The Georgia Wonder Act Resurrected

Lulu Hurst performed for two years as The Georgia Wonder and, in that time, made more than a million 1885 dollars, overshadowing Houdini on the vaudeville stage and retiring as a rich woman. More than a hundred years later, the act is back!

Tiffany Allen has performed The Georgia Wonder Act for more than 10 years and goes over all of her key effects in this manuscript: making the performer impossible to push and unliftable, yet stronger than any participant, as well as getting an audience member to become the Wonder Woman on the spot!

She tells you how to routine them into an act, gives you thoughts on dressing and selecting participants, born from performing for a wide array of audiences, and goes over the history of the act, giving insight into Lulu Hurst, Annie Abbott, and Mattie Lee Price, the performers who gave the act its fame.

Now in its third edition, this manuscript has been fully reformatted, professionally re-illustrated, and now includes performance footage so you can see the effects in action. If you have ever wanted to get into The Georgia Wonder Act, from a performer who has done it herself, then this is it!

“Some highlights for me [...] the rare delight of witnessing a Georgia Magnet presentation par excellence! I have long wished to see such a demonstration (having only ever read the historical descriptions), and the presentation which we were privileged to see did not disappoint. Fabulous!” — Professor BC, East Coast Spirit Sessions IV recap (Jan 2018)

“That someone hasn’t made this a featured night club act to-day is as strange as the stunts.” — Theodore Annemann, The Jinx #93 (1938)

“I saw [...] the late Duke of Cambridge, a minister to St. James’s and our leading doctors and journalists attempting to lift by the elbow this little figure, who was supposed to be unliftable through her magnetic contact with the stage. I have witnessed the supremely ridiculous spectacle of half a dozen men—men honoured among the front rank of law and medicine—piled on the knee of a man sitting on a chair, to enable ‘the Georgia magnet’ to topple them over as so many cards, the amusement of themselves and the scientists.” — Daily Mail (Dec 28 1906)

“Annie Abbott, ‘The Georgia Magnet,’ played a week's engagement at the Avenue Theater, May 9th. Some of her stunts are all right” — The Sphinx, Vol3 No4 (June 1904)

“The manner in which Annie Abbot (the Little Georgia Magnet) was managed, has never been surpassed. It was quite impossible to get a seat at the Alhambra unless you waited half a day outside; and all the papers had been worked up over the show—but whether their references to it were complimentary or not, they all went to advertise it.
Professor Hoffman formed one of the stage committee, and afterwards wrote an exposé of the performance. M. Maskelyne did the same, and afterwards wrote a book on the subject, entitled ‘The Human Magnet Demagnetised.’ Sandow, the ‘strong man,’ came to lift the little lady, but failed; and everyone was talking of her.
Most of the papers took a fiendish delight in contradicting the theories of the show as advanced in other journals; and burlesque performances of the magnetic lady were being given at nearly all the variety houses.” — The Showman (Dec 20 1901)