- Illusion.
The art of tricking the brain,
distorting the senses, challenging perception.
You can't trust what you see, even with your own eyes.
Meet the Masters of Illusion.
(audience cheering)
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Okay, get ready for an incredible
night of mystical wonder.
I am Dean Cain,
and you're in for a treat with "Masters Of Illusion."
(audience applauding)
You know, magic has been captivating
audiences for centuries,
from the earliest days of ancient civilizations
to modern day Las Vegas shows.
Andi, we're just starting?
Andi Gladwin, ladies and gentlemen.
- Hey, everyone!
- We're starting the show right now.
- Well, let me start the show.
I'm gonna turn around,
I want you to place a die under any one of these cups,
shake the dice up and place it under any cup.
Let me know when I can look back.
- Don't look.
- [Andi] Place the die under any cup.
- [Dean] I'm not doing anything yet.
- [Andi] And mix up the others--
- I haven't done anything.
Yes, you can look back.
- Okay, so I have X-ray vision,
I can see through the cups to work out where the die is.
Okay, I can see it's not under these two.
But now...
(audience applauding)
But there's more, because I don't know
what number you placed the die facing up,
so I'm gonna try and use my X-ray vision
to look through the cup and work it out.
The number is number four.
Did we get it?
Number four, everybody.
(audience applauding)
- That's pretty good.
Would you like to come to Las Vegas with me?
- Let's go.
- I gotta do the rest of the show.
Andi Gladwin!
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(audience applauding)
We all get competitive now and then,
and this sorceress is no exception.
So if you're up for the challenge,
get ready for the one and only Alexandra Duvivier.
(audience applauding)
(dance music)
- Thank you, thank you,
thank you.
During my rocky teenage years,
I practiced something really useless,
but thanks to that,
I've become the world champion of the ten fingers scotch.
(audience laughing)
Do you know why I'm the world champion?
Because I had no competitors.
Easier French style.
But tonight I am willing to put my title at risk,
with you, sir.
A big hand for this gentleman!
(audience clapping)
Hello, dear.
What is your name, my dear?
- Kevin.
- My dear, can you please catch that?
Thank you so much, I will need your help later on.
Kevin, maybe you are going to be a little disappointed,
because this is not the ten fingers scotch.
(audience laughing)
This is the ten finger (blows raspberry) scotch.
I know, I know this is bad,
but here is the goal of the game.
We have one each.
The goal of the game is to put one piece of tape
in the fastest record of time on each finger.
- Okay.
- Ready, how do you say?
Ready, set,
go?
- One, two,
three, go.
- One, two,
three, go!
(comical music)
I have no life.
(audience laughing)
Stop!
(audience applauding)
Huh?
Impressive, isn't it?
Oh Kevin, almost!
Only five, four fingers.
Well, that's fine.
Four, that's very good.
My dear lady, can you please open the little box?
Kevin, you are gonna be so very happy.
This is a brand new roll of tape
to practice at home for you!
Go away, now.
You're so sweet, I'm joking,
I'm joking, you're so nice.
Meanwhile, while you're sitting,
you take the little pieces of scotch tape,
and you put them on one another.
Voila, very well.
You will notice the thumbs are the most
difficult because they are upside down.
See, as you can see?
Once you are here, oh,
that's okay, that's okay.
You make a tiny ball,
and I'm very good at making tiny balls,
then you press, press hard,
press hard, and then then you stretch.
(audience gasping and clapping)
Thank you so much.
That's fine, Kevin.
You have the scotch tape, don't worry,
you practice at home, don't worry.
But I went further than that,
because you are insisting, everybody is insisting!
I can have only one piece of tape
(audience clapping)
- World traveler,
electric, hilarious.
Just a few words to describe this performer,
but that's not even scratching the surface,
so we might as well just bring him on out
and let you all see for yourselves.
Here's Naathan Phan.
(dance music)
- All right!
Over the years I've gotten quite good at bar tending,
and being a magician pays off because I can kind of
know what people want to drink without them even telling me.
