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Wizardz Magic Theater

When I have Mondays off between performing magic shows all over Florida, I always try to do something to relax, like watch movies, or have a beer at the beach, walk in Downtown Disney, see comedy shows or magic shows -- and in Kissimmee the Wizardz Magic Theater is one of the great options for live entertainment on Mondays! The live magic shows are performed in a small, 50-seat theater, making it an intimate, interactive experience for audience members. Up close and personal entertainment doesn’t quite do Wizardz Magic Theater shows justice as a comprehensive description – these shows are more than just interactive, they involve audience participation every step of the way as you help the magicians complete their tricks and participate in their illusions and games. All your magic skepticism and reservations will disappear in a poof of smoke when you see world class magicians work their charm.

Wizardz Magic Theater has been featured in the 2016 Netflix documentary, Magicians: Life in the Impossible, a film that takes you behind the scenes as it follows four world-class magicians on and off stage to explore their personal journeys and craft of illusion, magic and showmanship, and shares their experiences with the art of the impossible. The professional magicians have been featured on America’s Got Talent, Penn and Teller, Wizard Wars, Masters of Illusion and Professional magician performing in Las Vegas.

So what are the shows like?

From fun sleight of hand tricks to captivating sorcery and illusions, you won’t believe your eyes with some of the things you’ll see, hear and feel! Audience members get the chance to participate up close in the tricks, making it an even more unique experience that you can’t find anywhere else in Orlando / Kissimmee or the surrounding area. This is unlike other magic shows where you might be one of 500 audience members, and can’t quite see what’s going on on the stage – the shows have a personal feel, where magicians involve you in each of their acts and you get a good look at what’s going on.

But the best magicians don’t reveal their secrets!

You’ll have to come see the show to find out what other tricks they have up our sleeves. It’s worth it!

Location: The theater: Wizardz Magic Theater, is located close to Orlando Disney Parks in Kissimmee, Florida inside of the Seralago Hotel and Suites 5678 W Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy, Kissimmee, FL 34746 close to a popular shopping center with other dining and entertainment opportunities, is a frequently visited site for both residents and tourists who seek to have an enchanting, one-of-a-kind experience with the talented and professional entertainers. Local hotels and restaurants are within walking distance of the theater, making it a convenient visit for travelers to Kissimmee, Orlando and the surrounding area. Wizardz Magic Theater even has a gift shop for visitors to purchase magic supplies to practice their own tricks at home after the show!

Buy Your Tickets!

Tickets are available ahead of time or at the door for your favorite magicians, so check out the schedule of performances online, or give a call to see if they can accommodate you and your group for a show.
Be prepared to participate in the show!
They are kid-friendly, so bring the entire family for an enchanting evening. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and shows start at 7:00 p.m.

For tickets, visit the website http://www.wizardzmagictheater.com or call to book your seats at the next performance.

The Prestige is a great movie!

It’s one of my favorite movies about magicians.

It shows the realistic world of the competition of magicians that exists behind the scenes of all stagecraft.

The Prestige - a movie about Magicians

It is not my intention in this blog post to review a movie about magicians. Instead, the movie helps open the door to a larger point: what happens sometimes behind the scenes of magic.
Ever since I started practicing the art of magic my mind was crazy to find the best way to invent a magic trick and present a magic act. Not much has changed since that day.

Every human being working toward prestige in their profession needs to pass through steps. They study and practice toward acquiring knowledge of an art or profession. With this knowledge, they work toward not just perfection of the art or profession but a way they can practice it that is different and unique.

Are magicians competing to be the best in magic arts or simply for prestige and their own egos?

The movie: The prestige shows the competition as an obsesion. Competition is good. There’s nothing wrong with competing. Actually competition is one of the ways that magic clubs let the magicians show their skills, inventions and talents on stage. But sometimes in the field of competition the evaluation of our expectations needs to be reevaluated. Having a spirit of competition in the right way can encourage self-esteem and creativity at any level for people in any profession.

The dark side of our ego: But the movie Prestige shows how magicians can enter competition for the sake of prestige, and in the process, they lose the joy of the art. And here is my point today. When we involve our egos in the wrong way looking more for the fame and name recognition, we lose our north. We stop enjoying what we do for the love of it. This is true of people in any profession of any age.

I am no stranger to this magician's competition.

In my 20s, I was focusing all the time to learn and perform magic and the best tricks. Like any other human being, I felt feelings of competition. Sometimes other magicians cut me out of opportunities and the tight circle they created. Like other young magicians, I tried to outdo my peers.

But more recently I’ve noticed a different side to the profession. When I moved to Tampa, I heard about the Tampa Bay Magic Club. I figured I didn’t need it. What do I need with a club?

Magician's competition, just for fun!

But I started to attend the monthly meetings. Most of the magicians were much older than me, in their 60s, 70s and 80s. They are from a generation when magicians toured the circuit, traveling the country in RVs and campers, booking shows in cabaret rooms and state fairs when live entertainment shows were a popular thing. They had colorful stories and interesting names – like Windy and Sunny. Even more colorful were their personalities. They performed magic tricks at the club meetings and made mistakes, but would keep right on going. They encouraged each other. What mattered was the magic, not their egos.

They brought in speakers and organized fundraisers, but more than that, whenever one of the members had a show, they’d get the word out so everyone would go to support them. At more than one of my own shows, I’d see their faces in the audience, whether or not I had been making the monthly club meetings on a regular basis. Recently, the spouses of several members have died. All of the club members spread the news and rallied around their friends, attending the funerals. Sometimes sitting in a group, sometimes spread out in different places in the pews at the funeral service. Always letting their club member and friend know they were there, to bring food, for companionship, to take them to a show.

They taught me something, a new way of being a magician and the concept for competition.

To be humble and to listen in order to learn, instead of being so quick to make myself heard and seen. To be supportive and gracious, because there is enough magic and wonder out there for everyone.

Through their example, I learned that there is much more to the magic world than the prestige we younger magicians tend to seek. The older magicians have taught me the real meaning of brotherhood in the brotherhood of magicians.

The Prestige: a competition of magicians - The Prestige - movie.

Wizardz Magic Theater

Wizardz Magic Theater

So what are the shows like?

But the best magicians don’t reveal their secrets!

Buy Your Tickets!

Wizardz Magic Theater: 5678 W Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy, Kissimmee, FL 34746

The Prestige, movie about magicians