A Change of Venue

Poste Moved

I very much regret to report that due to circumstances beyond our control, The Winchester Stage and Bar is no longer available for our performances on Sunday evenings. Fortunately, our Tuesday night venue, The Cage 292, has taken us in. Going forward we will continue to offer our shows ever Sunday night at The Crimson Lounge, located inside The Cage 292 (292 College Street @ Spadina). We will continue to honour all tickets and reservations from Magic at the Winchester at the new location.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

And most importantly, thanks to the management of The Cage for accommodating us on short notice.

This Sunday's (February 16) show is already sold out. Tickets for future shows are available at www.abracadabaret.com/purchase-tickets.

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Greedy Giver

For a limited time, you can buy tickets to our shows, Magic at the Winchester and Magic@theCage, at 50% off along with a charitable donation to Greedy Giver.

Greedy Giver offers a wide variety of special promotions in exchange to small donations to a charity of your choice. There are over thirty charitable organizations to choose from including the Sunnybrook Hospital Foundaiton, Children's Wish and PLAN. With $5 donation we are offering admission to the show along with a dinner buffet for $17.50 per person (taxes included).

  

Magic@theCage is every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM at The Cage 292 (map) in the Crimson Lounge.

Magic at the Winchester is every Sunday night at 7:00 PM at The Winchester Stage & Bar in Cabbagetown (map).

CP24 Breakfast

From my appearance on CP24 Breakfast this morning. 

Additional video jiggery-pokery by Chris Mayhew.

More magic that sucks

Last night I took part in a joint lecture at the Sid Lorraine Hat & Rabbit Club raising money for the Mosquitoes Suck Tour. The lineup included some fantastic local magicians including two Canadian Magicians of the Year. Thank you to Bill Abbott, Jay Sankey, David Peck, Matt DiSero, Bobby Motta and Anthony Lindan who donated their time to support a good cause.

Buy the Mosquitoes Suck Download – 106 minutes, 2.97 GB, $10

We're going Dutch

This Sunday (January 26) I'll be hosting Magic at the Winchester where we have a special guest in all the way from Holland. Fritz Alkemade will be performing selections from his award winning one-man-show, Let's Go Dutch, as part of our regular show.

We will also have the significantly less Dutch Chris Mayhew who is, nonetheless, amazing. Hope to see you there.

The show starts at 7:00, but you're more than welcome to come early (~6:15) for dinner and drinks. Tickets are $20 at the door, $15 online with special discounts for groups of 5 or more.

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A nice thing to share

We always begin our shows with the same announcement.

Please turn off all cellphones or set them to vibrate. Any electronic device that goes off during the show will be confiscated and smashed to bits with iron mallets.

(The iron mallets are a literary allusion - a free pair of tickets to Magic@theCage for the first person to respond in the comments with where it comes from.)

We also add the following:

Non flash photography is permitted. Weird stuff is going to happen and it belongs on YouTube and Facebook.

Recently, someone took our advice to heart, which is a good thing. Every month we take photos sent to us and add them to our own at the gallery page of Abracadabaret.com. And every month we randomly choose some of the posters and give them free tickets to an upcoming show.

Occasionally someone goes that extra light-year and we'll just give them the tickets right away. So, from JP Magic:

Magic at the Winchester is on every Sunday night at 7:00 PM, dinner @ 6:30. Tickets are $20 at the door ($15 online with special discounts for groups of five or more).