Toronto: The Comedy Magic Show [Jun 25]

Tickets and more information at Eventbrite. 

 

 From the June 15th Facebook post by Chris Mayhew:

 ... with special guests James Alan (magician) and Ernie Vicente (stand up comic).

 Read more.

 

Guelph, Toronto, & Barrie: Magic Guys at Work & Phenomena [Jun - Jul]

Tickets and more information at EventBrite.com/o/80980743733 

 

From the June 11th Instagram post by Ian Batterbury: 

• Jun 12 - Magic Guys at Work: Whiskey Business, Guelph
• Jun 26 - Phenomena: Distilled and Refined, Guelph
• Jun 28 - Magician Showcase, Toronto
• Jul 5 - Magic Guys at Work, Toronto 
• Jul 10 -Magic Guys at Work: Mulligans and Mind Games, Barrie
• Jul 14 - Phenomena: Lifted Spirits, Toronto
• Jul 25 - Phenomena: Off Course, Barrie

 

 

Previously shared on Facebook June 11. 

 

 

 

 

 

Checking in with James Alan's show Mysteries and Lies at The Toronto Fringe

The Toronto Fringe (June 30 - July 12) is fast approaching!  

James Alan kindly agreed to answer some of our questions ahead of his upcoming show Mysteries and Lies at The Toronto Fringe.

 

 

  

 

What is your first memory of magic?

Memory is tricky at that age. I can reconstruct after the fact that I definitely saw Penn & Teller do “Blast-Off” on the Muppet Show. 

 

 

How long have you been performing professionally?

My first paid performance was in 2007. I think I started identifying as a professional around 2012. 

 

 

Why is now the right time for you to be at the Fringe?

At any given time, I have three or four shows I could do. I interact with the audience a lot. So what I do really has to be grounded in the space I’m in. Magic & Martini (2016-2020) always took place in a cocktail lounge. My virtual show, Bring Magic Home, never tried to hide the fact these weird Zoom get-togethers were utterly mad. 

The Toronto Fringe is enormous. This year it has one hundred twenty-three shows. And those slots are assigned by lottery. Some years I get busy and don’t get around to applying. But really it was a random number generator that decided this was the time. And so I didn’t know what the show would be until I found out where it was going to be. But once we knew, the whole show basically came together in one afternoon of shuffling index cards around a coffee table. 



 

What is the title of the show?

Mysteries and Lies. I’m chronically obsessed with the paradox of truth in magic — that there is no way to do what we do honestly. My last Fringe foray was called Lies, Damn Lies & Magic Tricks. There’s a naive version of magic which is about fooling people — I know something you don’t know, Nyah! But there’s a more interesting more grown up version which is about getting people to think about what shouldn’t and shouldn’t be possible. But fooling someone is tightly bound up in that project so it’s a very fine line to walk.

I want people to have an amazing — maybe even a profound — experience. But I don’t want to fall into the trap that so many in the industry do of thinking that you need people to think it’s “for real” in order to be respectable. There shouldn't be a contradiction between being totally amazing and being “just a magic trick”. 
 

 

 

 

How, if at all, does this show differ from your previous shows?

Because the theatre is a very intimate space, 46 seats, with raked seating, we decided this was going to be a close-up show — like what you might see at the close-up room of the Magic Castle. The format is one I hadn’t really worked in before 2020. I never really sat down, even to do close-up magic. I got used to it doing virtual shows, where I opted to sit behind a desk. And during re-opening after the pandemic, there was an awkward period in Canada where you weren’t allowed to have more than ten people in a gathering. So my private shows moved from the end of the room to around the coffee table or the dining room table. (Again, so that the magic can be grounded in the environment. The show happens in your living room. I don’t try to make you pretend your living room is a bar or a theatre or a comedy club.) 

But it also means this show is really brand new. If you saw Magic & Martini, before the pandemic, this will be completely different.

