"The MAGIC BASEMENT" by Jeffrey Day

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Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805 - 1871), is known as, "The Father of Modern Magic". I wonder what he would have thought of magic with Rubik's Cubes? In this exciting new show that I am presenting, you will be taken down the path of how the early conjurors have successfully influenced the modern magicians of today. The similarities may not be obvious, but they are definitely evident. You will learn how the great Max Malini of the early 1900’s was influenced by Issac Fawkes of the early 1700’s with a very similar trick that became a blockbuster to this very day. Not many people know this, but Harry Houdini was not the first escape artist to free himself from handcuffs. But Houdini knew how to market himself and make the genre of escapology a real attraction.  And YES, there will be an attempt at an escape by YOURS TRULY!

 

Come see this show and see the magic happen right literally a few feet in front of you!  This is the very same magic that we see today on television, but with a twist.  As an audience member, YOU will actually get to have the MAGIC take place in your own hands!  You will see how MAGIC has evolved to what is seen on television today from what happened in theaters over a hundred years ago!!

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You will also experience the last illusion of the evening that will be performed by Mollie Fontaine herself!  She died in 1917, but her SPIRIT still makes itself known on occasion.​

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Performance will be in the VICTORIAN BASEMENT !

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WOODRUFF-FONTAINE HOUSE

680 Adams Avenue

Memphis, TN  38105

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www.Woodruff-Fontaine.org

 

<< LIMITED NUMBER OF SEATS >>   (AGE 8+)

SECURE PARKING Behind The Mansion

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