Who you get
Richard Stooker
The magician you speak to, the magician you book, and the magician who walks into your venue. Nobody else in the chain.
The short version
Twenty-five years, booked directly
Richard Stooker has spent twenty-five years performing for people who are hard to surprise: Fortune 500 companies, brand launches, private decks in Monaco, and a handful of times royalty. Most of it came by referral.
There is no agency between you and him. The person you email answers, quotes, calls to go through your running order, and walks into your venue on the night.
The work
Close enough that there is nowhere to hide
Almost all of it happens at arm's length. Cards a guest is holding, a ring off someone's own finger, a borrowed banknote somewhere it has no business being. No table to hide behind.
On stage the same principle scales up. Twenty to forty minutes built to sit inside a running order, not to replace it. Nobody gets embarrassed, because the guest at the front is somebody's client.
Mind reading is the third register, and the one that lands hardest on senior audiences. Nothing is handled, nothing is switched, nothing to explain away on the drive home.
Why there is also a Millionaire Magician
Corporate and private ultra-luxury events buy entertainment differently, so Richard runs them as two brands. VIP Magician is the corporate one: a performance fee, expenses at cost, an invoice finance recognises.
Millionaire Magician is the private side, mostly on the Riviera, arranged all-in. Same performer, different contract. For a family celebration rather than a company event, that is the card to hold.
What you are actually booking
Five things that hold true on every date
He performs in English and Dutch
Switching mid-evening for an international table is normal. Most of the material is visual, so it survives a room with six first languages.
Nobody is made the joke
Guests take part because they want to, and come away looking good. At a client event that is the point of the budget.
It fits the running order
Close-up needs no stage, no sound and no slot. A stage set needs a microphone and a light. Neither needs the schedule rebuilt around it.
Discretion is the default
No photographs, no social posts, no name-dropping without your consent. Much of this work happens in rooms where that matters more than the magic.
One performer, start to finish
No roster, no substitutions, no junior in his place. If he is not free, you are told so instead of handed someone else.
Where he works
Based here, booked wherever the event is
Dutch dates run through Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, and December fills first. Beyond that the calendar follows the corporate map: London, Geneva, Davos in January, Dubai through the winter, Monaco.
Long-haul dates are quoted with a travel day on each side, stated on the quote rather than discovered afterwards.
The reel
Twenty-five years, two and a half minutes
Copy about a magician is a poor substitute for watching one work a room. Cut from real events, not filmed for a website.
The reel plays from Vimeo and only loads once you press play.
Check whether he is free
Send the date, the city, and roughly how many guests. You get an honest yes or no, usually the same day, from him rather than an office.
Most enquiries are answered the same day.