The best magic show in the world is in NYC — but – Latest News
Trip to B’klyn is in the playing cards
Magician Denis Behr. German. In NYC now. Pay consideration. Word is he’s the world’s best in card tips.
His English, good. Black shirt, black pants, good. Imperfect is his small “theater.” It’s behind a secret partition in a smaller than my john Brooklyn store promoting shticks and tips. He’s behind a easy desk. The tiny clustered room has no video, no cameras, no particular results, no intelligent lights, no smooth cushiony seats. Nothing. Just him. Audience of possibly 20, it’s 69 Atlantic run by Hal Schulman, who costs $200. He’s there via Saturday.
Why was I there? My pal, lawyer Stuart Slotnick’s dad Barry Slotnick is the well-known lawyer. Between lawsuits, Stuart loves card tips.
Behr: “I started age 7 after I used to be given a set of magic tips. It fascinated me. I started to study the truths behind them. I then purchased no matter books I might discover on magic. Mail order. We didn’t but have the Internet, I watched others on TV who did these tips.
“I went to a magic shop in Germany. My family supported me. They even helped my first early shows. I fell in love with it. I began to see how a trick was done. I then performed at home. At parties. And for friends. I fell in love with the audience reactions and more and more I got into it. It became more than card tricks.”
Ever eff up?
“Little errors occur — but not typically. I haven’t just lately screwed up but if I drop a card or choose the fallacious one no person notices it. In Europe, they’re more quiet. Here, more outgoing.
“I travel with 20 decks of cards. I’m doing 10 shows in America. We’re a community so I even meet with fellow magicians here. There’s not as much fear for me today as there was long ago. I know all the tricks. I use one deck of cards per show. In the beginning I’d accidentally drop them on the floor.”
So why doesn’t he work in a massive splashy costly on line casino? Like possibly Vegas? Or Reno.
“Because there is no such stage in Reno or Vegas. Magic I can do — but not on a massive stage.
“I need a small avenue. There is no such place as that. I can do magic — just not on a big stage.”
Sick rumors unfold
Are unhappies on the market making bother? Or mischief?
Friday a NYC VIP calls me. Very linked. Doesn’t make errors. Sends a photograph of Cardinal Timothy Dolan in a hospital mattress. Accompanying information says “the Cardinal is in the hospital.”
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I begin checking. Nothing in newspapers. No information — nada — on TV. I instantly call him. Cheery as typical, he solutions his personal telephone. Says he’s tremendous. Absolutely OK. No thought who triggered this rumor. My authentic caller stated the so-called info had been broadcast on one of these busy chat exhibits.
This is to let all know: Don’t imagine all you hear. Voices on the market are concerned in fleecing, harming, making an attempt to harm the relaxation of us. Pay close consideration.
A superb run for ‘God’?
Listen, magic occurs in every single place. We’re speaking two sisters out for revenge. This is “Is God Is” with Janelle Monáe and Vivica A. Fox, who says: “It’s a dream to go from an off-Broadway play to a feature film. African Americans don’t usually make such films. I only know that it was God himself who opened the door for us to walk through.” The play turned film is in theaters now.
Worker: “I’ll say this about my CEO. He loves animals. Minute I walked into his house there was growling, yapping, big hairy paws all over me — and that was his wife.”
Only in New York, children, solely in New York.
