This post is continued from the Greg Frewin Las Vegas Magic Review Show - The Show post.
The show lasted about 1 hour and 20 minutes. At the end of the show he plugged the retail counter, as well as the souvenir pictures with a tiger. After every show Greg comes out and answers questions.
Greg was raised in Stoney Creek, Ontario. When he was a kid in the mid-70’s, there were commercials on TV for a magic kit. His parents got it for him, and so began his journey to performing magic. Each year for his birthday or for Christmas his parents would get him another kit. At one point he got hooked up with a man who was working in some clubs, and so at around the age of 16 years of age he started to perform. By now he has been performing professionally for 15 years. As his promotional pamphlets claim, he has been on NBC, ABC, FOX and many other networks both domestically and overseas. He has performed in several locations in Las Vegas, as well as in the Bahamas. He spoke fondly of his time at the Genting Resort in Kuala Lumpur (he enjoyed being able to golf every day).
He now lives on a 10-acre property in Fenwick, Ontario with all of the animals and birds. He has a cougar, several tigers, and a lot of birds. The doves don’t live for more than 6 or 7 years, so he is always training new birds. Parrots however can live to be 70 years old, and so he said once you have one of those trained, you have them trained for life.
I asked him why he came back home, and he said that he had spent his time traveling the world and just felt it was time. He had felt for several years that Niagara Falls needed a high-quality show like this, and obviously he was the one to bring it. He thinks that the growth of the Falls has been great. Business is slowly growing, and he said he is here for the long haul (20 years)!
You can learn more about Greg and his accomplishments at his official web site
By far the greatest number of tricks had to do with people or animals disappearing and reappearing. They were all quite impressive, but two of them stood out to me. One of them was a trick where he “escaped” from a box (he was chained up and there were spears hanging over the box). As the spears went into the box, it opened, and he was gone. He was several rows back in the theatre. Another trick was one where he and an assistant ended up switching places (I’m still baffled by that one!).
There is music throughout the show, and were three main dance numbers. The Greg Frewin Theatre Dancers do a modern dance number right near the beginning to Pink’s song Let’s get this party started, and then there was a number where the girls were dressed like Mounties (although with skimpy bottoms on) and another number where they were dressed like Las Vegas show girls. The dance numbers weren’t really something that I was interested in, but I understand there needs to be some time between tricks to get things ready.
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