The Guest:
• Danny Garcia
We break down the Penn Jillette v. David Blain upside down semi-fued, why all magic demo videos need to step their game up and why mentalism is the most risky form of magic.
- Trick Shop Magic Find out what is new including great stuff as well as the classics!
The Guest:
• Luke Dancy
Our old pal Luke Dancy stops by to talk about the new season of Mindfreak and his new DVD Sin City.
- Trick Shop Magic Find out what is new including great stuff as well as the classics!
One-time actress Amanda Bynes recently startled the celebrity gossip set by announcing her retirement over Twitter at the age of 24. Now rumors are surfacing that Bynes is shopping a Siegfried and Roy-style animal show in Las Vegas.
Her representation have already denied the reports, but we figured we’d run it up the flagpole her to see if any of our Vegas readers have heard anything about such lunacy.
If it was true and there was a magical element required to said hypothetical show, wouldn’t be that bad of a gig right?
As compiled by TicketNews.com.
Two performers were rushed to the hospital after falling to the stage in the middle of an acrobatic routine during the Zen Magic show at the David Saxe Theater. All reports are that the pair are fine and set to return to work if they haven’t already.
Thanks to Dan Sperry for sending this in.
Las Vegas gossip magnate Mike Weatherford gives us a rundown for several magic shows in Sin City…
First, Criss Angel and the ever-evolving Believe:
Cirque du Soleil finally has confirmed the ongoing overhaul of “Criss Angel: Believe” will be declared finished in October, in time to mark the second anniversary of the Luxor revue that opened to bad reviews and generally negative audience response.
Angel (on vacation until July 17) still performs to paying customers, so changes have been phased in gradually. But new illusions have arrived in the first half of the summer, with more to come. The dancers left the show last month, and gone is the story line that had the illusionist transplanted into a dream world via a near-death experience from an illusion gone amiss.
We didn’t know they’d already dropped the entire dream subplot. It might be time to get some more spy reports. Anyone interested in checking it out?
Meanwhile, Ariann Black is on the mend…
Since we’re not supposed to know what happens inside those magic illusions, we’re not sure why feet get broken. But Lance Burton was sidelined for a long stretch last summer. This year it was Ariann Black visiting the orthopedic surgeon, just before she was to launch her “Secrets” revue at the Westin Casuarina.
The magician broke her foot in rehearsal May 3 and had surgery four days later to set it with a pin. She opened the show May 20, performing in specially made shoes. “It was still really painful,” she says.
And finally, Steve Dacri successfully escaped from the bottom of the Las Vegas Hilton pool and found two selected cards while he was at it.
Happily, Steve Dacri did not break a foot or drown last Friday, when he was chained, padlocked and thrown into the Las Vegas Hilton swimming pool to retrieve two playing cards as part of a promotional card trick at a pool party.
Much more information in the article, make sure you read it.
Great piece by WeeklySeven.com about Jeff McBride’s Wonderground, including the super boss picture above.
