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Ira KuzmaMurray Sawchuck, with co-star and wife Chloe Crawford and sidekick Doug Leferovich, aka Lefty, debuts in Sin City Theater on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014, in Planet Hollywood.
By Robin Leach (contact)
Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014 | 10 p.m.
It might be the closest an audience has ever sat at a magic show. Certainly the closest when it comes to a magician squeezing his gorgeous wife into a box before vanishing her.
Magician Murray Sawchuck is just inches from the front-row audience along the stage of Sin City Theater in Planet Hollywood when he helps his “Fantasy” dancer wife into the magic box. Chloe’s hand is the only thing left hanging outside the apparatus as Murray pushes objects in, making it impossible for her to become a contortionist around them.
Then the coup de grace when he pushes one half of the box completely away from the other half to hang outside the frame. It’s impossible. It can’t be true. Your eyes are playing tricks. However he pulls off the impractical is a miracle in itself, but it really becomes genius being done so close to the audience they could reach out and touch her still-wiggling hand.
“It’s what I wanted to create,” said Murray. “The most intimate magic show. It seems inches from their faces because this new stage is higher than my old one. But it’s really neat for me to see the audience faces as Chloe goes from being imprisoned in half and then vanished.
We’re so close I can hear their intake of breath and disbelief. That’s so neat. I can hear them whispering through their open mouths, ‘How did he do that?” Those reactions are what makes doing magic such a joy.”
Chloe and Murray have been married three years, and they held their new show red carpet opening Sunday so that both sets of their parents, John and Arlene Sawchuck from Canada and Jim and Jane Sutherland from England, could see the debut show in its new Planet Hollywood home.
“It was a nice family thing, a real highlight, to pull off for the holidays,” he told me. “Even after 30 years of doing magic, I’m still trying to impress my parents. All of us being on the red carpet together made it worthwhile. Mom and Dad are very critical about what I do, but they gave me a thumbs up for this new show.”
Murray has been in Las Vegas for more than a decade and for the last three years was a resident at Laugh Factory in the Tropicana. His new home with a wider and larger stage, curtains, new lighting and new music has brought welcome changes to his 4 p.m. daily attraction.
“I can now have Chloe and my magical assistant Lefty onstage to help with the tricks. They are now in the opening, and we quickly follow with a Houdini handcuff’s effect. I vanish, while handcuffed, an audience watch and an audience wedding ring. They turn up on Chloe’s finger and Lefty’s wrist while I’m still handcuffed,” he explained.
“I aimed to make this a family show — good for everybody from a 5-year-old son to an 85-year-old grandmother. I write some of my own comedy, which explains why it’s corny, but kids of all ages can laugh.”
I asked Murray if he was going into direct competition against day magician Mac King. “We have so many magicians in Las Vegas with shows, we’re all competing and although Mac and I both want the family audience, we’re not in direct competition, and I have the greatest of respect for him. Nothing is different on that score than it was before with the audience at the Tropicana.
“I’m not about to take on Criss Angel or David Copperfield, which is why I wanted far more of a cabaret room than a big theater. Of course my dream show would be where I could vanish a monster truck or the steam train I did on ‘America’s Got Talent.’ I just can’t get the locomotive up the escalators and through the door yet!
Vanishing the 1918 all-steel, 12-feet high, 24-feet long steam train was the largest trick ever performed on “America’s Got Talent.” Here’s the YouTube video of his appearance on Season 5 in September 2010.
He also dazzled with a transposition illusion where his assistant in a clear chamber wearing judge Piers Morgan’s jacket turned into a 450-pound Siberian tiger as she wound up alongside Howie Mandel at the judges desk.
“I’m doing the best show that can be done in the space available,” said Murray, who turns up regularly on “Pawn Stars” as a magic expert and weekly on the new Reelz TV series “Extreme Escape.”
“Having been on 20 reality-TV shows now, I know we have to entertain a reality-TV world generation. So I’ve been able to add in reality-TV show tricks I’m known for on TV into the live show. I really love that I can go right into the audience handcuffed and perform impossible magic.”
Our thanks to Ira Kuzma for his opening-day photos of Murray, Chloe and the janitor who also performs two sets of solo tricks. Our thanks also to Richard Corey for his YouTube video of the new Planet Hollywood show.
Murray has a one-year contract at Sin City Theater with renewal options. His show is at 4 p.m. every day except Fridays.
Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.
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