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NEWS
Tom's back from Seattle's wonderful Moisture Festival http://moisturefestival.com/ and has some sweet time at home this spring followed by a trip to Michigan and then to North Carolina for science center shows.

On July 5 & Tom will be presenting Bubble Magic in Ashland, Oregon's Science Works Museum http://scienceworksmuseum.org for the first time. It works out well because the next weekend is the annual Oregon Country Fair in Veneta , Oregon (outside of Eugene) http://oregoncountryfair.org/. This is an event that continues to carry some of the spirit of its birth year, 1969 with crafts, community, music, sunshine and vaudeville. I go every year since my first one back in the 1970s ... it's like the heartbeat of my performing life.

Late July and all of August will see me touring Oklahoma! A network of five Oklahoma science centers has asked me to perform at each center on consecutive weekends. I'll put the details up here soon. I am really looking forward to sharing Bubble Magic with those good people ... I don't do many tours, mostly one-nighters, or one weekend out to a place and then home or else extended runs in a single theater. But last year I did a tour of Arkansas science centers. It was hugely successful and this time Oklahoma with a rental car, bubble show equipment, hotels and me ... I like it.

Scandinavia in January ... details to come

"Tom Noddy introduced America and the world to Bubble Magic via television in the early 80's.

Before that, he spent a decade inventing and developing this astounding art."

Tom's Bubble Magic has been presented on television shows all over the world...Universities, Physics and mathematics conferences, Variete theaters, Science and Discovery Centers, Nightclubs, Corporate Events and Galas, Other Entertainment and Education Venues

School Science Project
Through my website I often receive letters from students who are working on school projects. CLICK HERE to read more...

Tom Noddy's Bubble Magic is, of course, a hit with kids but when presented to adult audiences ... well, this is what the New York Times said recently: “The Bubble Guy, Tom Noddy, made his jaded adult audience literally gasp with beautiful constructions made entirely of soap bubbles."

New York Times reviewing the Absinthe Show
August 11, 2006
Read the review: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/
theater/reviews/11absi.html?ref=arts

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Before first bringing his performance to television in the early 80s, Tom Noddy spent over a decade developing a new kind of performance piece. Sitting alone with dime store bubble solution, a childlike sense of wonder and an adult sense of humor he brought a new thing into being: Bubble Magic.

After three appearances on America's Tonight Show, Tom was featured on the ‘Best of the Year’ Tonight Show segment. In his 30-plus year career as America’s Bubble Guy, he has appeared numerous times on prime time, daytime and late night television shows as well as nightclubs and universities. Tom’s work has been presented to 900 mathematicians at the International Congress of Mathematics in Berlin, Germany. He's been the featured performer for science centers' Bubble Festivals attracting up to 17,000 people in a single weekend. He is as comfortable performing for pre-schoolers as he is when entertaining audiences in the Varieté theatres of Germany, the Paris Opera, Le Casino nightclub in Monte Carlo, corporate parties, trade shows, or television programs in over 50 countries.Tom has taken his uniquely warm charm and intellectual interest in soap bubbles to audiences around the world. The bubbles are truly exquisite and Tom’s lively humor and engaging sense of fun leave his audiences both delighted and intrigued.




Describing what he does, Tom tells about a few of his figures: "Bubbles inside of bubbles, smoke bubbles, clear bubbles, clear bubbles inside of smoke bubbles, smoke bubbles inside of clear bubbles, inside out bubbles, yin yang bubbles, caterpillar bubbles, love bubbles and a bubble cube. The yin yang bubble is a double bubble; a smoke bubble inside of a clear bubble and a clear bubble inside of a smoke bubble, it's my most difficult trick ... to say."

"Enjoy my website and please make an effort to see the real thing some day. Don't worry, even I can't blow an ugly bubble."

New! Bubble Magic with fog, not smoke!
fog-machine

to know more, click here

 

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