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Well-known east Auckland entertainer Dave Upfold is bringing his side-splitting comedy stage hypnosis show to Bucklands Beach.
Over the past two decades Upfold has performed his popular all-ages shows at public venues across the community.
His next one will be staged at the Bucklands and Eastern Beaches Memorial Hall on The Parade in Bucklands Beach from 7pm-8.30pm on Saturday, March 29.
It will be his 100th show in east Auckland and he’s done about 2000 of them around the country.
“It’s 90 minutes of fall-off-the-chair laughter,” Upfold told the Times.
“Even I crack up and I don’t know what’s going to happen as there’s no script.”
One of the skits Upfold does is to convince a person who he’s hypnotised that they’ve won $1 million.
“The only problem is when I say, ‘wake up, wide awake’, they won’t remember it, but the feeling is great.
“It’s also getting the ‘world’s greatest rock guitarist’ playing rock music on a broomstick, or someone believing they’ve just met a famous person.
“The power of the mind is unbelievable. You believe what you want to believe and you’ll only believe good things.
“The good thing about hypnosis shows is you’ll never do anything against your will or your morals.”
Another of Upfold’s skits has him get a burly male audience member on stage and ask him to try to pick up what he’s been told is a massively heavy weight.
“He obviously can’t do it, but I then get a young kid out of the audience and say, ‘can you pick it up with one hand?’ and of course they do it.
“The first guy nearly has a heart attack and dies. He thinks, ‘here I am a bodybuilder, rugby player, or sportsman and I can’t lift it, and a 10-year-old lifts it with one hand’.
“It’s that type of thing. It’s not embarrassing and none of the skits are to embarrass people.
“At the end of the show they are the stars as the audience will scream and clap and they’ll be thinking, ‘why are they clapping for me?’.”
- Early-bird tickets cost $20. Standard tickets are $33 ($30 + $3 fees). To book, phone 0800 BUY TIX (289 849) or go online to www.eventfinda.co.nz and search for “Dave Upfold”.
