Just for your pure enjoyment……. Mac King
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COMEDY MAGICIAN MAC KING IS READY FOR HIS CLOSE-UP..
BY SUSAN STAPLETON for Las Vegas Magazine..
Do not be fooled by his easygoing nature, Louisville drawl and suit that looks like your grandmother’s plaid couch. Comedy magician Mac King is slick. He’s a pro. You’ll never even see how he tricks you.
King, who’s been performing on the Las Vegas Strip for 15 years, specializes in close-up magic, a skill he learned from his grandfather, who used to point him to his magic books when King asked how he did a trick. His friend Lance Burton, a magician who for a long time had his own show on the Strip, convinced King to make the move to Las Vegas. At the time, King didn’t think his style of magic would work in a big room. “It turns out Lance was right,” he said. “My show is really a close-up magic show. It all depends on me. So the tricks aren’t giant. The key is to make those smaller tricks play to the back of the room.”
Fast-forward to today, and his tricks still resonate on a bigger stage. All the while, he’s sizing up the audience, first looking for a man wearing a watch. “I’m always able to find a guy who is expressive and ready to participate,” he said. His first volunteer is a woman who’s told she’s going to participate in the Houdini Challenge Naked Rope Escape—more specifically, she’s going to get naked and he’s going to tie her up. “She’s the first person up in front of the audience. There’s so much audience participation in the show that how she reacts shows you how willing people are to come up later.” Read more:
http://lasvegasmagazine.com/entertainment/2015/apr/10/mac-king-harrahs/
The man behind the magic: Mac King and his comedy magic show..
By Haley Caldwell for blog.vegas.com
Recently extending his Harrah’s residency four more years, Mac King has officially been dubbed by us, (we are official enough right?) the Las Vegas King of Comical Magic, seeing that he is the longest running magician in Vegas to be working at the same hotel. “I will have been here for 15 years in January,” King explains of his Harrah’s residency.
Combining the whimsical worlds of magic and comedy, King has mastered the art of family friendly entertainment complete with goldfish…and guinea pigs…and bears…er… oh my!
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Murray moves, Mac King extends contract for magic afternoons…
Fans of comedy magic won’t have to worry about either Mac King going anywhere or having an afternoon alternative in Murray SawChuck.
King has signed a four-year contract extension at Harrah’s Las Vegas that will take his long-running show to 19 years at the hotel.
Murray (who is billed by his first name) is moving into the Sin City Theatre at Planet Hollywood Resort, with afternoon shows starting Dec. 20 that will compete almost directly with King’s. Murray’s showtimes will be 2 and 4 p.m., while King’s are 1 and 3 p.m.
Both magicians will be at Caesars Entertainment properties, but the corporation has never been too assertive as a landlord when it comes to refereeing rival shows within a genre. And, much like the arrangement he had at the Tropicana’s Laugh Factory, Murray will be a step removed from Caesars. The Sin City venue is leased from Planet Hollywood and run independently by John Padon and general manager Pete Housley.