Welcome! As another newbie I am pleased to have you in my group. Can't wait to catch your performance in person. Will definitely watch tonite.

DrGrimm,

Fabulous to hear you'll be joining us! You can see the Pendragons tonight on America's Got Talent, of course, and if you'd like to attend Charlotte's special chat, you'll also want to come in WEDNESDAY night at 10pm Eastern, 7pm Pacific time. .

Hope to see you there!

I will see you there Dr.Grim! I hope you show up with a big smile!

Don't go here, Chsrlotte: It'll open you up to too many things that don't relate to illusion--or--forget it.

I have trouble getting into chat, so I'll ask you these here. How much gymnastics training have you and Jonathon had? Who has inspired you the most? How long does it take you to perfect an illusion? Who was the first to come up with illusion as a way of life, you or your husband?

I watched all of Americas Got Talent. I saw the 80 yr old tapdancer and the 4 yr old vocalist. I watched the whole show aand never saw you. Why not"

It gives you something in common with the rest of us.

I don't know why AGT made the decision it did, I just know that due to the vagaries of television these things sometimes happen.

What I did last night was hit You Tube and My Space and watched all the Pendragon stuff and pretended it was on America's Got Talent. Except for Helice telling me to "shut up, stop saying 'you're going to Vegas, you're going to Vegas' " every five seconds, it was really fun!

Liz, I know you're having trouble getting into chat, start early so you can get there on time, and if it happens to let you right in...don't move!

Sorry guys! The business of entertainment is 90% disappointment. When you get used to that...you will be ok!

What I didn't know until last evening...is there will be 2 or 3 more of these "massive" 2 hour marathon episodes!!! My own familiarity with the past program, is there is one season opening before the the seasonal show. Because the Olympics and the Presidental Conventions have wiped out the summer season, most of this will air in the Fall! How they plan to skip over 2 months of non airing of their program..to Sept. is beyond me and out of my hands.

I was told by an associate, our appearance has been featured in a national commercial as well as Monday's Entertainment Tonight (neither of which I can find on line).

Apparently, we will be on next week or the following week or both and in early late August, early Sept. They do not tell the contestants when and if they are on the program. I certainly don't expect anyone to sit through 2 or 3 more hours of that stuff to watch 2 minutes of our material. To be honest, the material is all on You Tube and My Space and our own website... You'll only miss some judges smiling faces. .

I did take note, most of the summer's programming is all Reality TV contests... several takes on the original American Idol. Everything from Circus to Nashville Country Singers. Last eve's segment of AGT seemed to want to prove the point - they are bigger and badder than the rest of what is out there. Maybe they are, but in doing so...trying to prove 35,000 performers auditioned for this show, they might loose what intimacy they may have once had. Part of the interest in TV, is the personalities. The box in your living room is only so big, so a performer must play "small", rather than big. It is my opinion, shows like AGT, American Idol have been successful, because they were able to reach that fine balance of big and "I'm here in your lving room"... If you happen to see one of the performers from a popular TV program shopping, say a Jay Leno, he is approachable, because he has been in your home. AGT and American Idol perfected that formula, but it was lost in last eve's show...

Liz, to answer your other questions, Jonathan has been a magician since he was a young boy. He is a trained actor... He is the real gymnast, an all- American gymnast. He used these talents as a stuntman for many years. In fact it can easily be said his best piece of magic was doubling John Belushi for the back hand springs down the church aisle in the Blue's Brothers. I have had gymnastics training, but training muscles in gymnastics works antagonistically against the muscles you train in dance.

See you tonight!

Charlotte

Please forgive my rudeness--I forgot to welcome you!

WELCOME TO FOOLMOON, CHARLOTTE!!!!!!

You're forgiven! I'm so sorry, my chat ended so abruptly! We had one of those California brown outs...our power went off, at first for a few minutes, then for a about a half hour. I am questioning if is was one, as it was a bit late in the day! It is over 100 degrees here today, and no one expected this high of temperature.

I hope to chat again soon. You were all very enjoyable with great questions. I will check in, so please feel free to ask away... Night!

Since it sounds like you didn't make it back to the chat I'll assume I'm not being too redundant by saying thanks for the chat. It was interesting and fun. If you solve the brown out trick maybe sometime you could show us how that's done.

As we touched on briefly in last night's chat, the Pendragons are known for performing the fastest "Metamorphosis" in the magic profession.

Here's a video from YouTube showing The Pendragons, Charlotte and Jonathan, performing their lightning-fast version of Metamorphosis! (please note Charlotte's costume color!)



Isn't this illusion fabulous? Dax and I think so. In fact, on our very first date, by chance we were at an outdoor venue where we saw the Pendragons perform this very illusion, and it was so memorable for us that we've talked about it for years. Imagine what a thrill it was for us to finally get to talk with Charlotte herself!

We believe that Charlotte Pendragon will be checking in on this thread from time to time, so feel free to offer comments, compliments, and questions!