The show is thematically richer — maybe just because I’m older. Recently truth has been top of mind. We’re bombarded by fake headlines, fake experts, AI slop and the threat a Large Language Model is coming for your job. So as someone who is trying to walk this tightrope of honest lying, my job is to channel all that angst into a real experience, but without making things explicit so you feel like you’re watching a TED talk about what to do if you think your toaster might be conscious.


 

 

When did you start writing and preparing for this show?

I found out where the show was going to be in mid January and that’s when I seriously started preparing. The origin of the show we wound up doing is actually a bit stranger. 

I did get used to the idea of performing at the table during re-opening. But the first one of those shows was actually in January of 2020. I received a last minute inquiry on a Sunday morning for a show that night. It was for four people. They wanted something to lighten the mood after they got back from a funeral. (Friends of mine know that the stranger the request, the more likely I am to say yes.) So in my mind, that show was Mysteries and Lies v1.0. And there is actually one trick from that which survives into this version. 

The other weird thing that seeped into this show is that the theatre is inside of a converted school classroom. It’s one of the old red brick kind built in 1914. So the hallway has that odd proportion designed to funnel hundreds of kids to and from recess. The doors are classroom doors. So we’re playing with the idea that we’re surveying all of the regular school subjects — science, history, math — through the lens of magic. 



 

Will you tease an effect or two for us?

I would rather people be surprised. But if someone is willing to do some work, they can earn a spoiler. When The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, we got so swept up, we forget that immediately after that, there was a magician on, who did two tricks. The show contains one of those. There is also a piece by Tommy Wonder that he was so protective of that he withheld it from publication in The Books of Wonder. (But he later softened and ultimately shared it in 2003.) I’ll be doing a version of that. 

 

 

 

Is there anything else you’d like to share with the readers of Canada’s Magic?

If they have the time, they should take the time to experience the Fringe. There are over a hundred different shows. So part of the fun is making a day of it, and seeing what new and different things you can experience. 



 

Thank you James, for making the time to answer our questions!
 

For more information about the Toronto Fringe, visit FringeToronto.com

 

  Mysteries and Lies  

• Tickets:  
  https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/mysteries-and-lies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Week in the Life of Champions (of Magic) -- part 1 of 3

An abridged version of this article first appeared in last month's issue of VANISH (May 2026 #142, pgs 48 - 53).  Republished with permission. 

Wherein we share some trivia about a cast member, take a good look at the behind the scenes effort involved in putting on the show, and take a bit of a tangent in order to drop Alan Hudson's name.

 

A Week in the Life of Champions (of Magic) -- part 1 of 3 

On a cold and grey December day, I met up with the Champions of Magic crew at the Bluma Appel Theatre in downtown Toronto.

My mission: to shadow the company from load-in to load-out, for their 13 day Toronto stay. 

I was unable to attend two of the days and four of the days were statutory holidays. Allow me to take some liberties with the timeline and present to you what I learned spending A Week in the Life of Champions (of Magic). 

Continue reading this password protected article.

Password clue:

• the Canadian magician who appeared on The Muppet Show
  
  Format:  Firstname_Lastname

 

 

Post-script 

In 2026 the Champions team will present their biggest engagement to date, a summer residency at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago. Alex, their producer, said, "Our run in Toronto was something of a test for this longer engagement. Taking away concerns of trucking and travel allows us to add even more magic and production, to deliver the greatest version of the show possible. The Studebaker is an ideal environment to present what we’ve been honing over the last 13 years, as well as some brand new illusions that we’ve been developing which can’t be done on a touring schedule."

Be sure to check out their show if you’re in the Chicago area this summer! 

