"2016-01-16T00:00:00"^^ . "5"^^ . "It breaks my heart that my mom spent as much money as she did for tickets to this show for my family. For the price, I was disappointed. If you get tickets for ~$45, then fine, but not more than that.\n\nDavid Copperfield has been an icon in magic and inspiration to me since I was a kid. But after all this time, he just seems tired and over it and it comes through in his performance. He was just going through the motions and talking through the lines; it's the same performance he gives twice every night. I'd get sick of it, too. There's a substantial amount of audience participation, so if you want to be involved, you have a higher likelihood when sitting in the front section. \n\nOh, and just so you know what you're getting into, 40% of his show involves animatronic aliens in the storyline. Seriously. It was.. a strange selection at best.\n\nPOSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD:\n\nIllusions? Sure, there were a bunch. Magic? Hardly. What you'll get: a bunch of \"Look at this empty metal frame! It's very empty! Now I'll cover it and.. boom! A ridiculously large object!\" There were also some tricks involving technology, such as receiving an email on your cellphone, or using a flash drive that \"had information on it.\" If you're remotely technologically savvy, you can see right through those tricks, and it becomes sad and gimmicky that he resorted to them. The demographic for these shows are young children and senior citizens, so I guess it goes right over their heads easily. \n\nThere are also one or two extremely, extremely basic illusions that you can find at your local magic shop for a few bucks. Plus a little bit of slight of hand.\n\nUltimately, was I astounded? No, not quite. Did I see any brand new tricks? No, I wouldn't say so. But was I left puzzled as to how he pulled some of them off? Sure! There was a couple of pretty cool ones. I mean, I couldn't exactly get up and look around, but from my vantage point, and as a relatively smart and aware young person, I was definitely left with a thought of, \"Huh. How'd that get past me?\"\n\n2 stars because I expected so much more, could see through some of his more \"technological\" tricks, the de-railing choice of incorporating aliens, and because David himself just felt and came off tired. \n\nWouldn't recommend unless you got really cheap/free tickets or simply enjoy burning money while killing time being moderately entertained."^^ . . "3"^^ . "2"^^ . "11"^^ . . .