CONTACT: Julie Navejar
kajam03@tamuk.edu or 361-593-2590

Hypnotist, Magician Amaze, Entertain Audiences at Texas A&M-Kingsville

KINGSVILLE (February 11, 2002) — A hypnotist works magic on the mind and a magician works magic on the eye. Master Hypnotist C.J. Johnson and Magician Brian Brushwood will share the bill on stage at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in ballroom A of the Student Union Building.

Johnson will put people to sleep on stage, but those in the audience will remain wide awake with amazement and laughter as they see their friends and classmates perform during the show.

As Johnson takes volunteers from the audience, he will take care to hypnotize them in a safe and ethical manner. The audience will have the opportunity to make suggestions for routines performed with the help of the volunteers.

However, Johnson's goal is to make sure the volunteers on stage have a good time and to show it is not necessary to put people in embarrassing or uncomfortable situations.

"It is never the same show twice. I never know exactly where the volunteers are going to go with the suggestions I give so often I am just as surprised as the audience," Johnson said. "I never violate the trust of people give me when joining me on stage. I want to come back again."

In one show, Brushwood performs fire eating, escapes from an audience-tied straitjacket,
performs sleight of hand, breaks cinder blocks over his head, sticks nails in his nose, reads minds, lays on a bed of nails and much more.

He has performed his incredible brand of "bizarre magic" for six years touring coast to coast at colleges and clubs. He has also appeared on national television programs such as "The Tonight Show," "The Roseanne Show" and "Talk Soup."

Brushwood is a two-time winner of the Best Magic award from the Texas Association of Magicians.

Admission is free to see both entertainers. For more information call 361-593-2760.

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