David Copperfield is the most commercially successful magician in history. He continues to sell out any all tours and reimagined magic all together. Originally wanting to be a ventriloquist, he bought a dummy and performed for the class. Unhappy with the results, he went on a hunt for a better dummy and came home with a coin disappearing trick instead.
That is where it all began. At the age of 10. As ‘Davino the boy Magician’. By the age of 12, David was invited to join the Society of American Magicians and at 16, he was teaching “The Art of Magic” at New York University.
At 18, David was cast in a musical comedy – “The Magic Man” – he adopted the name Copperfield from Dickens, idolized Fred Astaire, Orson Welles and Walt Disney; and the rest is history.
In 1975, performances at the Pagoda Hotel in Hawaii got the ball rolling for his solo magic act. The next year, ‘Magic at the Roxy’ had him on and ABC put him on a TV special ‘The Magic of ABC’. After that, CBS bought Copperfield up and slated him for a yearly special “The Magic of David Copperfield”.
His illusions include some amazing things such as:
Walking Through the Great Wall of China
Escaping From Alcatraz
Making the Statue of Liberty Disappear
The Vanishing Airplane
The Levitating Ferrari
Floating Over the Grand Canyon
And So Many More!
Other than his illusionist fame, Copperfield co-produced ‘Dreams and Nightmares’ that performed on Broadway in December 1996 and broke records of ticket sales. Dean Koontz, Joyce Oates and Ray Bradbury helped him write a fiction book based on magic called “David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible.” The popularity of the first book brought about “David Copperfield’s Beyond Imagination” shortly after that.
38 Emmy nominations with 21 wins were given in his honor as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Star was the first given to a living magician.
Project Magic is a foundation founded by Copperfield in which he works with therapists to use magic as therapy.
And if you want to see him, he’s in Vegas at the ‘David Copperfield Theater’ MGM Grand
That is where it all began. At the age of 10. As ‘Davino the boy Magician’. By the age of 12, David was invited to join the Society of American Magicians and at 16, he was teaching “The Art of Magic” at New York University.
At 18, David was cast in a musical comedy – “The Magic Man” – he adopted the name Copperfield from Dickens, idolized Fred Astaire, Orson Welles and Walt Disney; and the rest is history.
In 1975, performances at the Pagoda Hotel in Hawaii got the ball rolling for his solo magic act. The next year, ‘Magic at the Roxy’ had him on and ABC put him on a TV special ‘The Magic of ABC’. After that, CBS bought Copperfield up and slated him for a yearly special “The Magic of David Copperfield”.
His illusions include some amazing things such as:
Walking Through the Great Wall of China
Escaping From Alcatraz
Making the Statue of Liberty Disappear
The Vanishing Airplane
The Levitating Ferrari
Floating Over the Grand Canyon
And So Many More!
Other than his illusionist fame, Copperfield co-produced ‘Dreams and Nightmares’ that performed on Broadway in December 1996 and broke records of ticket sales. Dean Koontz, Joyce Oates and Ray Bradbury helped him write a fiction book based on magic called “David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible.” The popularity of the first book brought about “David Copperfield’s Beyond Imagination” shortly after that.
38 Emmy nominations with 21 wins were given in his honor as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Star was the first given to a living magician.
Project Magic is a foundation founded by Copperfield in which he works with therapists to use magic as therapy.
And if you want to see him, he’s in Vegas at the ‘David Copperfield Theater’ MGM Grand