This week on Magic Tonight

This Sunday we will be joined by one of our favourite performers, Jason Palter. He is the winner of the Canadian Event Industry's Entertainer of the Year Award and has been on our shows many, many (many!) times. Advance tickets for the show are available at www.magictonight.ca. You save $5 per ticket by purchasing online with additional discounts for large groups.

And we've been busy - check out the gallery to see highlights from our latest shows.

Nov 23 Palter

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This Sunday on Magic Tonight

Coming up this week on Magic Tonight, we're delighted to have a truly legendary performer with us, Glenn Ottaway. At some point long back in the mists of time before I was born, Glenn began hosting a show in Toronto called A Little Night Magic, which ran for over ten years. Widely considered one of the greatest comedy Canadian comic writers, he is also a deviously gifted magician. This is a huge treat for us, so if you're free Sunday night, join us for a fantastic evening. Dinner begins at 6:00 PM with the show at 7:00. You can purchase tickets online ($25 or $45 with dinner). This show will be a real treat, one you don't want to miss!

Nov 16 Ottaway

See our performers schedule to see who will be on in the coming weeks. Readers of this blog can use the code secrets for an extra discount of the online advance tickets.

We've moved!

Our weekly show Magic@theCage has moved. Not far... we're exactly one door to the left of where we used to be; from 292 College to 294 College (click here for Google Map Directions if you need them). Since we're no longer technically @theCage, but merely next to The Cage or in the vicinity of The Cage we figured it was less confusing if we just updated everything. 

So now we are Magic Tonight. Same great show, same phenomenal guests. But we now have more seating capacity, a larger stage and an expanded dinner menu. The show still runs every Sunday at 7:00 PM with dinner served a 6:00 for anyone who's hungry.

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Our special guests for the inaugural performance are the lovely Matt DiSero (contributor of "Magic and Monkeys" in Seventeen Secrets Volume 2) and the distinguished Michael Close.

Tickets are available at www.abracadabaret.com/purchase-tickets. Readers here can use the code secrets for an extra special discount.

Sweaty Thursday Afternoon

Last Thursday, it was hot... really hot... and I was ridiculously overdressed. But indoors it was much cooler at the Houses of Providence where I was performing for Magicana's Senior Sorcery program. They shares some photos on their Facebook page: 

After the performance, I was treated to a recitation of some of the most amusing dirty limericks I've ever heard (proof that age brings wit and wisdom.

You can support Magicana and their community outreach programs for children and seniors here. 

Shared Uncertainty (Part 2)

I'm slowly getting a chance to dig through the video from The Uncertainty Project back in June. Here is the next part

For those who are curious, this is a blend of material from The Vernon Chronicles Volume 1 (Stephen Minch, L&L Publishing, 1987), Vortex (Tom Stone, Hermetic Press, 2010) and Tricks (David Ben, Squash Publishing, 2003).

I hope more will follow soon but we have a lot of video (every night, with multiple cameras for some nights) and the files are huge and a pain to work with.

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Summer @ The Cage

Last night, we ended the summer season of Magic@theCage with a fantastic sold out show. Of course, we're not going anywhere. We'll be back every Sunday this fall with a new and exciting show every week. Coming up in September, we have Jason Palter, Chris Mayhew, Paul Pacific and new performers Garnett Schmidt and Gary Benesco. I'll also be doing my (older) one-man show, Lies, Damn Lies & Magic Tricks on Sept 14. Tickets are available on the site.

I went back through the summer shows and picked out some of my favourite photos, including some of the goofier ones I wouldn't want to use for promotional purposes. There are way more to be found if you visit us on Facebook.

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