Originally published 12.3.2008
This is one of my favorite clips from the PBS documentary, The Art of Magic. (Write and tell them they should re-release it on DVD!)
The Card Under Glass is a classic of Magic Bar, the creation of the seminal Magic Bartender, Al “Heba Haba” Andrucci (about whom I wrote in “A Brief History of Magic Bar,” which originally appeared in Genii magazine and was subsequently reprinted in my book, Shattering Illusions. I developed my own routine, from which this excerpt is drawn, as Magic Bartender at the Inn of Magic in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, circa 1985/86. Two weeks ago I had a great time performing it at the W.C. Fields Bar in the Magic Castle in Hollywood.
