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THE KATS REPORT: THE LINQ PREPARES TO ROLL OUT THE STRIP’S NEWEST MAGIC ACT..
Mat Franco is seated at a card table, aptly enough, set up in front of the stage inside Crown Theater at the Rio. The young magician casually shuffles a freshly opened deck of playing cards while meeting with members of his production team. The group is prepping for a magic show on the Strip starring Franco, the reigning champion ofAmerica’s Got Talent.
Littering the floor are hundreds of cards—seven hundred, about—that have been fired from three cannons at the center of the stage. It’s all part of a show-stopping trick that does not actually stop the show, which is set to open for previews soon at the newly renovated Linq Theater.
The Rio’s Crown Theater, where not long ago guns of a different variety were used as props in a show starring a family of duck hunters, is today but a rehearsal space. It is also, at this moment, a giant conference room.
Franco shuffles his cards, over and over, then slaps the deck on the table. He scrawls a note onto a pad, then turns to one of his confidants, Johnny Thompson, the revered magician known as The Great Tomsoni and a consultant on the show.
“What do you think, some sleight-of-hand here?” Franco asks Thompson. The Great One thinks for a moment and offers: “I think some sleight-of-hand would work, just a little something to add to what you’re talking about.” Read more..
http://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/2015/jul/29/kats-report-linq-strip-new-magic-show-mat-franco/
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For Penn & Teller’s Magical Partnership, The Trick Is Telling The Truth..
If you’re Penn and Teller, you play Broadway. Thirty years after they first played New York, the duo are back with a new show. And it’s no quiet celebration, either. In the course of a single performance, they make a cellphone ring inside a dead fish, swallowboth needles and fire — and make a rare African spotted pygmy elephant disappear.
Over the past four decades, Teller has directed Macbeth, they’ve both individually written best-selling books and the pair’s taken a starring turn in a Katy Perry video. Oh, and they’ve also got a couple of TV shows running right now — Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Wizard Wars — as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
They joined NPR’s Scott Simon for a conversation on magic, danger and the remarkable endurance of their partnership — and they did it one at a time. Read more and listen to the interview..
Meet the New President of ‘Society of American Magicians’
CHAMBERSBURG >> After 18 years of performing magic at libraries, schools, nursing homes and civic organizations in four states, Chambersburg magician David Bowers ascended this year to the post of President of the Society of American Magicians.
The group is a 113-year-old society that includes the country’s most recognized magicians. Among those ranks are David Copperfield, comedic magicians Penn and Teller, and Siegfried and Roy, who are most notable for their work with lions and tigers.
Bowers, a 68-year-old retired salesman who performs under the name of the Magic of David Wayne, said he’s a late-blooming magician who doesn’t fit the typical illusionist’s mold.
“I’m a little different than most in that I didn’t start doing magic until I was 50 years old,” he said. “I had an interest my whole life, but with raising a family and being a Boy Scout leader, there wasn’t enough time.”
His 50th birthday — when his wife forced the issue by hiring a magician to perform at his birthday — changed all that. Read more…
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/local/ci_28562774/local-magician-ascends-national-presidency