RICKY JAY'S CANADIAN TOUR

As previously reported, Ricky Jay was in Canada earlier this week for several performances of his new one man show "Rogue's Gallery." Not only was the area abuzz with stories leading up to the weekend, reviews and reports on the show. From in an email from the show's publicist, Sarah French, I learned that opening night was very well received and that another well known magician had attended, namely David Blaine. In "The Ampersand" section of the National Post we found a review which reads: 

"Billed as "an evening of conversation and performance," the one-and-a-half-hour show skewed towards conversation, though the peformance aspect showed Jay is still one of the most impressive conjurers in the world. <snip> While A Rogue's Gallery features several impressive card tricks -- "effects," as Jay prefers to call them -- and feats of mentalism, it feels more like a really interesting university lecture than a magic show. Jay's in his element on-stage, whether reciting passages from A Midsummer Night's Dream or cracking jokes. The show suffers on the few occasions where Jay sits back and runs old clips -- of movies, a Steve Martin routine of the Great Flydini, and the into to his new TV show -- rather than engaging with the audience. Still, both amateur magicians and theatre lovers should visit Jay's Rogue's Gallery while he's still in town."