New York's corporate event market is the most demanding in America: discerning audiences, premium venues, and clients who've seen every trick in the book. Scott has worked NYC corporate events, trade shows, and golf events for years. Based in Kansas City, flying to New York for engagements throughout the corporate calendar.
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New York City is the hardest corporate event market to work successfully as a visiting performer. Audiences are sophisticated, clients are demanding, and the venues range from the Plaza ballrooms to Brooklyn loft spaces to Midtown private clubs. Every engagement has its own dynamic. A performer who is comfortable in Midwestern conference rooms often falls apart in a Manhattan client-appreciation event because the expectations are calibrated to what Fortune 500 New York firms can and do book: the very best entertainment their industry has to offer.
Scott's NYC work holds up in that environment because the foundation is the same 25 years of Fortune 500 client work that plays anywhere. The Kansas City Chiefs. Hallmark. Pfizer. LinkedIn. T-Mobile. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. John Deere at the Bellagio. A working corporate magician who has performed at that tier for two decades can walk into a Manhattan client dinner or a Long Island golf event and perform work that holds.
NYC bookings have spanned three categories. Corporate events and private dinners: annual meetings, client-appreciation evenings, product launches, and internal leadership offsites held in NYC hotels, private clubs, and corporate event venues. Trade shows at the Javits Center and smaller Manhattan trade venues, where the booth-traffic dynamics play the same way they do in Chicago or Vegas: exhibitors fighting for attention, a trained magician warming prospects for the sales team. And golf events: corporate outings and client-appreciation tournaments at courses in Westchester, Long Island, and New Jersey, where magic works particularly well during the long clubhouse portions of a golf day when prospects are looking for social entertainment between the round and the dinner.
The NYC performer economy is deep and expensive. Corporate clients hiring a visiting KC-based magician over a Manhattan-local performer are often making the calculation that the 25-year Fortune 500 track record plus reasonable travel cost beats paying a premium local rate for comparable quality. That calculation holds up on most engagements.
Every routine centers on volunteers from the audience. The selection rotates based on the room, the runtime, and what will land hardest with the crowd in front of Scott. None of these are demonstrations of skill. They are designed to fool people, and to give the room a shared moment they keep talking about after the night ends.
Four volunteers come up. One envelope holds a hundred-dollar bill. One by one, three are eliminated game-show style. The last volunteer picks: switch or stay. They lose. Scott wins. Nobody knows how. The volunteer goes home with a consolation prize and a story.
A volunteer signs a card. It vanishes. It reappears, frozen inside a solid block of ice that has been sitting in plain view the entire time.
The whole audience shouts out numbers, added together on someone's phone. The total matches a prediction unrolled across the stage, four feet long. Flipped upside down, the digits spell out the company name, the guest of honor, or whatever the night is celebrating.
A volunteer scrambles a cube themselves. Scott solves it in three seconds behind his back. Then does it again. This time, halfway through, the second cube vanishes.
The event planner sends a photo of the CEO or guest of honor ahead of time. On stage, they sign it, watch it get ripped up, and watch it come back together with the signature intact on the restored piece.
Two volunteers, hands locked into a Victorian-looking contraption. The fun is in their faces, not the gag.
Other routines rotate in: a signed paperback page that tears itself out and reappears in Scott's pocket; a drink-mixing trick where everything pours together and separates back; a jelly-bean prediction strong enough to fool other working magicians. The final running order, along with any custom touches like the photo or the prediction, gets settled on a pre-event call.
A 30–60 minute feature for a corporate annual meeting, client dinner, product launch, or leadership offsite in NYC. More on stage shows →
Strolling close-up magic at Manhattan client-appreciation dinners, private receptions, and hospitality events. Particularly effective at venues where the evening flow is cocktails → dinner → after-dinner conversation. More on close-up →
Booth floor work at the Javits Center or other NYC trade show venues. Effective for B2B exhibitors running multi-day shows where booth traffic has real pipeline value. More on trade shows →
Close-up magic at corporate golf tournaments: the clubhouse portion, the pre-round breakfast, and the post-round dinner. Particularly strong at Westchester, Long Island, and North Jersey courses where the golf day has substantial social-entertainment windows.
Every engagement begins with a conversation. You tell Scott about the evening: the audience, the tone, the outcome you're trying to land. What reference material the room will find funny. Whether there's a retiring executive whose thirty-year tenure deserves a callback. A product launch you want written into the closing illusion. A sales number the CFO wants celebrated.
Those details get worked into the show before the night arrives. Most of the job happens before Scott walks on stage.
What the venue needs to provide. Very little. A defined performance area and an outlet within fifty feet of the stage. Scott brings his own props, his own lighting where needed, and a full professional wireless microphone and PA system. A venue mic is optional, never required. His PA is also available for the client's use during the evening if you want it for music, announcements, or another speaker. He arrives early, works the room before the show, and leaves you free to focus on the hundred other things a corporate event has running.
Audience range. Twenty people in a boardroom, a thousand in a hotel ballroom, or any number in between. For very large rooms, confidence monitors or a house camera feed are standard, and most venues that size already run them.
NYC engagements are custom-quoted based on format, duration, venue, and travel. Even with travel, KC-to-NYC booking costs are typically lower than comparable NYC-local performer rates for equivalent quality tier. Proposal within 24 hours.
Personal reply within twenty-four hours of inquiry, followed by a proposal. Holds are released in the order received.
Final figures depend on format, audience, travel, and custom content.
Scott also performs for adult private parties and milestone birthdays and children's birthdays. Different formats, same standard.
No. Scott is based in Kansas City and flies to New York for bookings. Travel, lodging, and per-diem are itemized separately in the proposal. For most engagements, the KC-to-NYC all-in cost is meaningfully less than booking a comparably-credentialed NYC-local performer; NYC-headquartered corporate clients are often surprised by the math.
Various Manhattan hotels and private clubs, the Javits Center for trade show bookings, and corporate event venues across the five boroughs plus the surrounding metro (Long Island, Westchester, North Jersey). Specific venues on request. Many are under event-partner NDAs.
The standard format: Scott arrives during the morning breakfast or shotgun-start windows and performs close-up magic in the clubhouse while players are assembling. During the round, Scott waits off-course. Scott resumes close-up magic during the post-round cocktails and the dinner that follows. Most effective at corporate outings where the social-entertainment portion of the day matters as much as the golf itself, which is most of them.
Yes. Scott has performed for financial services clients, including investment firms and asset managers (some are in the client list, others are under NDA). Finance-industry audiences are typically discerning and skeptical, which is actually the ideal audience for magic that works. The moment they realize they can't explain what just happened lands harder than with a softer audience.
Yes. Common format: stage show opening night, close-up strolling at the next night's dinner, trade show booth activation the third day. Multi-day packages are priced together and typically meaningfully cheaper per-day than three separate bookings.
NYC dates tend to fill earliest of any market Scott works. Major events and multi-day corporate engagements book 6+ months ahead. Smaller dinners and private events typically book 2-3 months ahead. Last-minute inquiries welcome.