 

For tickets and more information, visit ChampionsOfMagicTour.com 

 

Read Part 2 in this month's issue of VANISH Magic Magazine (June 2026 #143, pgs 48 - 53)

 

From the May 30th Instagram post by Champions of Magic: 

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Champions of Magic (@championsofmagic)

 

 

 

 

Toronto: Javi Benitez workshop [Jun 3]

From the May 31st Facebook post by James Alan at the Sid Lorraine Hat & Rabbit Club Facebook group: 

We're extending members a last minute invitation to a special workshop with Javi Benitez. (Javi has been on Fool Us twice and did a virtual lecture for the club during the pandemic.)

It's Wednesday, June 3 at 7pm, near Yonge and Eglinton.  

$100 per person.

Read more. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toronto and Montreal: Gianarlo Scalia shows, lectures, and workshops [TO: May 18 - 20; Mtl: May 27 - 30]

Toronto (hosted by the Sid Lorraine Hat & Rabbit Club, IBM Ring 17):

• workshop May 18 - details and tickets 
• show:  Chaos  - May 19  - details and tickets  
• lecture May 20 - details and tickets  

 

Montreal (hosted by the Montreal Magic Jam):

• show:  Strange Things Happen  - May 27 - details and tickets
• lecture May 28  [details TBA]
• workshop May 29 /30  [tentative, details TBA] 

 

 For tickets and more information visit MontrealMagicJam.com

 

 

Toronto: Magic Guys at Work [May 17]

For tickets and more information visit the ComedyBar.ca
 

From the April 13th Instagram post by Magic Ian:

The legendary Comedy Bar Danforth. The original Magic Guys at Work. This could get nuts. 

Read more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toronto, Vancouver, & USA: It's Probably Nothing 2026 Live Tour [Jun 11 - Aug 18]

Wes Barker was the special guest for the Feb 5th (Austin) and Feb 20th (Montreal) shows.  Who will the special guests be on this tour?

 

From ItsProbablyNothing.com: 

Featuring Chris Ramsay and special guests. 

• June 11 - Toronto, ON, Danforth Music Hall 
• June 13 - Cleveland, OH, Agora Theatre
• June 14 - Detroit, MI, Royal Oak Theatre
• June 16 - Minneapolis, MN, The Fillmore
• June 17 - Chicago, IL, Park West
• June 19 - New York, NY, The Town Hall
• June 20 - Washington, DC, Lincoln Theatre
• June 21 - Boston, MA, The Wilbur
• August 9 - Tucson, AZ, Rialto Theatre
• August 12 - Los Angeles, CA, The Novo
• August 13 - San Francisco, CA, Palace of Fine Arts 
• August 15 - Portland, OR, Aladdin Theater
• August 16 - Seattle, WA, Neptune Theatre
• August 18 - Vancouver, BC, Vogue Theatre  

Check for updates, read more, and buy tickets. 

 

 

Found at the April 15th Instagram post by Chris Ramsay.  Shared on Instagram April 15. 

 

 

 

 

 

Toronto: 52 Secrets [Apr 30 debut]

Toronto's getting a "Don't Tell Comedy" type of magic show.  Not only do you not know WHERE or WHO you're booking a ticket for, you have to APPLY for consideration for a ticket and the PERFORMER WILL BE MASKED. 

While we don't know who the performer is, we've been told that the initial ticket price, if your application is accepted, is $20 dollars.  The price is set to increase in the Fall.

 

 

From 52-secrets.com:

Hidden somewhere within Toronto, an undisclosed venue will transform - if only for a fleeting moment - into the setting for an experience unlike anything publicly offered. This is not an event you stumble into. It is one you are selected for.

Attendance is by application only. 

...

On the night itself, a masked performer will take the stage, blurring the line between anonymity and intimacy, spectacle and secrecy. 

Each performance is strictly limited to just 52 seats.

Read more and APPLY for tickets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toronto: Steve Beam workshop [Apr 18] and lecture [Apr 20]

From the Sid Lorraine Hat & Rabbit Club website entries for:

Steve Beam Workshop

Saturday, April 18th, 2026 

The Hat and Rabbit Club is thrilled to host the legendary Steve Beam for a special, hands-on workshop you won’t want to miss.

