![]() ![]() “I’m one of those kind of old-school, hard-and-fast rule magicians who think secrets still work. The secrets to Beetlejuice, however, cannot be found on the internet, Weber emphasizes. Now that you have access to everything, what are you going to do with it? When you had to earn a secret, you had to think about what you were willing to do to gain access to those secrets.”ĭanielle Marie Gonzalez (Miss Argentina) and Tour Company of Beetlejuice. “The internet gives you access to everything. ![]() ![]() “I think when both parties are very fortunate and open to that vulnerability, because the mentor has to be willing to share, and the mentee, the apprentice, has to be willing to listen,” Weber says. Together, the two formed a business, Deceptive Practice, and Weber by his twenties was making Gary Sinise’s legs disappear in Forrest Gump and creating a ladder of light for the original Broadway production of Angels in America.” That mentorship relationship, shared by Weber and Jay with Miller, is one of the many traditions that the world of magic still maintains. Miller introduced Weber to another of his proteges, Ricky Jay. There, he honed his craft and was taken under the mentorship of the great sleight-of-hand artist, Charlie Miller. Photo by Matthew Murphy, 2022īy the time he was 14, Weber had auditioned and been accepted by the Junior Society of the Magic Castle, the famed and exclusive Los Angeles magicians’ clubhouse. Pictured (L-R) Britney Coleman (Barbara), Will Burton (Adam), Isabella Esler (Lydia) and Justin Collette (Beetlejuice). There were people who performed the same thing over and over again and people who weren’t as smart, like me, who tried something different every time.” We would meet every other Thursday at a high school auditorium, and the rule was, you had to perform at every meeting. “But the great thing about the Long Beach Mystics was it was by young people who were serious about magic by and for us. “Most of the magic clubs were run by adults, so there were lots of politics and people with money or power or control, or who wanted power or control,” he says. As a teen in Southern California, he joined the Long Beach Mystics, a club created by young magicians. The lighting also has illusory components.” There are remarkable projection effects and those create amazing visual illusions. “The show is full of illusions top to bottom. “One of the things I tried to do was that the illusion components would always have some kind of Tim Burton hat tip without mirroring anything that happened in the film,” Weber says. It would fall to Weber to make characters appear and disappear, bringing to the stage the transitions between life and death, real and unreal. For that, Timbers turned to Michael Weber, an illusionist with deep roots in the magic community. Photo by Matthew Murphy, 2022īeetlejuice, however, was going to take more than the usual visual splendor of a Broadway stage. Pictured (L-R) Karmine Alers (Juno), Tour Company of Beetlejuice, Jesse Sharp (Charles) and Isabella Esler (Lydia). ![]()
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