{"id":300755,"date":"2023-11-28T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=300755"},"modified":"2023-11-29T22:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T04:01:28","slug":"what-david-blaine-will-and-wont-do-at-his-vegas-nye-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/what-david-blaine-will-and-wont-do-at-his-vegas-nye-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"What David Blaine Will and Won’t Do at his Vegas NYE Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

When David Blaine\u2019s new Las Vegas residency, \u201cIMpossible,\u201d debuts at the Encore Theater on New Year\u2019s Eve weekend, \u201cso many dangerous things\u201d will be attempted, the illusionist told the New York Post.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two will not.<\/p>\n

\"David
Swallowing a coat hanger is one of the stunts that illusionist David Blaine will perform during his upcoming new Las Vegas residency, opening at Wynn Las Vegas on New Year\u2019s Eve. (Image: New York Post<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the things audiences will get to see Blaine do are swallowing a metal coat hanger, holding his breath underwater for up to 10 minutes, and trying not to screw up the infamous ice pick trick again.<\/p>\n

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When it goes as planned, that last trick sees Blaine, blindfolded, use two members of the audience to guess which of three cups conceals an upward-facing ice pick. Then, he places both hands over the other two cups and smashes them downward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Last December 17, during his residency at Resorts World, Blaine smashed the wrong cup.<\/p>\n

“I wasn\u2019t sure where it was and I didn\u2019t want to delay the show,\u201d he told The<\/em> Post,<\/em> referring to the ice pick. \u201cLots of magicians mess themselves up on this thing. I bled everywhere. I went off stage for 40 seconds, cleaned the blood, and came back out. That won\u2019t stop me from performing it at the Wynn.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the Wynn shows, which will be directed by David Korins — creative director of the Broadway musical \u201cHamilton\u201d — the illusionist also promises a heap of interactive magic. (That\u2019s why the \u201cIM\u201d is capitalized in \u201cIMpossible.\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This includes a mysterious final trick in which audience members will participate using decks of cards they’re handed.<\/p>\n

What You Won\u2019t<\/em> See<\/h2>\n

Blaine came across a stunt that captured his imagination earlier this year. It was while he filmed \u201cBeyond Belief,\u201d an upcoming TV series he co-executive-produced with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment for Disney+<\/em> and Nat Geo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the series, Blaine seeks out extreme stunt performers in Southern Asia who can teach him their secrets, which is how he ends up buried in scorpions and eating red hot coals.<\/p>\n

When Blaine found an Indian street performer who punctured his torso with skewers and hooks, he considered attempting it until, as he told The Post,<\/em> “my doctor advised me against it.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hmm. Does Blaine, who lived in a block of ice for almost 64 hours, electrified himself with Tesla coils while standing atop a 22-foot-tall pillar, and floated nearly 25K feet into the air by holding onto balloons, seem like the kind of person who normally listens to doctors?<\/p>\n

No Dice on This One, Too<\/h2>\n

The Resorts World show, which ran from September 2022 until June 2023, famously began with Blaine jumping from a lighting truss nine stories in the air onto a bed of empty cardboard boxes stacked by audience members.<\/p>\n

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Doctors take turns attempting to pop David Blaine\u2019s dislocated shoulder back into place, following a failed stunt that opened his show on March 12 at Resorts World. (Image: Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On March 12, Blaine dislocated his right shoulder during the stunt.<\/a> Where most performers would have just canceled the show and gone to a hospital, Blaine made his painful predicament part of the act.<\/p>\n

After his own crew failed to pop his right shoulder back into place, in full view of the gasping audience, Blaine called on any doctors in the house to come forward. Fortunately for him, a convention of orthopedic doctors was in town and one of them performed the procedure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m lucky the injury was to my shoulder and not to my neck. Now the jump is off,\u201d he told The Post. <\/em>\u201cI promised my (12-year-old) daughter that I wouldn\u2019t do it again in my show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ever the illusionist, what Blaine didn’t mention is that the Encore Theater stage isn’t nearly tall enough to allow a repeat performance of that trick anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid Blaine: IMPOSSIBLE\u201d will play December 29-31, February 14, 17, and 18; March 27, 29, and 30; and May 8, 10, and 11 at the Encore Theater. Tickets, starting at $69.95 plus taxes and fees, are available through Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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