This daytime show caters to a different level of expectations than other magic shows. Burton and his three lovely assistants/dancers perform several variations of the disappearing act. During an audience participation routine, Burton offers a dancer’s hand in marriage to a pre-teen boy. The dancer then comes on stage in a white wedding dress.
This highly professional German magic show is heavy on disappearing acts, sharp objects, and exercise machine-looking props. It is also a dance show, with a different style and attitude than is common in Vegas. When the dancers—three girls and two guys—perform their ballet-quality routines, they nearly upstage the magic. The opening number features marching soldiers in boots and black uniforms, à la The Producers, done in all seriousness. This show is an edgier alternative to a more debonair Stefan Vanel.
In this one-person show, the quick-witted and fast-talking Hammer maintains control of the audience for the entire seventy-five minutes. His act is closer to party entertainment than to the more formal magic of Stefan Vanel or Illusions and involves a lot of audience participation. Hammer is not afraid to work with kids and uses them in several routines. While the show is full of loaded jokes and innuendo, it is still child-friendly.
Three blue mimes use various props and stage effects to advance this show’s primary themes, which appear to be plumbing, digestion, and toilets.
Magician Stefan Vanel works with precision and sensitive humor. This is a good-natured and well-executed magic show: cards appear out of thin air, and girls are put in cardboard boxes and folded away. The show also features energetic dance vignettes, performed by Vanel’s two beautiful assistants and a funny comedian/animal trainer who does a warm-up and variety acts.
This is a long-running hypnosis show where Cools hypnotizes volunteers into acting dirty on stage while entertaining the rest of the audience with obscene but funny comments. DVDs of each show are available for sale immediately after the performance.