Lance Burton Archives - Chamber Magic Steve Cohen’s Chamber Magic® At The Magnificent; Lotte New York Palace hotel Thu, 12 May 2011 04:46:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Magical film premier at NYC Friars Club https://dev.chambermagic.com/blog/magical-film-friars-club/ Thu, 12 May 2011 04:46:34 +0000 http://blog.chambermagic.com/?p=3461 Yes, that's me with master magician Lance Burton at the Friars Club in New York City. We were there tonight for the premier screening of a new magic-themed movie: Make Believe.

The Friars Club is a grand old club for entertainers and people in the entertainment industry. Past members include all the show business legends, including Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Elizabeth Taylor, Ed Sullivan and Milton Berle. The street entrance looks like this [...]

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]]> Yes, that’s me with master magician Lance Burton at the Friars Club in New York City. We were there tonight for the premier screening of a new magic-themed movie: Make Believe.

Here’s the trailer:

And the movie poster:

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I got a chance to meet a few of the teenage magicians who star in the film. One performer from Japan, Hiroki Hara chatted with me in Japanese.

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Some other New York magicians I spotted (and chatted with) include: Bill Kalush, Joe Devlin, Peter Samelson, Jeff Moche, Michael Chaut, Dennis Kyriakos, Prakash Puru, and Ben Nemzer.

The Friars Club is a grand old club for entertainers and people in the entertainment industry. Past members include all the show business legends, including Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Elizabeth Taylor, Ed Sullivan and Milton Berle.  The street entrance looks like this:

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And it’s located on East 55th Street, also known as Friars Way.

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One of the members of the Friars Club is sponsoring me to become a member. Sounds like a good match – the Waldorf is only five blocks away, and the members are in show biz. Have you ever been to the Friars Club?

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