“The Return of Wonder”: The Close-Up Magic of Barry Levy

Get your mind boggled and funny bone tickled when Master Magician Barry Levy brings his brand of supernatural sleight-of-hand to Brewster’s Studio Around the Corner at Old Town Hall Theater on Saturdays May 2nd and 16th.  Levy’s eye-popping, uncanny illusions will leave you baffled, bewildered and believing that all is not what it seems. It’s almost as if the wizardly trickster taps into another dimension where earthly physics no longer holds sway.

Along the way, Levy invites his audiences to participate in all the mysterious fun by peppering his performance with sly and wryly amusing jokes – Levy’s levity, so to speak.  And while he’s been known to make rabbits appear and disappear and dollar bills float in the air in defiance of gravity, at a recent Brewster appearance the master mostly stuck to impossible card tricks. Don’t even bother trying to figure out how he makes the cards zip in and out of reality, even if you have a Ph.D. in magic: Levy’s amazing act is beyond comprehension – and that’s the way it should be!

A practicing magician for more than 40 years, the Danbury resident was trained in the enchanting arts by legendary magicians Tony Slydini, Frank Garcia, and Ricky Jay, among others.  He’s apparently also learned a few things about entertaining audiences from TV talk show hosts like former magician Johnny Carson, creator of Carnac the Magnificent.  There’s never a dull moment with Levy – just plenty of wacky, thought-provoking, bewildering ones.

“Working with playing cards, Levy did an effect called ‘Card Thought’ and another called ‘Thought Detector’ – effects so impressive that, as far as we could tell, required sheer magic,” according to The New Yorker magazine.

Tickets are $35 or $25 for Seniors and Students (16 and up).  The audience is limited to 32 people per performance, so get your tickets at Cultural Arts Coalition’s web site (www.CulturalArtsCo.com) while they last.

When: Saturdays, May 2 and May 16, at 7:30 p.m.

May 2 tickets: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/SRL2Y76F82LSQ

May 16 tickets: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/RMBJNR2DWY7H2