If you are looking for a guy in a purple suit making silks and rabbits appear, this is not the show for you. But if you need professional, high-quality entertainment for corporate or family audiences, Michael delivers just that. It is the format that fits company-wide kickoffs, holiday parties, fundraisers, and any event where the whole room is sitting down to watch one performance together.
What the stage show is
Michael's show is the main event. The structure is what you imagine when you think of a stand-up show: Michael on a stage (or at the front of the room), performing a prepared, structured, scripted set list for a seated audience.
The show is a carefully crafted combination of magic, mentalism, and comedy. Throughout the show, Michael will do everything from read your mind to produce drinking glasses to teleport cards, but most importantly, he will entertain you and your guests.
The show is engaging. It is not a "sit there and watch me perform at you" kind of show, but rather, audience members are brought on stage or even participate from their seats. The magic plays for the whole room, so even those in the back feel like a part of the show.
The comedy is light-hearted, sarcastic, self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek. Kept clean enough for any audience.
The events where the stage show fits
Stage shows are for when there is a sit-down portion to the event and a room of people facing the same direction. Michael's stage show works at:
- Corporate galas, holiday parties, and annual events
- Sales kickoffs and conference keynote entertainment
- Nonprofit fundraisers and charity galas
- College and university student-life events
- Award banquets and recognition dinners
- Some weddings when the reception structure lends itself to a full seated show rather than a cocktail-hour format
For corporate clients specifically, this is the show Michael books most for company-wide gatherings.
How long the stage show runs
The standard stage show is 50 to 60 minutes. Michael also performs shorter sets when the event calls for it: 15-minute opening sets, 20-minute keynote entertainment slots, 30-minute team-meeting performances. For longer runs or two-part evenings, the show can be expanded. Not sure what's best for you? Michael will happily go over the details with you on the call to figure out the right length.
Audience size and how the show scales
Stage magic is designed to play at scale. Michael has performed for everything from intimate company dinners of 40 to fundraiser galas with audiences over 1,000. The material Michael performs is designed to play to the whole room. Both visual magic and interactive mentalism provide audience involvement that keeps people who are not on stage just as invested as the volunteers who are.
What Michael needs at the venue
Most venues that already host corporate events have what the stage show needs. The basics:
- A defined performance area or stage
- A sound system with a wireless microphone
- Optionally, video projection for certain shows that include a screen element
In some cases Michael can bring his own sound system depending on the event. Michael will go over everything on the call, and after booking, he provides a rider that confirms the specifics for the venue.
Customizing the stage show
Michael can provide varying degrees of customization with his show. He often weaves in specific messages or theming that tie in to a product the company sells, play off a running joke with the audience, or call back to a theme the planner has built around. Mentalism routines in particular are easy to personalize, since the volunteers and the moments revealed can be shaped around who is in the audience.
If there is a VIP, a guest of honor, or someone the host particularly wants brought into the show, Michael takes that brief before the event and builds those moments in.
Why book Michael for a stage show in North Carolina
Michael offers an experience that you cannot get anywhere else.
Michael is a multi-award-winning entertainer, and in 2025 he represented the United States at the FISM World Championship of Magic in Turin, Italy, and won the title of Most Original Act. FISM is often called "the Olympics of Magic," and the Most Original Act category honors creativity at the highest level the art form recognizes. It is a credential most magicians never come close to.
He is also an International Brotherhood of Magicians Close-Up Champion (with the People's Choice award the same year), a Brad Jacobs People's Choice recipient, and he has been awarded a "Masters of Magic" degree from the prestigious invite-only 4F Convention.
Michael's work has also been featured on The CW's Masters of Illusion nationally and on Charlotte Today (WCNC) locally. He is a member of the cast of The Magician's Table (the London-originated magic-theater show, now touring nationwide). And he has over 300 five-star Google reviews from corporate planners, event coordinators, wedding couples, and private hosts across North Carolina and beyond singing his praises.
If you want your guests to have the time of their lives, you cannot go wrong with Michael Bloemeke's Award-Winning Magic.
Other ways Michael can perform at your event
If a full stage show is not the right fit, Michael also offers mingling magic (strolling close-up for cocktail hours and receptions) and a formal close-up show (a seated set for smaller groups around a table). Many events combine formats: a cocktail-hour mingling set leading into a seated stage show is a common corporate-event shape.
To check availability and talk through what would fit your event in Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, or anywhere in North Carolina, the contact form below is the fastest way to start. Michael answers personally and quickly.