Critics and audiences are sworn to secrecy – well, requested politely but firmly to do so – by the masterful British magician (or take your pick: mentalist, hypnotist, “psychologi…
There’s no mystery in the attraction. Brown, in his well-tailored suits or, as in the second act, a tailed tux of retro style, is a wonderful showman, funny, confiding, by turns intimate and flashy vaudevillian. Performing on a mostly bare stage bathed in Ben Stanton’s gorgeous lighting design of shifting color, Brown displays little of Teller’s silent poignance, even less of DelGaudio’s gut-punch melancholy. He’s unfailingly jovial with his audience, even when revealing some of its secrets .
Since, presumably, each such revelation is particular to a specific performance, I can say without spoiling anyone’s evening that the night I was there Brown announced to a stunned married couple that one had received a kidney from the other. I take Brown’s word that he employs no audience plants or stooges, and if or when there’s off-stage assistance from ear-whisperers or well-placed cameras the collaborations are accomplished with absolute see-no-strings skill. Certainly other illusionists have performed similar feats .
Ok, so maybe I can hint at some of what you’ll see without giving too much away or breaking any pledges. There’s a marvelous bit involving Brown’s painting of a celebrity portrait, no less impressive if one suspects the anguish over each brushstroke is merely one of those plausible diversions., Brown tells of coming out as gay at age 31 after having carefully, and with no small bit of shame, guarded and suppressed his secret truth since his teenage years.
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