I have in this bag a collection of random drinks,
some of them non alcoholic, grape juice,
some of them alcoholic, scotch,
vodka, sherry,
cola, some kind of juice,
wine in there.
Let's go with, who,
let's see, here.
Let's have you, over here.
Hello, hello!
Reach on in there, and go ahead and grab one of those.
Don't show any one else.
Could you stand up for me though,
and could you fold it up and put it in your pocket?
I need someone else.
Who else hasn't helped out yet tonight?
Let's go with, uh,
let's spread it out a little bit.
I apologize if you get one that
has an alcoholic drink on it,
but you're not actually gonna drink it, so don't worry.
Go ahead and fold it up, and put it in your pocket,
great, and someone else!
Let's go with someone over here.
Hello, let's,
I'm gonna talk to you over here!
Hello, I love your glasses.
Excellent, go ahead and reach on in.
All right, great,
and go ahead and fold it up, put it inside your pocket.
Read it, fold it,
slip it and put it inside your pocket.
Good, all right.
Stand up for me if you just selected a drink,
and we are going to see how well we do here, okay?
Start with my teal pocket square and a glass of water.
Let's see here.
We are going to start this out,
and I'm gonna see if I can get,
just gonna see if I can get a drink.
I'm sensing someone's got a non alcoholic drink.
Don't tell me if I get it right or not.
(sniffing)
Oh, I think this is a fruit punch.
All right, I see that someone here got some fruit punch,
and then someone here also got something,
this one is alcoholic, this one's,
oh, it's like a famous ingredient!
It's a blue curacao is what this one is.
(audience gasping)
Yeah.
All right, and now for the very last one.
The very last one, I think this one is,
(sniffing) nice bouquet!
This one is a little bit classier.
This one's just gonna be a nice red wine.
I think there's a red wine there.
If I got your drink, sit down.
(audience applauding)
Boom, there it is,
and I think I deserve some water!
Thank you very much, cheers everyone,
cheers, cheers.
Thank you very much!
- Next, laughs and the unbelievable
talent of Chipper Lowell when we return.
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With his boundless energy, quick wit,
and uncanny ability to pull off
some of the most incredible magical feats,
we have an illusionist you do not want to miss.
Let's give a round of applause for Chipper Lowell.
(audience applauding)
- Thank you.
Big round of applause for our five
volunteers from the audience.
Excellent.
Each of you, and I've got yours,
has not playing cards, but actual alphabet flash cards.
I made them up with a magic marker.
You can see that they are all different, all right?
Hand those to you.
I want you guys to just check them out,
just make sure that they're all different.
You've got all 26 letters there.
Yes, yes,
yes, excellent.
Now here's what I would like you to do.
Go ahead and cut them,
or shuffle them up if you would please,
just to mix them up just a little bit more.
They are already mixed, but you can mix them up
just a little bit more if you'd like,
and once you are done,
I'm gonna have you hold them in one hand,
and then you're gonna slide half
of the cards over the other hand
so that you have the cards out here like this like,
at two and ten o'clock,
unless you have a digital watch, that means nothing.
Okay.
All right, excellent,
all the way down, very nice.
Now go ahead and hand me either one,
whichever one you want to hand me.
This one, all right.
We're gonna put them face down,
and I'm gonna spread them out,
and I want you to go ahead and tap one of the cards.
Just tap one of the cards and do it right there.
We will bring that up to the top.
You can put those in the little
trash receptacle in front of you.
I'm gonna have you hold onto that.
Don't look at it, keep it against yourself,
and these cards can go back into the trash.
Which one do you want to give me, which one?
These ones?
All right, B,
That makes sense.
Okay, we are gonna spread those out like so.
Go ahead and touch one of the cards if you would please.
Right there, we'll bring that one up to the top.
Those can go into the trash can, if you would.
I'm gonna have you hold onto that,
the rest of the cards can go into the trash.
I'll do it for you, there you go.
All right, which one do you want?
Which one?
Oh look, you tried to switch out.
All right.
Once again, excellent,
and I'm gonna have you go ahead
and tap one of the cards if you would please.
Oh, right there!
Okay, wanna make sure,
and those go into the little trash can if you would please.
