There are two ways, I think, that one can present magic: as something that can be done, but only at a price; or as a mysterious force that is poorly understood.
He doesn't present magic as a challenge — as a matter of 'Look, I can make this disappear and you can't.' Rather, he wraps it in a dramatic plot.
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will present "Magic of Christmas," traditional holiday music, today at 3 p.m. in Victoria Theater (tickets: $13 to $53) and "A Gospel Christmas," today at 7 30 p.m. in Prudential Hall (tickets: $10 to $40).
Company founder Jack Ma even presented a magic trick on stage.
On two nights in late August, Opera en Plein Air Open-Air Operaa), a company from Paris, presented "The Magic Flute" to sold-out crowds of 2,400 people.
David Vincent provided music during the social hour, and Jim Bentley of Los Angeles presented a magic show.
> "Psycho Circus of Magic and Mayhem" – Ed Alonzo, the illusionist on Britney Spears' 2009 "Circus" tour, presents magic and comedy in the Charles M. Schulz Theater.
Whereas in ours, we have 20 young people, kids with bamboo poles, tormenting our lovers and making these obstacles into a moving magical forest and I think that audiences really appreciated that kind of present magic.
In both cases, the interplay of past and present, magic and realism, reveals the rich cultural heritage of African-American folklore behind these texts.
STUDIO PLAYHOUSE "Jack and the Magic Beans," presented by the Magic Trunk Children's Theater.
