Could ‘Wizard Wars’ aid Vegas?..
By MIKE WEATHERFORD for LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
A couple of things you will see on Syfy’s “Wizard Wars” Tuesday that you don’t see in Las Vegas:
A) New illusions created in a competitive setting, not just the same old stuffing of women into cabinets and stabbing them with swords.
B) The larger illusion that young, attractive people actually sit and watch young, attractive people perform magic in cool nightclubs.
“We did kind of build this ideal magic venue,” Rick Lax says of the latter, created in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner building that’s seen new life for film and TV production.
In Las Vegas, he agrees, “most magic shows are not set up that way. They’re not that intimate and the audience isn’t that attractive and young.”
But maybe A can help make B come true…