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In often-pricey Vegas, magicians Penn & Teller continue a free tradition..

In often-pricey Vegas, magicians Penn & Teller continue a free tradition..

(Photo.. Penn Jillette and Magic News publisher, Rick Carruth )

Getting up close and personal with Las Vegas headliners can get pricey, with one big exception: Penn & Teller. Greeting their fans, for free, after their shows is something they’ve been doing for more than four decades.

Stick around in the lobby and you’ll see the famously silent Teller – the diminutive half of the duo – actually speaking. Each evening, he breaks his silence as audience members surge around him in the theater lobby at the Rio resort.

On Saturday night, he was urging people to form an orderly semicircle so that he could pose for dozens of selfies. Penn Jillette – the 6-foot-7-inch, hulking and vocal half – was doing the same nearby.

“I still bristle a little bit at it being called a meet and greet because it’s not organized, it’s not charged for,” Jillette told me. “It’s just if you want to talk to us, talk to us.”  Read more.. 

http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-tr-vegas-penn-teller-free-20160712-snap-story.html