“David Copperfield, World of Wonder” Show Cancelled
Date: 2nd & 3rd November 2007(Friday & Saturday)
Time: 7pm
Venue: Singapore Indoor Stadium
Ticket pricing: $148, $128, $98, $68 (excluding $2 SISTIC fee)
SISTIC ticketing hotline: 6348 5555 or www.unusual.com.sg

David Copperfield: World of Wonder - Show Cancelled

Despite a six year absence, the magic of David Copperfield, one of the world’s greatest illusionists, remains a lure for many.

One week into the launch of his new tour “WORLD OF WONDER” and tickets for the top priced tier of $148 to the 7pm show on 2nd November (Friday), and tickets to the top two priced tier of $148 and $128 to the 7pm show on 3rd November (Saturday) is sold out.

Due to the overwhelming response, two more afternoon shows have been added. One will be on 2nd November (Friday) at 4pm and the other on 3rd November (Saturday) at 3:30pm. Tickets to these additional shows will be released for sale via all SISTIC outlets from 12 September onwards.

True to its title, “WOLRD OF WONDER” is the logical and incredible evolution of this conjurer, David Copperfield’s art. Copperfield’s goal in “WORLD OF WONDER” is to take one’s dreams (and maybe a few nightmares) and make them become reality using his state of the art wizardry.

Imagine if you could win the lottery, laugh at off-beat hysterical comedy and experience heart stopping death defying illusions. It all becomes a reality, every night.

“For magic to be relevant,” explains Copperfield, “it has to evolve so it keeps up with, or even surpasses, the best film and theater. I want to base my work on what people really dream about. Most of us don’t dream of pulling a rabbit out of a hat. But what affects people is realizing personal dreams, dreams almost everyone shares, that they thought were impossible."

Expounding further, Copperfield says, " 'WORLD OF WONDER' was partly inspired by an unfulfilled wish of my grandfather’s that a lot of people share: winning the lottery. We call it an ‘intimate’ evening of grand illusion partly because it’s interactive. In one of the pieces, for example, the audience discovers how to predict lottery numbers that will come up that night. They get to participate in illusions that blur the line between magic and reality.”

Show highlights include:

KILLER: In an “unplugged” moment of pure sleight-of-hand Copperfield performs “close-up” magic with a lethal black African scorpion. One of the most original, startling—and dangerous—effects ever, this unforgettable display of sleight-of-hand presents Copperfield with a true challenge to his will and dexterity, in a test not to be tried at home.

THE FAN: David walked through the Great Wall of China. This time, he’ll do it with an element of danger. David attempts to walk through a two-story tall high powered industrial fan in full view of the audience, proving that dreams can dissolve barriers.

SQUEEZEBOX: Copperfield takes liposuction to a whole new level as the six-foot-one “King of Magic” gets squeezed into a bite-size piece that could fit into a Prada shoebox.

THE LOTTERY: Inspired by David’s grandfather’s unfilled dream, “The Lottery” is an astonishing epic of brain-busters. Copperfield involves the entire audience, and shares his secret technique for predicting the winning numbers of “The Lottery.”

DEATH SAW: Possibly the most deadly illusion ever conceived. David must cheat death every night while attempting to escape being strapped and shackled down underneath an enormous unstoppable spinning saw blade. Copperfield’s only way of escape is to pick the locks in record time, before the blade tears him apart using only a hairpin borrowed from a volunteer in the audience.

MOTORCYCLE: Copperfield brings visual magic to a new level by vanishing a brand new Harley Davidson motorcycle, suspended in air while he is still on it.
“David Copperfield: WORLD OF WONDER” is an affecting, life-changing event that reaches into the audiences’ minds and hearts, and takes them on a feast of wish fulfillment. Displaying his off-the-cuff brand of humor, Copperfield breaks new ground in “WORLD OF WONDER” and takes his art to a grand yet intimate - personal yet universal - dimension for an evening of wonders that will never be forgotten, on the 2nd and 3rd November only, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Show details

“David Copperfield, World of Wonder”
Date: 2nd & 3rd November 2007(Friday & Saturday)
Venue: Singapore Indoor Stadium
Ticket pricing: $148, $128, $98, $68 (excluding $2 SISTIC fee)
SISTIC ticketing hotline: 6348 5555 or www.unusual.com.sg

More on David Copperfield - Magical Highlights

• David Copperfield vanished an airplane surrounded by a ring of spectators.
• He made the Statue of Liberty disappear before a live audience of New Yorkers and a home television audience estimated at over 50 million.
• During his eighth annual special, Copperfield walked through the Great Wall of China, as thousands of live spectators looked on.
• He levitated himself across the Grand Canyon.
• He became the first person to escape from Alcatraz.
• He escaped from an imploding building and survived a plunge over the precipice of Niagara Falls.
• Copperfield made a seventy-ton Orient Express train car vanish in mid-air above a circle of witnesses.
• He defied gravity, unlocking the mystery of human flight, in his milestone illusion, "Flying."
• In "Fires Of Passion," one of Copperfield's television specials, he hung ten storey high with burning ropes wearing a straight jacket above a bed of flaming spikes - the escape that not even Houdini would attempt.
• Although perhaps best known for the "grand illusion," Copperfield is also a master of pure sleight-of-hand. In "Fires of Passion," he destroyed and restored the famous Honus Wagner baseball card, worth well over a million dollars, in front of its admittedly nervous owner, hockey great Wayne Gretsky.
• The average time it takes Copperfield to create a new illusion, from conception to performance is two and a half years.  "Flying" took over seven years to develop. 
• He has been knighted by the French government, receiving the Chevalier of Arts and Letters and has received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Fordham University.
• Copperfield owns the International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts, the world's largest repository of antiquarian books, magic, illusions, and other ephemera on magic and the allied arts.
• He has performed seven times for Presidents of the United States.
• In 1995, Copperfield was given a star and inducted into the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.
• He has published two books:  Tales of the Impossible, an anthology of original fiction set in the world of magic and illusion, on which he collaborated with Ray Bradbury, Dean Koontz, Joyce Carol Oates and others; and Beyond Imagination (anthology part 2).
• Copperfield has been honored with a wax likeness of him in Madame Tussaud's in London.

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