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	<title>Steve Cohen Chamber Magic &#124; The Millionaires&#039; Magician at the Waldorf-Astoria, NYC &#187; millionaires&#8217; magician</title>
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		<title>How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Here&#8217;s how.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over one hundred twenty years, Carnegie Hall has been a world-famous venue for music, but not magic. It was an honor, then -- a once-in-a-lifetime achievement -- to be able to perform my full evening magic show there on January 12, 2012. The show ran two hours, and received a standing ovation from the sold-out auditorium.

I'd like to thank all of you who came to the show. I'll always remember the electric anticipation you projected as I walked on-stage. Looking out at you, I felt anticipation too -- like we were creating a historic moment together.

Throughout my career I've always believed that magic has the potential to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with other performing arts, such as ballet, opera and orchestral music. Magic can be more, much more, than a simple diversion. The artistry required to construct and stage a theatrical magic show is on par with the training, thought and creativity required to present other traditional art forms.

My personal goal in staging a magic show at Carnegie Hall was to prove that the art of magic is capable of accepting its due respect, if only we give it the chance. It was immensely satisfying to see that the public supported this belief; the entire theater was sold-out months in advance.

Because I am used to performing for small audiences of 50 people at the Waldorf-Astoria, the nearly 300-seat Weill Recital Hall presented some challenges. I did my best to cross the footlights and reach out to the entire audience, even up to the balcony.

In this blog, I've composed a full report of the evening, from my perspective as performer and producer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society of American Magicians&#8217; magazine cover story, November 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Steve Cohen Got To Carnegie Hall
by Antonio M. Cabral
M-U-M magazine, November 2011

Magicians and secrets have a funny relationship. The normal people who comprise our audiences watch us perform miracles and cannot begin to imagine how a person might learn the requisite techniques and other arcane knowledge to accomplish the impossible. Magicians on the other hand know all about the vast oceans of literature (in print and on film) obsessively detailing and documenting the history and lineage of all these bizarre, clever and wonderful ideas. They know you can walk into a magic shop and buy whatever you like without having to fight a dragon or some other kind of mystic wizard’s trial. They worry that their audiences will run home after watching a performance and look for the explanations on YouTube. The “secrets” are out there, if you care enough and know where to look. And yet, magicians and laymen can look at the same “miracle” and both be mystified—if for different reasons.

For example, many close-up magicians know the story of Max Malini's famous production of a brick or a block of ice from under a hat as recounted by Dai Vernon in Stars of Magic. Vernon was tasked with watching Malini over the course of an evening's dinner performance to try to pin down the little man's sleight-of-hand secrets—in particular the the block-of-ice-under-the-hat trick. Throughout the full evening's meal, Malini never left the table. Malini then proceeded to perform the trick and “…when Malini lifted the hat, a block of ice the size of four fists lay in the center of the table […] Vernon swears to this day that 'The little bugger had no time to load up.'” While the regular audience members wondered how the ice got under the hat, Vernon was dumbfounded as to how the ice got to the table at all. A bribe to the waiter proved unsuccessful, and they never found out from where Malini had procured the ice.

On the other hand, whenever Steve Cohen performs the trick as the opener of his exclusive Miracles At Midnight show, the source of the block of ice is somewhat less of a mystery. The show is his second as part of his residence at the über-opulent Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. The kitchen at the Waldorf-Astoria is located on the second floor and takes up the area of a full city block. “They have a huge walk-in freezer, and they've let me have a whole shelf in there just for blocks of ice for this trick. I used to go down myself to fetch the ice, but it gets so cold in that freezer that our arrangement now is that I simply ring down to the kitchen and they run one upstairs for me at the beginning of each show.” Of course. Everything's easy once you know the secret.