I'm gonna have you hold onto this against your chest,
okay, yeah,
that's where your chest goes,
and the rest of these cards can go right there.
And with you, which one do you want?
Which one?
This one, okay.
Just want to make sure.
Then I'm gonna do same thing.
Go ahead and tap one of the cards if you would please.
Whichever one.
Oh, all the way near the bottom!
Very nice, and yeah,
you can get rid of those, that's fine.
Hold onto that against yourself.
The rest of these cards, into the box.
And then finally you.
This one.
Oh look at you, all ready.
All right, go ahead and tap
one of the cards if you please.
Right there, we'll bring that one to the top.
Get rid of those, throw those away if you would please.
This one you're gonna hold against you, just like so.
The rest of the cards you can throw into there.
Now, you ever play those word games on social media?
Right?
Every day you're trying to come up with a five letter word?
I thought it would be cool if we tried
to come up with a five letter word right here.
All of you just face out this way,
because I've made a little prediction.
Hopefully we can get close to this word.
Go ahead and put the word up.
All right, moment of truth.
All of you do me a favor.
Take your cards, hold them to the front.
Hold them to the front if you would, please.
All right, right there,
let me just take a look.
And we, oh,
oh, not good.
Okay, uh,
we have the L, but that's in the wrong place.
Okay, that's a P.
Someone doesn't know how to read, but that's okay.
We have a B, and we have a J.
Oh man.
Okay, guys,
take a look, it was supposed to be lunch.
Yeah, it was supposed to be lunch.
See, here's the thing,
I even put this down here, look at this.
Lunch!
(audience applauding)
No, don't applaud that!
Oh my goodness.
No, it's just that everybody ate lunch,
and that's kind of the thing.
I mean, how many people have had lunch before?
Right?
Yes, yes,
it's normal, right?
Pizza, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,
burgers, chicken sandwiches.
Oh, oh my goodness!
Peanut butter and jelly.
Oh, that's weird.
Oh my gosh!
I love peanut butter and jelly!
I-L-P-B-J, yes!
I don't think you understand,
I really love PB&J!
Take a look!
Give it up for our five amazing people.
(exploding)
- [Dean] The impossible is easy for the masterful
manipulations of Shoot Ogawa.
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Are you ready for a masterclass in slight of hand?
It won't be me.
This performer is one of the best in the business.
Get ready to be amazed by Shoot Ogawa.
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- Thank you, thank you very much.
This is Monique, nice to meet you.
It's a pleasure.
So this is a Rubik's cube.
Some people use this as a puzzle,
or sometimes people use it like
a kind of mind game type of thing,
but sometimes people think it's more
likely finger exercise things, right?
It depends how you see things.
Everybody have their own perspective.
And I have a deck of card here.
Some people think it's like a prop for the game,
or some people think like,
for example, fortune telling stuff.
But for me, it's exercise too.
First, only choose one card from here,
and put on table first.
Just take one, okay,
go ahead, there you go.
Okay.
So now I look away,
and remember the card and show to everyone.
I don't want to see it.
Okay, good.
(laughs)
It's funny, huh?
(laughs)
All right, so now put it over here.
So this what I'm gonna do.
First of all, I put card back in the deck of card here,
and I would like to shuffle card.
I'm gonna cut tab like this,
so when I cut tab, people think I'm cutting,
so people sometimes think it's shuffling,
but I can put it back right away if I want to.
So it's gonna be the same order.
But I don't wanna cheat that way.
That's why I shuffle cards like this.
I hope you can see well.
Can you see the cards here?
And I turn over the second half this way,
so you can see face up and face down like this way.
You see that, yes?
Right?
So now, this is a very precise shuffle.
I do shuffle perfectly this way,
so now you can see all cards are really mixed that way.
So now you can see whole face up card and face down card.
Can you see here?
Face down, yes?
You can see that, yes?
And also you see face up card here, yes?
Right?
- [Monique] Yes.
- [Shoot] Yes, now I shuffle card.
Can you trust me?
- Yes.
- I don't, I don't.
Okay, I'm going to shuffle here.