Drawing from over 1,300 effects across his 12 published volumes and 15 years of the Trapdoor. Steve will guide us through some of his favourites from his brilliantly deceptive semi-automatic and sleight of hand card magic. Effects that are as powerful as they are practical. Expect clever thinking, layered methods and routines that truly connect with spectators.

Read more and buy tickets. 

 

Steve Beam Lecture

Monday, April 20, 2026 

From the man who brought you the Trick that Could Not be Printed, the Flaming Heckler Illusion, and the Vanishing Earthworm, you are now about to be subjected to Magic with No Entertainment Value. Also known as Lecture #17 (and the only one he does) it features some of the finest in comedy magic direct from the instigator.

You will find more usable and practical material in this one lecture than you culled from your entire photocopy of Greater Magic. (Photocopies of Greater Magic will also be available at the lecture.) Best of all, remember Steve’s motto regarding his lecture: Less than 3% filler. 

Read more and buy tickets.

 

 

 

Toronto: Chaos with Giancarlo Scalia [May 19]

Hosted by the Sid Lorraine Hat & Rabbit Club, IBM Ring 17. 

 

From The Second City website: 

It is not possible to fight chaos, but there are ways to find harmony within it. A fixed point. A breath. Giancarlo Scalia invites you on a journey where changing perspective transforms reality itself. Through impossible moments, humor, and visual poetry, simple elements will open doors to alternative realities. An invitation to transformation. A moment to escape. A journey within and beyond chaos. 

Read more and buy tickets. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toronto: Zombocalypse! [Apr 29 - May 10]

Tickets at EldritchTheatre.ca/zombocalypse

From the March 26 Press Release by Eldritch Theatre:

Created by Eric Woolfe, this social satire mixes Romero’s Night of the Living Dead with Hughes’ The Breakfast Club to take aim at societal prejudices, xenophobia, and our horrifying tendency to polarize and turn against those different from us when looming disasters demand we pull together to survive. Don't worry, the play mixes live actors with Eldritch Theatre's iconic puppets and masks, and of course, there will be parlour magic.

PLAY SYNOPSIS

The Dead rise from their graves to feast on the flesh of the living in a suburban high school in 1985. A jock, a brain, a rebel, a preppie and a basket-case barricade themselves in their school cafeteria to fend off the gathering hordes of their hungry, undead friends, only to discover that their real enemies are each other. 

It’s totally the Breakfast Club, but like with Zombies.

 

 

 

Toronto: Details for Jared Kopf's lecture, show, and workshop announced [Mar 18 - 20]

A reminder that Jared's in Montreal, hosted by the Montreal Magic Jam:

• Mar 14 - Workshop 
• Mar 16 - An Enchanted Evening with Jared Kopf at the Comedy Nest 
• Mar 17 - Lecture 

Read more and buy tickets.

 

From the Sid Lorraine Hat and Rabbit Club:

• Mar 18 - Lecture
• Mar 19 - show
• Mar 20 - workshop 

Read more and buy tickets. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Montreal and Toronto: Jared Kopf show, lecture, and workshop [Mar 14 - 20]

Updated March 3rd to add:

• Links to the Toronto show (Mar 19) and workshop (Mar 20) 

 

 

From the Montreal Magic Jam:

• Mar 14 - Workshop 
• Mar 16 - An Enchanted Evening with Jared Kopf at the Comedy Nest 
• Mar 17 - Lecture 

Read more and buy tickets.

 

From the Sid Lorraine Hat and Rabbit Club:

• Mar 18 - Lecture
• Mar 19 - show
• Mar 20 - workshop 

Read more. 

 

There is speculation that Toronto will also host a show on Mar 19th or 20th.  Check their website for updates!

