Clown Act Omnibus: Everything You Need to Know About Clowning Plus over 200 Clown Stunts (Paperback)

by Wes McVicar (Author)

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Amazon.com Review
Everything you always wanted to know about clowning (and didn't know whom to ask) is here in this inexpensive, paperback book. We have yet to see any other clown-act book as complete as this. Includes over 200 workable clown acts for beginners, intermediates and advanced participants. All acts are classified by type, equipment needed, gymnastic skills, and practice required. The book is divided into nine sections, and they cover: Clowning as an Art, Pantomime, Clown Types, Costumes, Make-up, Suggestions for Programming, Production Ideas, Properties and Stunts.

Product Description
All you ever wanted to know about clowning is here. Includes over 200 workable clown acts for beginners, intermediates and advanced participants. All acts are classified by type, equipment needed, gymnastic skills, and practice required.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Meriwether Publishing; 2 edition (September 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916260410
• ISBN-13: 978-0916260415
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #439,052 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Clown ACT Omnibus, July 16, 2000

By	Tom Raymond (Wausau, WI USA) - See all my reviews

A very nice collection of clown skits (over 200), for beginners, intermediate & advanced, both individuals and for groups.  Acts are classified by type, equipment needed, gymnastic skills, and practice required. I greatly appreciated this, since it allowed me to skip things either too difficult, or that I simply wasn't interested in. The book also includes instructions on the making of some basic props for clowning and magic acts as well. The book is divided into nine sections, and they cover: Clowning as an Art, Pantomime, Clown Types, Costumes, Make-up, Suggestions for Programming, Production Ideas, Properties and Stunts.

Having said that, bear in mind from the title that the book focuses on Clown Acts (& routines) -- it's not a book on how to clown, how to apply make-up, how to develop your clown character, etc -- for that, I'd recommend Creative Clowning and Strutter's Complete Guide to Clown Makeup, both available here at Amazon.com I rate this 3 clowns

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Clown Act Omnibus : Everything You Need to Know About Clowni, June 10, 2001

By	jasmina zuvela (Pretoria, GAUTENG South Africa) - See all my reviews

The front page of the book is exellent. It makes you believe that you have the right book in your hands. "Everything you need to know about clowning plus over 200 clown stunts" sounds professional. So, from the marketing point of view there is no mistake. Unfortunately the content of the book is absolutely unusable. I've been interested to read about acts suitable for single clowns, but no single one I could recommende to anyone. So, I'm really very dissapoitment with this book and unfortunately I have made the wrong investment bying it.

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not really what I was looking for, August 24, 1998

By A Customer

I bought this book with the hope that it would give me truck loads of information on clowning/costume/makeup. As it turns out, it's really just a book of skits. It's not that they weren't funny, but it took alot of the fun out of it. Maybe I had too high of hopes for a clowning book, but I'll be returning this one.