MINKIN'S MAGICAL RAINSTORM

David Minkin continues to mesmerize his audiences with close-up magic including the production of rain at his fingertips as he prepares for the reprisal of his Evening of Enchantment at Malibu's Beau Rivage. A recent observer relates the experience in an article from the Jewish Journal. If you closed your eyes, it sounded like soft rain falling in the dimly lit wine cellar. The sound gradually grew in intensity as two-dozen hands rubbing against one another switched to rapid snapping, then to clapping, creating the auditory illusion of a rainstorm. David Minkin then turned the illusion into reality -- he conjured water out of thin air, standing a few feet away from his awestruck audience.