Harry Performs for 60,553 people!…




I have been doing magic a lot longer than people expect!
I started entertaining in nightclubs when I was just 13 years old and by the time I was 18 and in college, I was performing my shows nightly at the New York Playboy Club!
During my senior year of High School I was approached by the marching band director to see if I would be interested in performing magic on the 50 yard line during the halftime show for that year’s football season — the culmination of which we would be presenting the routine on the 50 yard line of a professional football game at the Meadowlands!
This would be the FIRST TIME magic was ever presented at a professional football game!
It was quite a challenge finding a routine that would work in the round and be visible enough for large audiences to see and appreciate, and we designed and built a version of Houdini’s most famous illusion — “The Metamorphosis”!
During the halftime show as the band played, the band leader was handcuffed, tied in a sack and locked inside of a trunk. As the music continued, I jumped on top of the trunk and lifted up a curtain that surrounded it and seconds later when the curtain was dropped to the ground, instead of me on the trunk, it was the bandleader who continued leading the band without missing a beat! As the number finished the trunk was unlocked, the sack untied and I lept out handcuffed!
People were always shocked and the reactions were always spontaneous cheering and applause!
When we presented the show at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in 1976 for a live audience of 60,553 people (plus a televised audience), I never gave the lighted scoreboards much thought, but as I lifted the curtain, I glanced skyward and saw myself bigger than life on the huge screens and smiled…
…seconds later I was in the trunk handcuffed and tied up in a sack!

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