It's not an illusion, it's David Copperfield

By Laura Boyce / The Citizen

Thursday, February 9, 2006 9:52 AM EST

Get ready for a sleepless night.
Magician David Copperfield is no dreaming illusion. He is living, breathing and coming to the Oncenter in Syracuse.

What happens on stage will be left up to the waking crowd to decide how tangible Copperfield's display is in “An Intimate Evening of Grand Illusion,” Sunday in the Crouse-Hinds Theater. Copperfield is touring the country bringing audience members' dreams to life #- both the bad and the good.

“Imagine if you could win the lottery, travel to the perfect place in the blink of an eye, own your dream car, turn back the hands of time or reunite with a lost loved one. It all becomes reality, every night,” according to a press release.

Copperfield's goal for the show, he said in the press release, is to go beyond the current state of cinema in which people go to the theater to watch characters' dreams become reality.

Therefore Copperfield plans to interact with the audience and make the same thing happen “in front of 3,000 or 4,000 people who witness the event and see that it's real.”

Copperfield might decide to act on nightmares and dance with death as he performs “close up” magic with a deadly black African scorpion, or squeeze his body inside a tiny shoe box by means of extreme liposuction.

He will also pull the pleasant and exciting dreams out of the night and on stage when he transports an audience member to a fantasy location to be reunited with a long lost loved one by means of “one of the most startling, affecting illusions ever devised.”

The audience as a whole will be included in fulfilling Copperfield's grandfather's dream to hit the lottery by learning how to predict winning numbers.

The fine line of reality will be erased, and dreams will come true. It's up to the audience to determine which ones.

If you go

What: David Copperfield “An Intimate Evening of Grand Illusion”

When: 5 and

8 p.m. Sunday

Where: Mulroy Civic Center, Syracuse

Tickets:

$29.50-49.50

Box office:

Call 435-2121,

472-0700 or ticketmaster.com

Staff writer Laura Boyce can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 236 or laura.boyce@lee.net

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