Almost, almost,
almost, okay?
I square the card like this,
so now you can see it's really shuffled.
Almost like it's the same as the Rubik's cube,
like basically when we shuffle the card this way,
people believe it's mixing up.
But what care for, actually I didn't do anything.
I didn't shuffle at all.
Can you see?
All cards facing down now, do you see that?
But it's magic right? I have to find your card.
What was your card, do you remember the card?
- Two of hearts.
- Two of hearts, I turn over two of hearts.
Now you can see one card is facing up
in the middle of the deck of cards.
Two of hearts like this way.
You can see all face up, and this is the chosen card.
(audience cheering)
When it is a card like this way,
people think if it's a cube it looks like this,
so basically it looks like I know
the whole card is fixed like this.
It's like, you know,
exercise, finger exercise, right?
But if I do this, six side is much
harder than finding one card.
So I should be honest, this is no complete.
Actually when I do this, I do this right.
Like this with the cubes.
Actually, now it's complete.
- Okay?
- Okay. (laughs)
- I'm trusting you!
- Okay, if it's a face up card like this,
I mix it like this, right?
So you can see ace, two,
three, four, five, six, seven, nine, jack, queen, king.
So all cards going to be in order this way,
so this is complete.
So now you can keep everything.
You can keep this, you can keep this,
thank you for your help.
I really appreciate it.
(Monique laughing)
Thank you so much!
(exploding)
- We'll be right back with the super quick
hands of Jeffrey Wang when we return.
(dramatic music)
We have a close up magician that will
have you guessing until the very end.
Let's hear it for Jeffrey Wang.
(dance music)
- Hello everybody, hi,
hi, hi.
I'm here with Rebecca, nice to meet you.
Right here I have a coin,
okay, and a marker.
Do me a favor, okay?
Sign your name, sign your initial on the coin.
Beautiful.
I'm going to sign my initial on the back,
so we've just marked this coin,
a very unique coin, okay?
My name and her name.
Right here, right now I don't need a marker.
I need a coin bag right here.
(audience cheering)
Right here is an empty coin bag, okay?
Empty?
- Empty.
- It's all empty.
For those of you still wondering, where is the marker?
It's behind her ear.
Okay, so this coin bag fits only one coin,
and I want you to do me a favor, okay?
Can you stand up and sit on it.
Yep, sit down.
Beautiful.
I have the coin, you can see that?
Into my hand like this, and then right here,
we're going to count to three.
One,
two, three.
(audience gasping)
When snap my finger like this...
(dance music)
Do you know what I just did?
I just paused the time, and I took the coin,
placed it into the coin bag, which you're sitting on.
Can you check?
Yeah, open it.
Squeeze on both sides.
Do you see it?
That's the coin!
Is that your signatures?
That is?
Rebecca!
(audience cheering)
- You simply won't believe what I saw backstage,
so it's better if you witness it for yourselves.
Ladies and gentlemen, Caleb Alexander.
♪ Ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ♪
♪Tonight we feel that the mood is right. ♪
♪You and I, we gonna rock it tight ♪
♪ Shaking it 'till the morning light ♪
♪ Some are rude and some dance polite ♪
♪Shock the crowd as we hit the floor ♪
♪Begging us just to move some more ♪
♪ Party like we never did before. ♪
♪ Freakin' out is the final score ♪
♪ I got you dancing now You look so happy wow ♪
♪ Look everybody in the club they are just freakin' out ♪
♪ You get the vibe so strong ♪
♪ As you dance all night long Lose control ♪
♪ Ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ♪
♪ ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ♪
♪ I got you dancing now You look so happy wow ♪
♪ Look everybody in the club they are just freakin' out ♪
♪ You get the vibe so strong ♪
♪ As you dance all night long. Lose control ♪
♪ I got you dancing now ♪
♪ You look so happy wow Lose control ♪
(audience cheering)
(cannons blasting)
- As the curtain's close on another amazing night of magic,
or light walls, because we don't really have curtains,
either way, thank you so much for being part of magic,
and we hope to see you again soon.
Until then, I'm Dean Cain.
Thank you!
(audience cheering)