But while Steve’s audiences—like Malini’s—are astounded at the appearance of the ice under the hat, magicians marvel at something else. They don’t marvel at how the ice appeared under the hat or how the ice got to the table, but at how Steve Cohen himself has managed to “magically appear” in residence at the Waldorf-Astoria with not one, but two elegant, high-end magic shows—one of which costs $250 per person. For close-up magic! And coming this January, Steve will be premiering a stage show at a local Manhattan venue named Carnegie Hall. Compared to those “miracles”, blocks of ice and bricks under hats might as well be the old stretching thumb trick your uncle does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Flying Earring Trick</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before serving dinner at a dinner party in Manhattan, my host asked that I do "a little something" for the guests. I declined politely -- I don't like to perform when I'm not actually working -- but when people hear that there's a magician at the table, they expect to see a trick. These were not children, mind you, but some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in New York.

I turned to the woman next to me and asked for one of her earrings. She was hesitant to remove one of her diamond studs for a magic trick. She thought I might damage it. But when our host nodded his approval, she allowed me to remove it.

"The Flying Earring Trick!" I announced, holding up my hand to silence the guests. The glittering diamond earring rested in my left palm, shining in the light from the chandelier overhead. I slowly closed my hand into a fist, and explained that I would make the earring fly - invisibly! -  from one fist into the other. All of the guests looked at me with skepticism as I opened my left fist: empty. They craned their necks in closer. I then opened my right fist: also empty. The lady's face turned pale.

"If the earring didn't fly into my other hand, it could only have gone one other place." I pointed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wand Chooses the Wizard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 01:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The magic wand is an ancient conjuring representation of mystery. To the uninitiated, it's no more than a piece of wood. To me, it is a reminder of the joy and pleasure of an entertainment art that has existed since ancient times.

If you've ever dealt a deck of Tarot Cards, you're familiar with "The Magician" card. It shows a magician pointing up to the heavens with his wand, and down to the ground with his finger. He serves as a human conduit between heaven and earth, his wand serving to draw energy from the universe and to harness it for practical use.

I have a collection of magic wands - some of them quite tricky with built in gadgets - but only one  has the distinguished role of my "working" wand. It was custom-made to my specifications by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Millionaires&#8217; Magician circa 1928? Have I been reincarnated?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an uncanny out-of-body experience this week. A gentleman from England sent me his uncle's scrapbooks from the 1930s and 40s, and they were filled with memorabilia of a famous magician who worked for 18 years at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York. The magician's name? Dr. Sydney Ross PhD.

He entertained aristocrats, dazzled celebrities, and stumped politicians - even several US presidents. For all intents and purposes, he was "The Millionaires' Magician" of his day, and even worked in the same hotel as me!

Going through his clippings, photos and promotional material felt like I was reading about myself from the future. What a mind-trip!

According to his nephew, Dr Ross jokingly told people that his PhD was in "phinagling." He must have been very good at it, since he was invited to entertain Franklin D Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. More on that in a moment. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest author: Theory 11 review of Award Dinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Bayme CEO, Theory11.com Magic awards are a dime a dozen. Many of them are handed out by local magic clubs. Some of them are distributed by regional groups. And a select few are handed out by meaningful, multinational organizations. Whenever I hear of a magician getting an award, I ask myself what award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMC 2010 video &#8211; Making a Vision Come True</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Essential Magic Conference will be held on July 15, 16 and 17, in Portugal. I was asked to participate in one of their "passion videos." This video just went live today on YouTube.]]></description>
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		<title>NBC television appearance LX-TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NBC television featured a segment this week titled "Meet the Millionaires' Magician" on their luxury program, LX New York. Have a look.]]></description>
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		<title>Times Square billboard!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PR Newswire ran a press release about my upcoming Magic4Mercy charity event, and as a courtesy, put my publicity photo and website information on the Thomson Reuter&#8217;s billboard in Times Square. It cycled several times each hour for several days. Talk about larger than life! My show is pretty small-scale, and never in a million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magic4Mercy charity event &#8211; Dec 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are cordially invited to attend Magic4Mercy, a benefit performance for the Action Center to End World Hunger (http://actioncenter.org), December 8, 2009
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