Murray keeps Christmas promise

From iTricks:

Being in the hospital over the holidays must be pretty hard, especially for kids and a visit from a magician must make it a little brighter. Remember back in November when iTricks reported that Murray Sawchuck had visited the UMC Trauma Center and promised to return on Christmas? He made good on his promise and was back to perform for young patients yesterday.

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Burnaby: Murray's Magical Holiday Spectacular

From Yelp:

Saturday, December 14

Murray is back performing at the Tropicana till January 2014 after a highly successful tour of Australia! Murray is planning on going back to Oz for a 2014 National Tour. 

 As seen on "America's Got Talent" Murray is performing back in his hometown of Vancouver, Canada - Burnaby, BC to be exact at the Shadbolt Center For The Performing Arts. His first time back performing in over 20 years! ONE SHOW ONLY! so get your tickets before they sell out !

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Murray Sawchuck in the Las Vegas Weekly

From the Las Vegas Weekly:

There is a high volume and range of entertainers and assorted familiar names to skewer Goodman in the spirit of the old Dean Martin Celebrity Roast (and newer Comedy Central roasts). The roastmaster is Murray SawChuck, comic magician at the Tropicana’s Laugh Factory. The lineup of roasters includes Mac King, Clint Holmes, Pia Zadora, Rich Little, Steve Rossi, the Amazing Johnathan, chef Carla Pellegrino, Rick’s Restorations star Rick Dale, KLUC DJ Chet Buchanan and Review-Journal columnist Norm Clarke. Lon Bronson will front the house band, and “surprise guests” are promised.

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Murray Sawchuck on Hallmark and TLC in June

From iTricks:

Murray Sawchuck will be popping up on your television a few times in the next few weeks. As you see above, he will be cooking and doing magic for Marie Osmond on her Hallmark Channel talk show June 17th.

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Murray Sawchuk interviewed by Andre’ Haynes

From the Las Vegas Informer:

Murray, Celebrity Magician may be the youngest and most accomplished entertainer to currently headline an afternoon show on the South Las Vegas strip, and that’s no magic trick. Ingenuity, vision, determination and years of hard work have taken him from his birth place in Burnaby of British Columbia – Canada to perform in concert worldwide and now to audiences at sold-out shows in the entertainment capital of the world,  Las Vegas.

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Murray Sawchuck and Dakota on Home and Family

Watch Murray Sawchuck and Dakota perform in Home and Family on the Hallmark Channel.


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Murray Sawchuck on Top Gear

From iTricks:

Murray Sawchuck consistently proves adept at at appearing on television. That dude should write a book about networking and casting in the reality television age. Aside from his reoccurring role on Pawn Stars, Murray will turn the key on a cameo for the American version of Top Gear this coming Tuesday on History Channel.

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Murray Sawchuck: Hallmark Channel

From iTricks:

Murray Sawchuck will appear on the Hallmark Channel’s morning show Home and Family January 2nd.

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Murray SawChuck returns to Pawn Stars

According to iTricks, Murray SawChuck will appear in today's episode of Pawn Stars, called The Offer.

From the History.com website:

Then, when a guy brings in a historic magician s "sawing in half" box the guys learn that cutting Chumlee in half is the easy part... putting him back together is a bit tougher.

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Murray SawChuck's Vegas run extended

From Vegas News:

Comedy magician Murray SawChuck has just received the news that he's been asked and has agreed to extend his show MURRAY 'Celebrity Magician' at the Tropicana Hotel & Casino through the end of the year

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Congratulations Murray!


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Murray SawChuck and mentors

Visit iTricks to see a photo of Murray SawChuck backstage at his Laugh Factory show, with Shawn Farquhar and Marvin Roy.

Just married: Murray SawChuck

Murray SawChuck ("Celebrity Magician") married his assistant Chloe Crawford last weekend.

For details and photos, check out:

• Vegas News: Tropicana hotel's headliner Murray "Celebrity Magician" and Chloe Loise Crawford get married
• Las Vegas Weekly:  Exlcuseive photos: Abracadabara! Murray Sawchuck (sic) weeds Chloe Crawford
• The Magic Newswire: SawChuck and Chloe tie the knot
• iTricks: Murray SawChuck marries assistant Chloe

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Murray Sawchuck at the Laugh Factory

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Murray's great idea is to ramp out the comedy club's regular stage to a circular extension surrounded by the audience. Murray doesn't stick to just close-up parlor tricks, but mixes in a couple of Vegas-style cabinet illusions. So squeezing the lovely Chloe Louise into the usual contraptions takes on a new interest from this "in the round" perspective.

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Murray SawChuck's motivator

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

It was William Hung who convinced him.

"I had performed all my life at this point," says the magician billed singularly as Murray. "I'm sitting there watching this guy who can't sing," he recalls of Hung, whose 15 minutes of fame came in 2004, after an atrocious rendition of "She Bangs" on "American Idol."
"He's got 40 million people who know him now, and he's getting $30,000 for a corporate show. Here's a guy who came out of nowhere, with no talent, and he's more famous than I'll ever be at this moment."

And so was the start of Murray's realization that he needed to be a brand as well as a magician. And he needed reality TV to help him.

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Las Vegas: Murray SawChuck

From iTricks:

Murray SawChuck is taking a gig at the Laugh Factory. The comedy club at the Tropicana will be Murray’s home for a limited engagement beginning April 30th.

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2011 BroadwayWorld Las Vegas Awards

Canadian born Murray SawChuck is nominated in the 2011 BroadwayWorld Las Vegas Awards for Best Magician/Illusionist.

Visit LasVegas.BroadwayWorld.com to vote or to see who else is in the running.


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Murray hosts episode of 'Pawn Stars' roadshow

From TulsaWorld.com:

On one episode, someone brought in handcuffs, claiming they belonged to the legendary Houdini, Murray said. Turned out they were the real deal, with the leg shackles and handcuffs worth between $6,000 and $10,000.

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[h/t: Wayne Kawamoto]