Carroll Baker · Comedy Magician & Mentalist Columbus, Ohio · 614-800-8909

Prom & After Prom · Ohio

The hardest room in the world is a room full of teenagers.

I have spent 35 years walking up to strangers who did not ask for a magician and winning them over in about ninety seconds. That is the whole skill, and it is exactly what a prom needs. I work your room table to table. No stage, no sound system, nothing for your committee to run.

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Why this works when a show does not

Nobody has to sit down, and nobody has to be a good sport.

Here is the problem with booking a stage act for a prom. You have to stop everything, get four hundred teenagers to sit still and face one direction, and hope they play along. If it does not land in the first minute, everybody in that room knows it.

Close-up magic does not ask for any of that. I move through the room while your night carries on around me. Small groups, four or five at a time, a few feet away. Nobody is put on the spot in front of the whole school, so nobody has to protect their dignity, which is the real reason teenagers resist being entertained.

What happens instead is that they pull their friends over. That is the tell that it is working, and it is what a prom committee is actually buying: something happening in the room that people choose to walk toward.

Two different nights, two different jobs

Which one are you planning?

They are not the same booking and they should not be priced the same. One is a dressed-up evening with a schedule. The other is the middle of the night, and that is a different ask.

The evening itself

Prom

Strolling close-up magic through your room, working around dinner, photos, the DJ and the crowning rather than interrupting any of it.

From $475 See prom details and check your date Late night

After Prom

The same magic, built for a room that is already up late. It fits between the games, the food and the prize drawings without needing a slot of its own.

From $600 See after prom details and check your date

Booking both nights? Say so on either form and I will quote them together. Columbus and all over Ohio. Travel is built in within about fifty miles of Columbus.

In their words

What it looks like when it lands.

“Carroll was AMAZING with our students at Prom. He went table to table with his tricks, which were incredible! We were all wowed by his abilities.”

Abby P. Booked him for her school’s prom

“This is the 2nd time in 5 months that I’ve hired Carroll Baker to do WALK AROUND magic! He performed at my company Christmas party, and just this past weekend for a graduating class of high school seniors. He can mesmerize anyone of ANY age!”

Candida P. Booked him for a graduating class

“He kept even our most challenging guests engaged! Children, teens, and adults all loved him. I received many compliments on how fun and different it was to have him at the party.”

Hope B. Roving magic at a large event

“He entertained for my son’s graduation party by going table to table as people were socializing and performed simple card and coin tricks which literally blew their minds. Everyone of our guests that saw him raved and asked, ‘Where did you find him?’”

Lilli S. Graduation party

Who you are booking

Thirty-five years of walking up to strangers.

I have been a full-time professional magician since 1991 and I have performed more than ten thousand shows. For close to thirty of those years I worked restaurants in Columbus, most weeks seven nights a week, going table to table to people who were mid-meal and mid-conversation and had not asked for a magician.

That is the same job as a prom, in a nicer outfit. You get about five seconds to read a table and decide what they will give you, and about ninety more to earn the rest of it. Doing that a few thousand times is the only training that matters for a room like yours.

  • Full-time professional since 1991, more than 10,000 shows performed
  • A six-day run in the Close Up Gallery at the Magic Castle in Hollywood
  • Society of American Magicians Houdini-Thurston Award and Magician of the Year
  • Seven-time International Brotherhood of Magicians Close-Up Magician of the Year
  • I already work in Ohio schools, teaching after-school magic classes and performing assemblies
Carroll Baker, comedy magician and mentalist, Columbus Ohio

The part that should matter to a committee

If your students do not enjoy it, you pay nothing.

Every booking carries the same promise, and it is not a gimmick. Somebody on your committee has to stand up afterward and own the choice of entertainment. That risk should be mine, not theirs. In thirty-five years nobody has ever claimed it.

Prom After Prom