Shin Lim on Penn & Tellers FOOL US. Simply a superb performance. It’s hard to believe Shin has only been involved with magic for 7 years.
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“Phone-y Business” and Exposure in the Information Age: Notes on ‘FOOL US’
From the last season alone, Fool Us is a show that creates high expectations, with great talent given the space to show Penn and Teller, as well as the world, what they can do. Happily, last night’s season premiere did not disappoint. In fact, I could not wish for a better selection of performances to demonstrate the various attributes that make for great magic.
Jon Armstrong: Let’s call his routine “delight.” His little magical plunger was a masterpiece of whimsy, and beautifully deceptive. It may not have fooled Teller, but it certainly fooled me. Most important of all, it felt so marvelous that the fact that it fooled me did not matter – by the time the trick was halfway done, I had stopped caring about the method and just wanted to see more of the little plunger. I feel like my life is a bit richer for having seen it, and that’s something the best magic will do. Read more…
(Thanks to Mel Kientz at MAGICIAN’S LIFE for the link.
Email: m.kientz@bnproducts.com )
Swallowing Needles and Disappearing Elephants? Learn the Making Behind Penn & Teller’s Magic!
By Harry Haun for Playbill..
Penn & Teller, the acclaimed magic-making duo, are back on Broadway for the third time, with a collection of their old favorites and stunning new tricks.
It wouldn’t be prudent to pack a cell phone if you plan to catch Penn & Tellerat the Marriott Marquis July 7-Aug. 16. At every performance, some poor patron is relieved of his-or-hers, but it surfaces later in the show — in an unlikely (and ungodly) place.
Top hats aren’t advisable, either. “Pulling a rabbit out of a hat is the cliché of magic — a figure of speech, really — but, in 60 years of magic, I have never seen that,” admits the mononymous Teller, and he intends to correct that oversight with this show. “I thought maybe there’s a reason I haven’t — and there is: you need a hat big enough to contain a rabbit. You can’t pull that out of a baseball cap or a cowboy hat. You need a top hat, and, for it to be convincing, you have to borrow a top hat. You can’t just drag your own on stage because people just figure there’s a gimmick to it.”
See inside! Penn Jillette buys gorgeous Las Vegas home..
Magical funnyman Penn Jillette — the outspoken half of Penn & Teller — has found a place he wants to live more than in “The Slammer,” his nickname for a home on the outskirts of Las Vegas that he built 20 years ago.
He just paid $3.3 million for a 7,800-square-foot contemporary mansion, also just outside Las Vegas. See all the pictures at:
http://www.today.com/home/penn-tellers-penn-jillette-buys-las-vegas-mansion-t25106
Photo courtesy of Zillow..
