It's now become an annual tradition that producer Simon Painter brings one of his big, flashy, Vegas-style shows on an Australian tour for the summer school holidays. He’s given us Circus 1903 and last year’s The Unbelievables, but his most popular franchise by far is The Illusionists, which first appeared here in 2012 and was followed up by The Illusionists 2.0 (2014) and The Illusionists 1903 (2015). In fact, Australia was the birthplace of the show, which has now been seen around the world and had several seasons on Broadway.
Now there’s a fourth show in the series coming our way, the appropriately named The Illusionists: Direct From Broadway. Expect big stunts, magical flying, mindreading and all kinds of illusions.
The line-up for this iteration is: Australian daredevil Sam Powers (The Enigma), Paul Dabek (The Trickster), Chris Cox (The Mentalist), Leonardo Bruno (The Alchemist), Mark Kalin (The Showman), Jinger Leigh (The Conjuress) and Florian Sainvet (The Manipulator).