ALl I can thnk of is somwhow building one of those fake fire effects, using all sorts of outlandish things, maybe mylar streamers in oranges and reds, you can use it to blow the audience away, or how about large strips of flowing cloth not really even made to look like fire, but in fire colors waved around almost bursting out of the center of the area where the head would be. I can see this one in my mind, but its difficult to explain. if you rolled up some type of lighter materials in "fire colors" attached your head to the middle of it, and dropped it from a line attached to the ceilng, when needed the fabric (with small weights attached to the bottom) could drop down creating almost a fire like star burst effect, surprising, and fire free. (add some sparkles and smoke...your all set!)

No problem! I wish there was some application on here that we could do drawings online, it would be much easier to explain things!

Haha yea, then a magician could be hired, or you could just invent some type of fireless-fire...here's hopin'. Good luck!

oo i like that idea...could definitely give a great 3-D appearence!