The corporate holiday season is a crowded calendar. Scott builds the one night your team will still be talking about in February: an after-dinner stage feature, a strolling cocktail hour, or both.
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Corporate holiday parties are a strange assignment. The planner, usually one person on top of a dozen other year-end priorities, has three weeks to produce an evening that's memorable enough to feel like a thank-you but not so produced that it reads as over-the-top. The budget is real. The expectations are higher than anyone says out loud. And the default options are familiar: a band that's fine, a DJ that's fine, a photo booth that's fine.
What Scott does at a holiday party is none of those things. A thirty- to forty-minute stage feature after dinner, strolling close-up magic during cocktails, or both across one evening. What you end up with is a story people tell their spouses the next morning.
Twenty-five years of Kansas City holiday parties. The Chiefs, Hallmark, Lockton, Workday, American Century, Hyatt, and dozens of smaller companies in rotation year after year.
One to two hours of close-up magic during the pre-dinner reception. Scott moves through the room performing sleight-of-hand for small groups. The best icebreaker your HR team will book this year.
Thirty to forty-five minutes on stage, typically right after the meal. The evening's centerpiece, and the part your CEO will reference in their opening remarks next year.
Strolling magic during cocktails, followed by a sit-down stage show. The best scope for galas, senior-leadership dinners, and any party where you want one engagement running through the whole night.
Holiday parties have their own rhythm. The room has had a few drinks by the time the show starts. The crowd is a mix of employees, spouses, and sometimes clients. The ask is simple: give them a good night.
Scott plans every holiday engagement with three things in mind. First, the inside references: who's retiring, what the sales number was, which team had the banner year. Callbacks during the show are the difference between a generic magic act and something that feels made for the company. Second, the energy calibration. Holiday crowds don't want to be lectured or over-produced, so the pacing is warmer than a pure corporate keynote. Third, the clean ending. Every routine lands on a laugh, not a trick, so the room turns back to their tables in a good mood.
When to book. Q4 fills fastest. Dates in the first two weeks of December are typically held by summer. If your party is the week before Christmas, contact no later than September.
Magic Scott was so entertaining for our company Christmas party. The tricks were amazing and the audience (employees) participation made it so much fun and personal. Everyone was very impressed.
I have known Magic Scott for years... he has entertained me and my colleagues at numerous holiday parties and has always delivered.
Every holiday engagement is custom-quoted. After-dinner stage features, strolling-only engagements, and full-evening bookings (cocktails plus stage show) are each scoped individually based on the audience, the runtime, and the format. Out-of-metro travel is itemized separately.
Personal reply within twenty-four hours of inquiry, followed by a proposal. Holds are released in the order received.
Scoped individually. Final figures depend on format, audience, travel, and custom content.
Scott also performs for adult private parties and children's birthdays. Different formats, same standard.
No later than September for the first two weeks of December, which fill first. Late-December and early-January dates typically have more availability. Short-notice December bookings are worth asking about (cancellations happen), but plan around the earlier lead time.
It's built for exactly that room. Holiday audiences are broader than a straight-company keynote, so the pacing and material are calibrated so that an employee's spouse who has never been to a company event feels as included as the executive team.
Yes. A retiring executive, a big sales number, an acquisition, a team that had a banner year: any of these can be written into callbacks during the show. A briefing call a couple of weeks before is typically all that's needed.
Most of the time. Restaurants and private event spaces work well for parties up to about 150. For strolling magic, any venue with tables and guests works. For a stage feature, the room needs a defined focal point the whole audience can see. We'll assess on the planning call.
They solve different problems. A DJ or band provides atmosphere: music that plays under conversation. A magician is the evening's centerpiece, the part people stop and watch. Many holiday parties book both, with Scott as the after-dinner feature before the music starts.
Fully clean, built specifically for professional audiences. Twenty-five years of corporate and family engagements inform the material choices.