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| - This is an approximately one hour show that mixes magic with some music. It's on the second floor of the Hooters Hotel & Casino. It is NOT in the Night Owl Showroom on the main casino floor.
The venue is small and intimate. Where to sit for best viewing depends on what you do. If you opt for the upgrade to a Hooter's dinner between 6 and 7, you will be seated at one of the three VIP tables that are in the front of the low stage. Then comes four or five rows of regular chairs, and finally there are some high top tables behind those. If you do not get the meal, I recommend you take one of the hightop tables. I was in the second row, aisle, of normal chairs behind the VIP tables and there was one section of the show (the levitation) where I could not see what was happening because of the low level of the stage, the piano put more to the rear of the stage, and the heads in front of me at the VIP seats. Some of the time my seat was OK but many times it was not.
As for the show, the two men are genial, sometimes funny, but not belly laugh funny, and they do some standard magic tricks. I guess since I've lived in Las Vegas for so many years and have seen so many magic shows, there's nothing new except a different twist on an old trick. I did like the Beethoven switch part. The show ended with Metamorphosis, which though not invented by Houdini, was made famous by him when Houdini did the trick with his wife. Once you know the secret of the trick, it's a matter of practice to get as fast as you can. The two men have obviously been practicing a lot because they pulled off Metamorphosis in a quick manner.
There is some interplay between Jarrett and Raja over playing the piano (Raja) versus magic (Jarrett). There were a couple of times I wish I was able to listen to Raja more but it's like a comedy routine where the one keeps interrupting when the other one wants to do their thing.
An A-OK show but not a show I'd see again.
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