WHERE THERE’S SMOKE, THERE’S NO SHOW!

The new Melbourne Fringe Festival Show PRIVATE EYE was nearly cancelled before it began!

Creator of the show, magician Sue-Anne Webster was stunned to discover just how inflexible red-tape was when she was told that fellow performer Enzo Ficco (aka Magical Gangster ‘Al Cappuccino’) would make the cigarettes he uses in his act “disappear”.

Enzo does makes cigarettes disappear in the show, and appear, and multiply, and disappear again… but the problem was that these cigarettes are lit.

Enzo, a non-smoker himself, was sympathetic to the intention of the law, but had no other option but to drop out of the show as the cigarette sequences were crucial to both the character he portrays and the structure of the act.

Sue-Anne Webster was adamant, “No Enzo, No Show!”

Finally, a late night brainstorming session came up with a magical solution. As magicians like to keep their secrets, we can’t tell you what it is, suffice to say it’s nothing more than an illusion. The cigarettes are back in the show, and it definitely looks like Enzo is smoking them, but in magic – as in life – not everything is as it seems…

PRIVATE EYE is a brand new show created by internationally recognised magician Sue-Anne Webster. It stars four of Australia’s top magicians: Sue-Anne Webster, Enzo Ficco, Anthony DeMasi and Lee Cohen.

The show has it’s World Premiere on FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28 – North Melbourne Town Hall (A Smoke Free Venue!)

The season runs until FRIDAY OCTOBER 5 and tickets are available online at www.MelbourneFringe.com.au or by calling (03) 8412 8777