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My Magic - My Way - The Psychic? - The Quantum Eye
Strange and Unusual Hobbies - Monday Night Magic
Criss Angel Believe - Nathan Burton Comedy Magic
The Psychic?
- Reviewed by David Christopher
The Psychic? was an awesome experience! Paul Carpenter had the entire audience on the edges of their seats! They couldn't believe what was happening in this little room! I have never experienced a show like this before! The Psychic? is a MUST SEE!
The venue is a hidden room in the back of the Partners & Crime Bookstore on Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich Village. It's an intimate room that seats about 30 people. I'm convinced that all of the best entertainment in NYC is hidden in smaller venues! Have you noticed the pattern?
This show has a nice flow and a good pace. Paul discusses how he noticed his gift at an early age, how it developed and how others reacted to it. He moves smoothly through demonstrations of clairvoyance, thought-transference, psycho-cognition, psychometry, telekinesis, and psychokinesis. Every element, a mind-blowing impossibility, but for Paul, it's just normal everyday life.
Paul brought me up infront of the audience with Dianna, my wife, and we got to experience his gift first hand.Video He had Dianna stand to his right and I stood to his left. Dianna was to close her eyes and relax. Paul touched my nose, and Dianna felt it, as if he had touched her nose!!! He did it again. She was told to hold out her arm. Paul raised my arm and touched my wrist, she felt it!! The entire time, the audience is watching and Paul never touched her! It gets better! He has Dianna and I switch places. I am told to relax and focus on a spot on the wall across the room. He turned Dianna around and touched her back, I FELT SOMETHING TOUCH MY BACK! The audience was in total shock! I guarantee you there was no set up. I hadn't even met Paul before the show! I definitely made a point of talking to him afterwards!
The Psychic? is an outstanding show, and I recommend you see it. It's only running until May 26th, 2007. Tickets are only $30 per person. I guarantee you, it's money well spent. If I were deciding the price of admission, tickets would be at least $80 per person!
For Information, check out Partners & Crime Book Store, or buy tickets online with SmartTix.com
Simon Lovell's Strange and Unusual Hobbies
- Reviewed by David Christopher
Way down in SoHo, at 8pm on Saturdays, there's a show in the Huron Club at the The SoHo Playhouse. In the basement of the SoHo Playhouse is a bar, a few round tables, a few booths, and a stage that's probably 3x3'.
Emmy Award Winner Ted Greenberg kicks off the evening with some improv comedy that really sets the pace for the evening. It takes a certain kind of wit to take suggestions from an audience and turn them into comedy. Ted warms up the audience for fifteen minutes and then Simon takes the stage. The transition usually includes some friendly banter back and forth between the two. Now it's Simon's turn and, let me say, he takes amazing command of that little platform.
This show is a window into the unique life of Simon Lovell. He shares six or seven "hobbies" with the audience that definitely show off his uniqueness and his lovability. He has a tongue-in-cheek British wit and a list of life experiences that you'll love to hear about.
Simon shares his relationship with his grandfather, his love of magic, his hobbies during his magic sabbatical, and his return to magic. I laughed all the way through the evening. Simon would be best defined, dare I try, as a comedian with a magical gimmick. Simon is an artist, and comedy and magic are his vessels. If all that man did was talk the entire evening, I would have been extremely fulfilled, and the fact that he has these amazing gambling cheats and sleights (and fun little "bits and bobs") makes it an even more enjoyable evening.
I don't want to tell you too much about the show because I strongly urge you to see it. It's the longest running one-man Off-Broadway show on record and there's a good reason why. He's been well received by every big-time New York newspaper and I give him all four stars.
If you would like to learn more about Simon, you can read his interview on my Interviews page, or you can visit SimonLovell.com!
