By Kiko Miyasato
MGM Grand, 7:30 & 10 p.m. June 24-Aug. 4; additional 4:30 p.m. show June 26, $69- $99.25. 702.891.7777
I was sitting front row, dead center. David Copperfield was just an arm’s length away from me. He looked out into the audience and asked for everyone to raise their right hand. I raised my left. He looked down at me, caught my mishap, smirked at me and then smiled. Wow, I just had a playful exchange with David Copperfield! And that’s how his show is—he engages the audience, makes you laugh, gets you riled up and makes you smile. But, the biggest reaction he garners from the audience is awe.
To be seated in an intimate showroom with the man whom millions of people watched on the television as he walked through the Great Wall of China or made the Statue of Liberty disappear is somewhat surreal. But the smaller setting does not dwarf his persona. In fact his illusions are still grand, the magic just as incredible, and you get the added bonus of being just feet away from one of the world’s greatest magicians.
His sleight-of-hand tricks confound the mind. How did he get that woman’s wedding ring tied to a baby’s shoe sitting in his back pocket? How is he levitating that piece of tissue paper over that audience member’s hand? Ambitious illusions get equal time, too. He compacts all six-feet of himself into a small box, walks through a steel blade fan and makes a Lincoln convertible appear onstage.
