Maciej,
Thank you for your wishes!
Now I will be completely honest although I did something I would probably judge hard when heard from other magicians. I came up with my act only 3 days prior to the show! =( And I had experienced only with one of the sleights/trick and zero experiences with performing on music. Yeah, I know.
Honestly, the communication with the organizers was rather bad and I wanted to quit the gig since it was not paid and I promised them different act. However, a week before the show one of the organizers stuff who administrated Facebook make a huge announcement about me joining the Cabaret and they marked both - my artistic facebook and my personal Facebook. I try to have them separated, on my personal Facebook I'm keeping a lot of friends from my non-magician past and I don't want to feed them with a post like this too often. Immediately I began received messages from a lot of my friends if they should show up and if it will be worthy.
What should I do? I cannot tell them, that the show isn't worthy because that just wasn't true. I also cannot tell them that I'm an unprepared idiot. So I just reply one by one that I really appreciate their interest but I do not have the tickets in charge and I have no idea if any left.
So here I was - huge announcement, possibilities of friends showing just because of me... I just cannot quit. I know it wasn't the wisest decision, but I just couldn't quit. I started to thought to myself that I should be able to put togheter act which will fit and will be decent and if not I will experience a huge burn on the stage and that will teach me hopefully for the rest of my life.
TL;DR - the 'routine' and the results:
Since it was a Fetish Burlesque Night I decidet to go with a romantic dinner table setup - I was standing on the left side of the table, one of the beautiful female asistent was sitting on the right side.
On the table was a foolowing items:
2x red romantic gift box
1x small torch (torch to rose - behind the giftboxes
1x empty vase
1x table cloth
1x red fan (behind the giftboxex, the color blend with the tablecloth)
1x snowstorm 'cookie' under the fan
1x rose candle - tall
1x flash rope (approx. 30 cm - in front on the plain view of the spectators)
1x trash bin with installed pyro mini
1x snow-globe (paperweight)
1x wine bottle
1x glass wine with poured wine (white one)
The music I choose was Dean Martin - Sway.
I approached the table and smiled at the lady on the chair. Then I grab the torch with my left hand and with my right hand I produce the lighten match - I lighted the torch with the match, toss the match away and wannabe artistically lighted the candle with the torch. Then I produced the rose from the torch, smelled the rose, smiled and put it inside the vase on the table.
Then I opened the first box and there was a huge silver armband. I gave it to her and she refused - I tossed the armband to the trash bin and fire comes out (from the pyro mini - it goes well every time - even on general rehearsal, but when performed 'for real' it failed - I'm so glad it was there only for the effect of fire and it wasn't mandatory! )
Then a went behind her and grab the snow-globe and make it snow - that grabs her interest (i needed to do that to palm the pearl necklace from one of my pockets). Then I went back, picked up the flash rope, lifted it up and lighted it from the now burning candle and produced the pearl necklace. Again, she was not happy and I tossed the necklace to the trash bin again.
She was still caught by the snow-globe, so I took the globe, took a white napkin and started polishing the globe. When I was polishing the globe it was shaken by the polishing and the snow appeared in the ball - the lady was child-like stunned. I gave her the globe, take out the fan with the hidden cookie and performed the snowstorm.
Conclusion:
Although I do believe that for a layman people it was decent it doesn't make sense to me too much. I will definitely keep this as a solid ground, but I wanted to do the act at least 6 mins long (the only 'negative' reaction - and I do believe very reasonable - I received was something about the duration - the spectators really liked what they saw and the story, but when they think "Now we are going somewhere!" the act was over).
For the next time I wanted everything in this act to have its own purpose - I mean, why do I exactly produce lighted match to light up the torch and with the torch the candle? I can use the matches for the candle, that would make sense.
Also, I will produce the fan next time from the sleeves or similar and then make it disappear - like it was only part of the "dreaming about snowing" etc. etc.
If you are still reading, thank you for your time and I would appreciate any tips - the hardest, in the end, wasn't the slights, but the music, performing with the whole body, facial expressions, and the whole 'theatrical' part - totally different than a walk around magic and I'm very glad that I experienced it.
C.