I'm a huge magic fan and I was so excited to get some tickets to see David Copperfield live in Las Vegas after watching him on TV
MGM have put him into one of the smaller theatres I've experienced in Las Vegas. It seemed a little odd given some of his famous tricks are large scale illusions.
Well, attending one of his live shows is oddly just like watching him on TV. It all seems very scripted and he was a real showman without injecting much of his personality into that live performance.
Perhaps he has suffered from over-exposure but I didn't really have many 'on the edge of my seat' moments during his show.
There were 2 great tricks though. The first is his famous flying. He really is the smoothest flyer I've seen live or in TV and he even continues this illusion in a sealed box
The second was that he selected 13 members of the audience randomly by throwing a frisbee round the room and getting people who caught to come up - they could all have been stooges but they would have to be very accurate frisbee throwers for that to work. He then made all 13 vanish from the stage. They later came back in and when I asked one of them how the illusion was done, he said they had all been sworn to secrecy.
So a slick but average show