 

 

 

 

 

 

NB, PEI, AB, NY, IL, WI, ON, WA: Wes Barker [Feb 27 - May 17]

Bonus content: 

From the February 9th Instagram post by The Magic Guy Show: 

@stuntmagician is our third-time returning guest and one of magic’s most creative stunt performers. 

Watch the February 9th stream "Wes Barker Hangs Out With The Magic Guys LIVE! #255" on The Magic Guys YouTube channel.

 

 

Tickets at https://linktr.ee/stuntmagician (check back often for updates!)

• Feb 27 - Saint John, NB
• Feb 28 - Fredericton, NB
• Mar 1 - Charlottetown, PEI
• Mar 6 & 7 - Calgary, AB
• Mar 14 - Buffalo, NY
• Mar 19 - Chicago, IL
• Mar 20 - Peoria, IL
• Mar 21 - Libertyville, IL
• Mar 22 - Janesville, WI
• Mar 27 - Peterborough, ON
• Apr 4 - Thunder Bay, ON
• Apr 10 & 11 - Toronto, ON
• May 16 - Spokane, WA
• May 17 - Tacoma, WA

 

Found at the February 2nd Instagram post by Wes Barker. 

 

 

 

 

 

Toronto: Magic Guys at Work -- Mayhem, Mischief and Miracles [Jan 20]

Tickets at Second City.

 

From the Second City listing for Magic Guys at Work Presents: Mayhem, Mischief and Miracles: 

The Magic Guys at Work are back with another high-energy night of comedy, magic, and mind-bending surprises — and this time, all bets are off.

Hosted by Magic Ian and Rob Fishbaum, this edition welcomes special guest Chris Mayhew, a professional magician and mischief maker known for his wildly creative approach, fearless improvisation, and beautifully chaotic style of magic. Chris doesn’t just perform tricks — he unleashes them. Expect bold ideas, unexpected turns, and moments where anything can (and probably will) happen. 

Read more and buy tickets.

 

 

Previously shared on Facebook January 7. 

 

 

 

 

 

Toronto: Mind Over Matter w/ Beyond Mental Borders [Jan 18 & Mar 15]

Beyond Mental Borders with Shelby Handley and Armand Antony are back at The Rec Room in 2026! 

For more information visit The Rec Room Toronto. 

Tickets at Eventbrite. 

 

 

 

 

 

Toronto: Simply Darling [Mar 13 & 14]

Updated January 13 to add:

•  According to this January 13th Facebook post by Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres, due to popular demand, two shows have been added on March 13 at 6pm and 9pm.

 

Tickets at TicketMaster.ca.  Please see this January 13th Facebook post from Community Manager Chris.

 

From the January 5th Facebook post by Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres: 

The EWG welcomes Lucy Darling this March to the Winter Garden Theatre, tickets on sale Jan. 9 at 10am. 

 

 

 

Toronto: Stepping Into the Impossible [Jan 26 - 27]

Tickets at Eventbrite. 

 

From the December 29th Facebook post by Jeff Hinchliffe: 

I'm bringing back my one-man show for 2 nights, January 26-27th 2026. 

 

 

 

Previously shared on Facebook December 29. 

 

 

 

 

 

A peek behind the curtain with Frances Morgan from Champions of Magic

We recently reported our random thoughts about "Champions of Magic -- Holiday Spectacular" in Toronto.  Frances Morgan, whose official role in the production is "Magic and Props Assistant," kindly agreed to do an interview with us.

 

Read our random thoughts about 
"Champions of Magic -- Holiday Spectacular"

Tickets at Ticketmaster.ca 

 

 

 

 

 

Based in Spokane, Frances:

• performed as a Magician’s Assistant at Silverwood Theme Park in 2022
  
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  At the theme park we did grand scale illusions as well as a few smaller illusions and routines. My favorite was our opening act that the magician and I created together (about a week before opening day!) I got hired quite unexpectedly, and had to jump in quickly. I was hired at the end of May and the full season started the first week in June. Before that, I had never been involved in a magic show in any capacity. So it was quite the adventure having to learn everything in such a short amount of time. That lasted a season before I moved on to starting my own show and forming my company, Inland Northwest Magic [INWmagic.com].
  
