RICKY JAY'S ROGUE'S GALLERY

Ricky Jay is beginning a tour of his new show, "A Rogue's Gallery: An Evening of Conversation & Performance" and is interviewed in The Phoenix prior to its' run at the Somerville Theater. In Jay's own words, "It's really different — it's a new show. It's an odd combination of visual and historical and magical and autobiographical and improvisational. The improvisation is the one thing that makes it really different. I call on people from the audience not just as participants in the sleight of hand but in steering the direction of the verbal material. Some of the choices will be determined by things I've collected over the years, such as posters. So their choices and those images will determine the material."