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The two biggest names in Las Vegas magic had very good weeks at the box office according to Ticket News.com. David Copperfield and Criss Angel ranked second and third respectively on the list for Las Vegas ticket sales while The Amazing Jonathan made the list at nine.
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Amazing Johnathan is the proverbial magic cheese which stands alone this week as his show is the only to crack the top ten according to Ticket News.com.
In order: Criss Angel, David Copperfield, Amazing Johnathan and Lance Burton all made the Ticket News.com Top Ten list this week. Congrats to everyone and it’s a rare sparkle of good news in what has already been a rocky 2010 for Las Vegas magic.
The Amazing Johnathan doesn’t like playing birthday parties. His way of avoiding them is to quote prospective bookings an astronomically inflated price.
This is not a strategy that deters rich Russians.
And lo, AJ heads to Moscow on May 2nd. This all according to Norm Clarke.
“A very rich dude there has seen us on YouTube doing a German Comedy Festival TV special that was taped about 10 years ago and wants us to perform at his birthday party,” the magician wrote in an e-mail.
In Russia… Johnathan Amaze you.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal digs into the past for three of Sin City’s top magicians. Way back. Like, high school way back.
Penn Jillette, Lance Burton and Amazing Johnathan all share their high school memories and not surprisingly you can see the foundations in their adolescent selves for the characters that have made each of them rich and famous. Penn’s laser focus on the ladies, AJ’s mind expansion and even Lance’s line walking between coolest guy in the room and geek of all trades…
Magician Lance Burton was already using misdirection on his peers at Butler High School in Louisville, Ky.
“They didn’t know what to make of us,” the Monte Carlo headliner says of his theater clique. “We were in that gray area where they’d go, ‘Hey, that guy’s cool,’ and the next they’d go, ‘Oh no, that guy’s a geek.’ ”
Voted most talented — in a tie with 1978 classmate Lisa Potts — Burton played the lead male role in two plays (“Star Spangled Girl” and a Western production he can’t recall the name of). But by senior year, he showed a clear preference for avian co-stars. Most Friday and Saturday nights found him prestidigitating at a Louisville nightclub called Peter O’s.
“I wasn’t old enough to be in there,” he says.
Great concept for a really cool article.