My Dreams Are My Dress Rehearsals For

My Job Is To Make People Dream. Of Course, There's A Lot Of Technical Stuff Behind The Scenes And A Lot Of Hard Work Behind It, But I Get To Watch People See The Result Of That Hard Work And Feel That Wonder And Feel That Discovery, All The Time.

I'm Inventing New Principles. The Audience Has A Point Of View That No One Can Predict.

When I Started Doing Magic As A Kid, My Parents Had No Problem.

If You Ever Saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse Was Kind Of Raised Dancing In Strip Joints And The Whole Era Of Burlesque, And That Form Ran His Visual Aesthetic, The Pacing And Rhythm Of What He Did.

To Make [parents] Happy, I Went To Fordham University For Three Weeks, While At The Same Time Running Ads In Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."