  
• debuted her first show as a magician in 2023, 
  
  
• won First Place in the Spokane Magic Club's Close-Up competition, 
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  For my first local competition, I did some simple card routines, but what I have always stood behind is even the most simple magic can be amazing with the right presentation. I had music playing in the background, chose my setup carefully and rehearsed until the last moment to make sure it was ready. It was my first competition and I had just debuted my first solo show a few weeks prior, so that October was a fun and busy month! Some of the card moves in the routine I performed were taught to me by the magicians I met through the magic club     
      
  
• and competed in the 2024 IBM Stage Competition.
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  At the annual IBM International Championship, I competed in the Stage Magic category. I had just joined the IBM as I had been elected Vice President of my local magic club and needed to join the IBM in order to do so. When I joined, I saw they had a convention coming a few hours away from me in Washington and knew I had to go. Magic conventions rarely, if ever, come to Washington or Idaho so I took hold of the opportunity and it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. When I joined, I saw they also had a competition and figured I had nothing to lose so I sent in a video on the last day available for submissions. I had only been performing as a magician for a short while, so I looked at the show I had, took the routines I got the best reactions from and created a new sequence to make a roughly 8 minute routine. I went to a local park with my friend, we filmed it, went to a restaurant and uploaded it. 
  
  I never actually expected to hear anything back, but about a month later, I saw an email in my inbox from IBM. The headline was simple “I.B.M. Contest”; the opening, polite “Thank you for sending your submission for the 2024 Tacoma I.B.M. Convention Competition.” Reading this, I fully expected it to be a polite ‘thanks but try again later’ kind of email, but to my surprise I read and re-read and for good measure read again the next line. “Congratulations, we are pleased to inform you that you have earned a spot in the finals of the Gold Medal Competition and will appear on the International Stage Championship”. I began to jump and run around the house in complete shock and happiness. That competition was my turning point as a magician. 
  
  Competing at IBM, I truly felt like I was a magician. This was not just friends and family, this was a panel of judges who looked at my performance and said ‘yes,  she can compete at this convention’. It truly is and was an honor to be there.
  
  I did a linking ring routine (which I started to perform at the request of my mom who has always loved the linking rings and which has since become a staple in my shows), a dream bag production, where I make flower boxes appeared; and a torn and transformed paper to kabuki effect.
  
  

 

I learned so much from performing at IBM, including the simple fact of taking a chance, because even if unlikely, you just might get the opportunity you were looking for. This same lesson led me to Champions of Magic! By asking, I was able to connect with the producer, who very kindly took time to answer questions I had about the business side of magic and eventually led to me being asked to come on tour.

 

 

 

What is your first memory of magic?

When I was about 3 I went to a theme park and there, I experienced my first magic show. My favorite routine was when the magician made a table float on stage and to my astonishment, proceeded to walk down the stairs into the audience with the table! Ever since then, the floating table has been one of my favorite illusions to perform. When I went to my first magic convention, I had the honor to meet the builder of the illusion, and have been performing it ever since. 

 

 

What genre of magic has your focus currently?

Everything! Different circumstances allow for different magic. My love of magic stems from my love of connecting people and bringing stories to life. I am working on a Valentine's theme show using both stage and close-up magic. The theme is a love letter to magic and wonder, and will be performed in a movie [theatre] that was first owned by a magician. I have the honor of being the first magician to perform magic there since him in the past 50 years! A show that gets to play with a history like that is such a thrill and an honor. 

