The Magic Show

There are a couple of principles to be considered when learning how to do magic. A sample adventure involves a stage magician on an interstellar cruise ship, who is killed by one of his own illusions. Sam, the main character in Gray Matter is a Stage Magician in training and she really wants to become full fledged by joining the mysterious Daedalus Club. The Rank 4 boss in No More Heroes , Harvey Moisewich Volodarskii, is a professional magician who has a Siegfried/Roy accent and dresses like David Copperfield. The Magic Show is all about a magic show performed by the main character, who can be male or female. Involved a missing robot dog that a junior magician made vanish at the school talent show.

One Family Guy cutaway had Peter performing magic on stage for the blind, in his usual outfit, but with a top hat and black cape. The Chase Scene got a lot more interesting when the suspect was using magic tricks to escape. The Great and Powerful Trixie ‘s profession from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Her Cutie Mark is even a Magic Wand ! Malchior the Magnificent is this for The Smurfs , from whom Jokey wants to learn how to do stage magic.

Granted, genuine magic does exist in this world (and Trixie herself wields it), but few ponies make a magic act out of it. She backs it up with tools such as smoke bombs. Presto Digitagione of the Pixar short Presto is one of these, but with (presumably) much more talent at real magic since he’s created two portals and hid them in his hats. Although much of what he does is classic magic tricks disguised as psychological tricks.

The Amazing Johnathan is a subversion of this whole image, he’s dirty, he’s fat, he’s hairy, and all of his tricks usually end up back firing spectacularly He relies heavily on comedy magic. The Amazing Randi presents us with an interesting case: starting off as a stage magician, he eventually became a noted debunker of claimed Psychic Powers and other forms of charlatanry…frequently by performing the same feats as a stage magician, and explaining how it’s done. David Berglas was a british stage magician, escapologist and hypnotist during the 50’s 60’s 70’s and 80’s who featured in numerous european television shows and was an inspiration to Derren Brown.

Dirk Arthur seems to have taken the animal act torch from Siegfried & Roy, but unlike them is very meticulous in making sure that the animals he works with on stage are properly trained (he’s a very competent animal trainer and advocate for wildlife conservation). Doesn’t show how he does any tricks but he does show that each cat has their own personality. Most famously, he rejected the tuxedo, top hat and clean shaven look cliche and opted to have more of a hippie day-glo look along with an earnest enthusiasm which help revitalized the magic show as a popular entertainment in the 1970s. Lance Burton, a Las Vegas favorite, is another traditional example who specializes in close-up magic (producing doves, cards, etc.).

He’s also done several TV specials in the late ’90s and early ’00s in which he points out that often it’s not so much magic as science (of misdirection) but he’s still quite a competent illusionist, and well respected in the field. Several years ago, there was a magician who seemed to be growing in popularity for a while and was known only as the Masked Magician, or something similar. Here are a few of the many types of magic tricks that magicians use in their performances.

You’re talking about Breaking the Magician’s Code: Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed (Yes, that’s the entire title) that was on Fox from 1997-98. He was seen as a threat by many stage magicians at the time for breaking the long-standing taboo of NEVER revealing how to do a trick. Valentino countered with saying that he wanted to reinvigorate children’s interest in magic by showing that even the most complex of illusions often had simple tricks to pulling them off as well as allowing the audience to marvel at the magician’s showmanship more than trying to wrack their brains figuring out how he did it. It’s now an ongoing series on the Biography Channel, with (presumably) a different magician behind the mask.