Meet the smoldering magician casting a spell on celebs
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Or, more specifically, to lock eyes canada goose outlet store with Dan White, canada goose outlet toronto factory the smoldering 33 year old magician who studied under David Copperfield, performed alongside David Blaine and is now razzle dazzling fans of his own with tricks involving cards, canada goose outlet black friday iPhones and the occasional, eye popping levitation.
Since “The Magician,” a self described “intimate evening of magic, mystery and deception,” opened at the hotel in March, Manhattan’s hunkiest illusionist is also making tickets disappear.
White has been enjoying a sold out run, with ticket prices ranging from $95 to $115 for a roughly 75 minute show. Originally only running Friday nights, it’s since spilled over into Thursdays, Saturdays and select Sundays the better to accommodate Canada Goose Parka canada goose outlet parka such fans as Neil canada goose outlet Patrick Harris and Jimmy Fallon, who invited White onto his “Tonight Show” April 10.
It was there that White magically produced an authentic looking Powerball ticket revealing numbers randomly called out by Fallon’s audience. Watching at home, Scott Berger canada goose outlet was so bowled over, he bought tickets for the NoMad show before the next commercial.
The 26 year old Upper East Sider shelled out more than $200 for tickets for himself and his girlfriend, Jessica Vanner, 28. “This is way better than going to a nice restaurant,” says Berger, a lifelong magic enthusiast. “We had to go.”
They joined about 70 fellow patrons sipping Golden Pineapples ($18 vodka cocktails served in gold plated goblets) and munching chicken flavored popcorn in the hotel’s Johnston Room, which for White’s run has been decked out with canada buy canada goose jacket goose outlet online uk vintage posters of Houdini and other great illusionists.
When the man of the hour appears at 8:15, he’s not wearing a cape or waving canada goose outlet new york city a magic wand, just a form fitting, several thousand dollar canada goose outlet store uk Isaia suit.
Magic is “a little about deception and a lot about trust,” intones White, a 6 foot 3 Philadelphia native. And then canada goose factory outlet he begins his show, a buy canada goose jacket cheap fusion of old fashioned technique and 21st century technology.
At one point, White calls an audience member with an iPhone to canada goose factory sale the stage. Someone else is canada goose outlet asked for a canada goose coats on sale travel destination and voila! it pops up on the iPhone’s Google Maps.
White is so charming that he’s able to persuade 28 year old Andi Dorfman to put a piece of paper with writing on it in her mouth only to have the paper surface on his own tongue. And though canada goose jacket outlet he was gripped by a Copperfield performance he’d seen at 13, it wasn’t until he was 20 that he changed course.
Suddenly “obsessed with magic,” he moved to New York, where friends introduced him to Copperfield. By age 25, he was working behind goose outlet canada the scenes with his idol.
It canada goose uk shop was a far cry from his early teenage gigs, working kids’ cheap Canada Goose birthday parties and making candy suddenly appear “pretty much the best trick you can possibly do for a bunch of kids,” he jokes.
At the NoMad, https://www.thebookstop.biz he’s impressing a more sophisticated crowd. When he makes his comely female assistant, lying supine on a table, suddenly levitate a foot in the air, there’s a chorus of “WTFs” from the incredulous audience.
