Theater: Pure Magic

BLACKSTONE!

Directed and Choreographed by Kevin Carlisle

"Magic," said Harry Blackstone, the great magician, is "nothing but pure psychology — applied in the right place." That is probably as succinct a definition of the illusionist's art as anyone will ever come up with. What Blackstone discovered was not that audiences can be fooled. It was rather that they long to be fooled and are willing accomplices along the way.

Before he died in 1965, Blackstone apparently gave most of his secrets, and much of his orotund manner, to Harry Jr., who brings all of the old tricks, and a few new ones, to Broadway....

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