Post-Modern Medicine Show -- Cast and Guest Stars
Steve Mitchell
Steve Mitchell is our artistic director, artist and producer, as well as Pop and Magill's partner in this exciting enterprise.
Steve is a well established graphic artist, based in California.
His work has met with great success in the corporate world, with clients such as IBM, Lockheed Martin, Disney and Memorex and periods of residence in France, Germany and
Hawaii.
His love of magic led him to an ongoing involvement with the Magic Castle, where for almost two decades he has designed brochures, posters, awards, and much more, including many painted portraits of well known magicians that grace the walls of the club.
A founding member of the organization’s Board of Trustees, he is also editor (and designer) of the Castle’s monthly newsletter. In his spare time, he continues to follow his secondary calling as an oenophile.
For a look at some of Steve's incredible artwork, go to our Poster Gallery.
Steve is a well established graphic artist, based in California.
His work has met with great success in the corporate world, with clients such as IBM, Lockheed Martin, Disney and Memorex and periods of residence in France, Germany and
Hawaii.
His love of magic led him to an ongoing involvement with the Magic Castle, where for almost two decades he has designed brochures, posters, awards, and much more, including many painted portraits of well known magicians that grace the walls of the club.
A founding member of the organization’s Board of Trustees, he is also editor (and designer) of the Castle’s monthly newsletter. In his spare time, he continues to follow his secondary calling as an oenophile.
For a look at some of Steve's incredible artwork, go to our Poster Gallery.
Nancy Magill
Nancy Magill
Nancy Magill Haydn, also known as “Lil,” is a native of Los Angeles, California and has been married to Whit “Pop” Haydn since 2000.
Nancy is an avid reader and enjoys walks in the park with her quirky dog and husband.
She worked in the banking industry for more than 25 years before leaving the corporate world behind to work with Pop Haydn and Steve Mitchell to produce both the stage and radio versions of Pop Haydn’s Medicine Show.
Nancy also runs Pop’s General Merchandise, the on-line store that sells a variety of Pop’s miracle products and other creations and memorabilia.
Nancy Magill is the business-end of the company, most of our common sense, and she keeps an eye on the money.
Nancy is an avid reader and enjoys walks in the park with her quirky dog and husband.
She worked in the banking industry for more than 25 years before leaving the corporate world behind to work with Pop Haydn and Steve Mitchell to produce both the stage and radio versions of Pop Haydn’s Medicine Show.
Nancy also runs Pop’s General Merchandise, the on-line store that sells a variety of Pop’s miracle products and other creations and memorabilia.
Nancy Magill is the business-end of the company, most of our common sense, and she keeps an eye on the money.
Professor Dave Bourne
Professor Dave Bourne
Professor David Bourne is our music director, saloon piano player and head of the Medicine Show Band.
Dave has been playing piano professionally since his first job in the Calico Saloon at Knott's Berry Farm in Beuna Park, California in 1958.
He played bass with the "Wagonmasters", the cowboy group who entertained in the Wagon Camp at Knott's from 1955 until 1968.
Prof. Bourne has produced six CDs called "Saloon Piano" featuring authentic melodies of the Old West. For town band aficianados, his CD, "19th Century Favorites and Rarities" features Dave playing piano, cornet, alto horn, tenor horn, sousaphone, and banjo, in a re-creation of an early town band.
Bourne's Saloon Piano Vol I has been released for !RS Music Rolls.
His music can also be heard on HBO's "Deadwood" where he can be seen as the piano player in the Gem Saloon.
You can find out more about Dave Bourne and his music at:
www.SaloonPiano.com
Dave has been playing piano professionally since his first job in the Calico Saloon at Knott's Berry Farm in Beuna Park, California in 1958.
He played bass with the "Wagonmasters", the cowboy group who entertained in the Wagon Camp at Knott's from 1955 until 1968.
Prof. Bourne has produced six CDs called "Saloon Piano" featuring authentic melodies of the Old West. For town band aficianados, his CD, "19th Century Favorites and Rarities" features Dave playing piano, cornet, alto horn, tenor horn, sousaphone, and banjo, in a re-creation of an early town band.
Bourne's Saloon Piano Vol I has been released for !RS Music Rolls.
His music can also be heard on HBO's "Deadwood" where he can be seen as the piano player in the Gem Saloon.
You can find out more about Dave Bourne and his music at:
www.SaloonPiano.com
Judge Nelson
Mark "Judge" Nelson is our announcer. His professional
radio career began in Chicago in 1971, where he hosted and produced several radio programs devoted to big band jazz and nostalgia, including The Yesterday Shop, The Hall Closet, The Big Bands and Those Were the Days on Chicago stations WNIB, WLTD, WNUR, WXFM and WBEZ.
Relocating from the Windy City to Santa
Barbara, California, Mark was the producer-host of Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear on KKIO and for many years served as the unseen TV spokesman for Breath Assure.
Mark has also written numerous teleplays for such animated series as The Bionic 6, The Real Ghostbusters, G. I.Joe and Smurfs, for which he received an Emmy nomination. He served as story editor on Showtime's The Hunger for producers Ridley and Tony Scott and penned four episodes of that series.
For the past six years, Mark has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of Magical Arts at the Magic Castle and for
fifteen years wrote and produced the Academy's Annual Award Show. He is a contributing editor of MAGIC Magazine, the country's most widely circulated independent journal for magicians.
His name was submitted for consideration for appointment to
the judiciary to the County of Greater Umbrage, Tennessee, where he has served as Judge of the Marsupial District, to the surprise of many in the territory who never believed he could pass the bar.
He has done so. Once.
radio career began in Chicago in 1971, where he hosted and produced several radio programs devoted to big band jazz and nostalgia, including The Yesterday Shop, The Hall Closet, The Big Bands and Those Were the Days on Chicago stations WNIB, WLTD, WNUR, WXFM and WBEZ.
Relocating from the Windy City to Santa
Barbara, California, Mark was the producer-host of Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear on KKIO and for many years served as the unseen TV spokesman for Breath Assure.
Mark has also written numerous teleplays for such animated series as The Bionic 6, The Real Ghostbusters, G. I.Joe and Smurfs, for which he received an Emmy nomination. He served as story editor on Showtime's The Hunger for producers Ridley and Tony Scott and penned four episodes of that series.
For the past six years, Mark has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of Magical Arts at the Magic Castle and for
fifteen years wrote and produced the Academy's Annual Award Show. He is a contributing editor of MAGIC Magazine, the country's most widely circulated independent journal for magicians.
His name was submitted for consideration for appointment to
the judiciary to the County of Greater Umbrage, Tennessee, where he has served as Judge of the Marsupial District, to the surprise of many in the territory who never believed he could pass the bar.
He has done so. Once.
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Pop Haydn is a professional magician in Los Angeles, California
