines of the school boards jurisdiction.) Filling the void left from not being able to perform at school certain portions of his acts he moves the show to shopping centers and open air venues in the hope of less artistic persecution. This is to a great extent successful with the exception of one incident in which he discovers that some would stack the deck even at the school level. Learning that there is to be a school talent contest in his region he decides to enter and later is taken to the side it is suggested to him that he does not enter as it is unfair to everyone else. This action will carry a bad taste in his mouth which he has never really got over due to this experience as a very young man of what could be denied by those with a hidden agenda. (By the way he did attend the talent contest and put on a great show for everyone as a spectator never letting on why he didn't enter.) Hence Frederick learns here to avoid talent contests as not worth considering.
1978/1980 - Having started to focus more on the grand illusions than hypnosis due to the need to work with a team of assistants he decides to round off his abilities full circle. Working intensely with no governmental support Frederick manages to produce a Illusion show and is given the opportunity to perform in late 1978 at the jubilee auditorium warming up a famous Italian singer this is his first major stage show. So spellbound is he that he misses the nuances of his own performance and is told by Pierre L. later that everytime Frederick did something you could literally hear a chorus of Ooooo...s and then Ahhhhhhhhhhs. It would seem he had done it obtaining his first major production success not without the help of Marcie A., Samantha A., Bonnie, Dave C., Pierre L., Gary S.,Brad G., and Tony O. None of this would have been possible without the rehearsal space Harris D., had lent him owner of one of the world's largest western bars and museums. (A great rehearsal area in the main showroom.) Enough with the credits already he was to learn here not to upstage the main act as he was promptly told after thankfully his show of this little known fact. Frederick would take this to heart as he would his love for the Italian people as he began to learn Italian to feel more close to these great people. His first major success would have to last him though as he would go through many personell changes and evolutions before the decade was over.
1980/1982 - Frederick continued to do shows varying from close-up, stage, standup, cabaret magic, and mentalism with some hypnosis sprinkled in. This was a very tough time for him as he began to learn that talent could go only so far. Doing shows either solo or with his lifelong friend Tony O. he would find bar magic a pleasant diversion from the day to day realities of life. It seems the road to success was paved with barbed wire. Tragedy would strike in 1982 when he damaged one of his fingers enough for him to once again have to concider the prospect of giving up on his direction in life. Soul searching he was to take a great gamble in life and pool as his available resources togeather to attend the world's largest magical arts and sciences meet in the world. Here he would discover his dream had only just begun.
1982/1984 - Down and out he arrived at the event as always with no preconceived idea of the outcome beyond if he was really good enough as people back home seemed to think. To his surprise he would meet lifelong friends, James R., Hank R., Johnny P., and G and D. They would create a impression on his mind that he would not ever forget. His motivations were simple they had accepted him as a equal when he was at his darkest hour. Particularly James, Hank, and Dove had made him feel that he could be special again. His thoughts, interjections, and ideals all seemed to finally be in sinc here and he would cherish there company from this time forward. Having regained his confidence he would return from this event supercharged. Frederick's luck was changing and he knew it and he began learning to build Illusions and to think more creatively than ever before. Special thanks to Michael P. and Brian H. for these in those times of need. He was to devote much of his time dissecting his hypnotic methods and demystifying the magical arts and sciences mostly due to the influence of James R. Always a deep believer in the impossible becoming possible he would discover that his gift to hypnotize was better put as his gift to expand imaginations. Keeping in touch with his new comrades in arts he was to recieve a invitation to come back to the states to help his good friend James on a project he was working on. This would prove a highlight as he learned much from there common interests and was to have a unexpected reward. Late in 1984 Frederick appeared with James in People Magazine in a full page suspended floating on a sword. This would prove to him that anything was possible even to a underdog such as he. He would learn much from this experience with the guidance of James at this time.