I love the theatrics of stage magic and helping the audience get lost in the wonder and story of it. Theatre is my first love, having grown up performing since I was about 3 years old. Close-up magic is a new adventure and for me, the appeal lies in connecting with the audience in an up close manner. Having magic happen in your hands as an audience member is one of the most amazing things you can experience. I also love doing walk-around magic for events. I usually start with just conversing with people. Many people have at least some small connection with magic, and often I can utilize that when I perform magic for them. I get to have fun weaving their stories into the magic to create something personal for them and unique for me. 

 

 

Why did you want to become part of the Champions of Magic behind-the-scenes family?

I saw Champions for the first time in 2022. It was my first time seeing a magic show of that magnitude and I absolutely fell in love with it! My favorite part was the ensemble aspect of it. Magic usually features the solo magician but growing up in theatre, nearly every show I saw had an ensemble of actors working together to build a story. The ensemble aspect of Champions felt more natural and exciting to me. One of my favorite parts of theatre is getting to play off the other actors in a scene, and I got to see that same playful creativity with Champions. 

Magic has this amazing ability to bring the audience into its space. Unlike other forms of theatre, magic breaks the 4th wall and gets to incorporate the audience unlike anything else. Magic has all the wonderful qualities that I love about theatre and then some. It is more spontaneous and can connect with an audience in a unique way; Champions shows that in a wonderful and grand display. 



 

What are your roles on this tour?

I get to do a little bit of everything! My official title is Magic and Props Assistant. I work primarily with the props team and between the three of us we take care of over 200 props in the show, from sunglasses to a sparkly, metal moon. We build, repair, improve, set, strike and pack all the props every new show day. I also get the chance to be onstage as an Assistant for a few of the acts. For one routine, I get to wear the dress I wore as an Assistant in the theme park, so a fun personal call back, and I also wear a necklace of a snowflake that my family gave me for Christmas a few years ago. For me, it is a way to bridge my past experiences with this new chapter. 
 

 

 

 

What surprised you most about touring with this ensemble of magicians?

This is my first tour and I have an immense amount of respect for the stamina of this group! Especially the crew and the producer. Every person works incredibly hard and will jump in to help when needed. If one of us is sick or injured, or simply let something slip in the rush of the moment, we all try to pull together to help one another and give the best experience possible to the audience, while supporting each other as a team. 


 

 

Tell us about a highlight from this tour.

One highlight was at one of the shows, we invited a kid onstage and he had the best time! I got to interact with him and his mom off stage and his whole face lit up at being a part of the show. Getting to inspire people of all ages is just spectacular!


 

What compelling reasons are there to come see "Champions of Magic:  Holiday Spectacular"?

Theatre is magic when seen live, and a live magic show is theatre on another level. This show has something for everyone of all ages. One of my favorite aspects is the different genres that come into play. 

 

Some examples: we have a callback to old Hollywood detective mysteries, a sit-com holiday party, and a tribute to grand scale Las Vegas magic shows. We also get to bring a few people up on stage to witness the magic up close!

 

  Frances' connection to Canadian magic  

There is a podcast called Discourse in Magic that talks about the business side of magic as well as interviews with magicians, and it is run by Jonah Babins from the Toronto Magic Company! I have listened to many episodes of that podcast.

 

 

 

Is there anything else you’d like to share with the readers of Canada’s Magic?

Happiness is magic. Keep sharing the magic. Join the email list of Champions of Magic and come follow along on the adventure! 




 

Thank you Frances, for making the time to answer our questions and congratulations on your recent achievements!
 

 

Learn more about Frances at her website INWmagic.com and sign-up to her email list.

 

 

  Champions of Magic Holiday Spectacular  

• In Toronto until January 4
  
  Tickets:  Ticketmaster.ca 

 

Read our previous interviews with the cast:

• Liberty Larsen  (2024)   
  
• Sam Strange  (2023) 
  
• Fernando Velasco (2023), and
• Richard Young  (2024)      

 
Learn more about Champions of Magic at ChampionsOfMagicTour.com and follow them on Facebook, and Instagram.