I Will Now Make A Scorpion Appear

Pippin Had An Opening Number Called "magic To Do," And Jules Fisher, The Brilliant Lighting Designer Lit It. Tony Walton Did All Of The Sets. As A Kid I Thought, "wow, I'm Seeing Onstage What A Mgm Musical Would Look Like Live." It Was That Good, And It Was Directed By Bob Fosse.

Physical Rehab Is Often Very, Very Hard Work.

My Job Is To Make People Dream. Of Course, There's A Lot Of Technical Stuff Behind The Scenes And A Lot Of Hard Work Behind It, But I Get To Watch People See The Result Of That Hard Work And Feel That Wonder And Feel That Discovery, All The Time.

I Think The Negative Reinforcement Really Helped Me In My Very Beginnings.

There Was A Place In New York Called Tannen's Magic. It Still Exists. But Back In The Day, It Was Really Fantastic. You'd Go Into The Old Wurlitzer Building, Take The Elevator To The 13th Floor, Which Was Labeled 14, Because Of Bad Luck, The Elevator Would Open, And You'd Be In Heaven. It Was All Of These Guys Doing Magic Stuff With Props. It's Kind Of Gone Now, That Experience, The Brick-and-mortar Magic Shop, But You Really Felt Like You'd Landed In The Most Amazing Place In The World.