1984/1988 - During this time of transition Frederick did what paid the bills. Once doing 8 shows in 8 hours something he would learn here was that there were limits to how far a person could push. Combining Hypnotism and Magic became his single focus here and he was to learn that there was a limit to being the well rounded professional. Sometime soon he would have to choose but it could wait for now. (Frederick was finding himself working some 14 to 18 hours 7 days a week in order to survive and make ends meet.) A break occurred in 1988 when he was selected to perform for a special event held for many of the organizers of the 88 Olympics in which Frank K. chairman for OCO would attend. So moved was Frank K. by this performance he attempted place Frederick into the games opening ceremonies but it was too late timing wise. Frederick still obtained the only letter directly from the head of the olympic committee of any performer in attendance or at the event. This would become a cherished momento of Frederick's achievements.
1988/1990 - Frederick would work harder than he ever had with less results as he struggled to better himself and his art. Sometimes he found himself living off less than 60 cents a day. Times were hard and getting harder. He had many high and lows at this time period and recalls performing for a charity in which $60,000 mink coats were being auctioned off and the talent had been told they could not eat anything under no circumstances. (This was after Frederick hadn't eaten for over 3 days.) Such was his professionalism he didn't question it but later mentioned how good mink coats began looking. Something had to give and it did as in 1990 he began to get very busy again doing mostly standup magic and mentalism, filling the odd request for hypnotic shows. Here also he met his best friend Ava L. and began working with her on a duo act. (They met at a show Frederick was doing one night.) Then before Frederick knew it they had become a trio, Michael B. coming into the picture as a combined sound and light tech. (They met through a mutual music friend and so the story goes.) His travels during this period began to amplify. During this time frame Frederick was to appear on a Ray Bradbury Trilogy as a special talent.
1990/1992 - Things were beginning to expand exponentially in Frederick's career as he began doing large amounts of stage shows both with "The Hip Show" and the Illusion show. These shows would sometimes transverse some 40,000k per week. Business was good. He was doing the national circuit now and the demands on his time were becoming astronomical. His show now comprised a full evening literally of variety entertainment. He was now doing more shows than he had ever dared dream of and literally the full gambit. Hypnotic shows / Illusion Shows for nightclubs and Cabarets, close-up magic and parlour magic for restaurants and hotels the list goes on. James G. Assisting for extended tours during this time. He culminated each year with at least one sometimes several very spectacular stunts as listed below. July 9th ,1991 - Escape from a Crane - recorded by The Herald, Sun, and CFCN. October 28th,1992 - Hypnosis via Radio - Daily Herald, CIFM October 30th, 1992 - Mass Hypnosis over the airwaves - GFGP
1992/1994 - Frederick M. learns the hard way not to put eggs in one basket as recession shockwaves echo into his arena. This was a tough time as He looks to other avenues sometimes hand writing every person he does business with making approximately 10,000 letters for the mailman every year this begins to wear him out. Doing any kind of show during this time is difficult at best. Frederick decides to take "The International Hip Show" to new heights here he has lots of time to think about it as he recovers and devotes a great deal of his time to marketing and advertizing ideas rather than shows. Finding work when he can he comes upon the idea of combining hypnosis and bringing it truly into the 21st century where hypnosis is just a term. Succeeds on CFCN - Rene N. Show Hypnosis via television. This has brought to full circle his ability to hypnotize in all medias. In 1992 Frederick turns truly international branching out worldwide. Learns that everything has changed as he moves to the big leagues.
1994/1996 - Frederick achieves a lifetime goal being known in 6 Continents and a new dream has begun. That of becoming a household name. He continues to perform his hypnotic show mostly internationally in focus and in the real world combining concepts, ideas and imagination to do the most incredible magic of all. The Magic of Dreams come true. Once in a while to blow off the cobwebs from other skills he has gained over the years he can be found performing close-up magic and mentalism just for fun somewhere in a town near you. Recently in 1996 at a governor and state sponsored event he was judged "the most popular entertainer in the state." - Star Bulletin
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