09 Feb '22 00:05>2 edits
Similar to the same novel having different titles in the USA and GB, it seems we sometimes have different magicians, some of whose influence does not cross the Atlantic.
I was interested in magic since about age 8 (circa 1968) but I never heard of David Berglas until my fifties. Such fantastic effects he reportedly presented: making a piano vanish at a crowded social event, and the big one for less posh magicians: asking someone to think of a card from a standard deck of playing cards, to pick a number between 1 and 52, and then to count down to that number from a deck not in his hands, whereat they would find the card they had named.
I'm sure that for the British magic-loving public there might be other Berglas moments that stick in the memory, and I'd love to hear them.
Over here (for the general public) we had Mark Wilson, The Amazing Kreskin, Doug Henning, Siegfried and Roy, David Copperfield, and Criss Angel.
Of course we have heard of Derren Brown and Dynamo over here (oh yeah, and Ollie Mealing!), but that might be more among the magicians and magic hobbyists.
I guess I have been wandering toward a question: on the British side, who else do you think have been the most prominent in recent times on your side of the Atlantic?
I was interested in magic since about age 8 (circa 1968) but I never heard of David Berglas until my fifties. Such fantastic effects he reportedly presented: making a piano vanish at a crowded social event, and the big one for less posh magicians: asking someone to think of a card from a standard deck of playing cards, to pick a number between 1 and 52, and then to count down to that number from a deck not in his hands, whereat they would find the card they had named.
I'm sure that for the British magic-loving public there might be other Berglas moments that stick in the memory, and I'd love to hear them.
Over here (for the general public) we had Mark Wilson, The Amazing Kreskin, Doug Henning, Siegfried and Roy, David Copperfield, and Criss Angel.
Of course we have heard of Derren Brown and Dynamo over here (oh yeah, and Ollie Mealing!), but that might be more among the magicians and magic hobbyists.
I guess I have been wandering toward a question: on the British side, who else do you think have been the most prominent in recent times on your side of the Atlantic?