{"id":9557,"date":"2016-11-07T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9557"},"modified":"2016-11-07T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T18:43:07","slug":"the-next-great-magician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9557","title":{"rendered":"The Next Great Magician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I chanced upon this last night and quite enjoyed it, and despite not expecting anyone to have watched it it didn&#8217;t actually completely collapse against <strong>Strictly<\/strong>\u00a0(3.3m) and did fairly decent demos.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Mulhern and Rochelle Humes invite six magic acts to show off their skills. After performing, each act suggests what they&#8217;ll do if they make the final. The acts will decide between them which one will go through to the final where the winner stands to win a special worth \u00a3500,000.<\/p>\n<p>Like <strong>Go For It<\/strong> it&#8217;s quite nice to see a show fit lots of segments throughout the hour &#8211; some of the magicians get lengthy filmed introductions, others tend to get to their performance quickly. Stephen (who is a proper magician let&#8217;s not forget) and Rochelle are only really there in compere form, there&#8217;s not much filler. We don&#8217;t get to hear the acts deliberate their judging which is a pity but there are understandable reasons why &#8211; professionals not wanting to give away their secrets.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed a shame that most of the acts when asked what they&#8217;d do in the final suggested either flying or catching a projectile, hopefully the magicians that make the final will show a bit more variety than that.<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s winner was uploaded to Youtube, I&#8217;ll hide it behind a page cut if you don&#8217;t want to know.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This was not my favourite act of the night, I wanted the close-up magic guy with the coins to win whose name I can&#8217;t remember, but this is still quite good fun: French circus performer\u00a0Xavier Mortimer. The projection stuff is a bit obvious, albeit very skilled to get the shadows right, but there&#8217;s a mindblowing bit towards the end that I&#8217;ve got no clue how it&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y13pTg_kS-M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chanced upon this last night and quite enjoyed it, and despite not expecting anyone to have watched it it didn&#8217;t actually completely collapse against Strictly\u00a0(3.3m) and did fairly decent demos. Stephen Mulhern and Rochelle Humes invite six magic acts to show off their skills. 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