The place was Sea Points Weitzman Hall,the year was 1969? the venue was packed and I had invited a girl from the office staff to come and see what Max Collie was all about,was her name Julie? she was blonde for sure and lived around the Wetton area.
We sat about mid floor,right of the center isle,Max invited some from the audience to join him on stage and from those he built up his show.
We sat about mid floor,right of the center isle,Max invited some from the audience to join him on stage and from those he built up his show.
Max Collie
From those on the stage Max would soon have them under and make them do various acts,one was to give a guy a raw potatoe,tell him its was a nice sweet apple and enjoy it while he got on with the show,then while the potatoe was fast disapearing,Max woke the guy up,he was horrified to see and taste what he was eating!
Another became Bob Hope,wow,this guy is good thought I ,this was more than some fluky show,it was live theater,remember we had no TV here back then.
The stage lot all quite fast asleep.
Then came an attempt to put the entire audience under a spell,we had to stand up and hold our arms above us and think deeply,I was trying not to be sent under and was still ok when the attempt was done.Julie was ok too it seemed,the show ran its course and Max bid us all good night and folk started to leave. I then turned to Julie and started to leave,only to find she was fast asleep,when I tried to wake her she was just out,so there I was on my first date,with a hypnotised girl.
Amazing!
Roy
