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Featuring original photography and rare memorabilia alongside a Foreword by Guillermo Del Toro and text by Steve Cohen himself, Confronting Magic celebrates twenty years of Chamber Magic and the variety of guests that the lively, intimate show has attracted and stunned. Here we see stills and pro...
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Through decades of mystifying and entertaining society’s elite, Steve Cohen has garnered numerous accolades and earned the title “The Millionaires’ Magician.” Since Cohen’s arrival Off-Broadway in 2000, hundreds of thousands of people have attended the sensational Chamber Magic. An evening of conjuring, mind-reading, and sleight of hand performed in an exclusive salon setting, the show carries the torch of the elegant parlor magic tradition that characterized Manhattan during the early twentieth century. Billionaires, movie stars, Nobel Prize-winners, elite athletes, and heads of state have sat alongside ordinary folks, all of them tied together by the shared hope that magic might truly exist.

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Interview: In Confronting Magic, Steve Cohen Looks Back on 20 Years as the "Millionaires' Magician"; By: David Gordon, Theater Mania Online (USA), February 2021

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The Icons Collection

Confronting Magic

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Page count

208 pages

Number of illustrations

Over 100

Language

English

Released on

January 2021

Dimensions

W 19 x L 28 x D 3 cm

Cover materials

Silk Hardcover

ISBN

9781614289777

Weight

0.454 kg

Author

Text by Steve Cohen, Foreword by Guillermo Del Toro

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