CASTLE PINES, Colo. — Liam Abner is aware of his thoughts works in mysterious methods, a thoughts tailored for the world of phantasm.
The 16-year-old Citadel Pines magician is already making a reputation for himself, as he is set to look on the hit TV present “Penn & Teller: Idiot Us.”
Liam’s ardour for magic began six years in the past, when he caught a magic present by Richard Nakata at Reinke Bros in Littleton.
“I used to be hooked immediately,” Abner mentioned. “He really helpful a sequence of books to me, ‘The Tarbell Course in Magic,’ they’re nonetheless on my bookshelf, and I nonetheless learn them each week.”
By way of the years, Liam’s magical talents continued to develop and he is developed his personal tips.
“I’ve actually doubled down on practising and studying the enterprise facet of magic,” Abner mentioned. “Being on ‘Penn & Teller: Idiot Us’ is a testomony to that progress.”
Picture courtesy of Liam Abner.
The journey to Idiot Us started a couple of 12 months in the past, when Abner submitted a video software for the present. The teenager filmed a trick he’d been perfecting together with his favourite instrument: the tuba.
“I needed to create one thing that mixed my two passions: magic and music. It simply clicked,” Abner mentioned.
After sending within the video, he was invited to a Zoom name the place producers gave him a number of fast suggestions and welcomed him to the present.
For Abner, creating magic is an artwork kind that’s in contrast to every other.
“While you’re within the second, there’s no stress or fear—simply the magic taking place proper in entrance of you,” Abner mentioned. “It’s a second of pure pleasure, for each the magician and the viewers, I do not know find out how to describe apart from that it is simply pure magic.”
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After his efficiency, Abner mentioned a gathering with Teller left a long-lasting impression.
“Teller shook my hand and mentioned, ‘On this trick, you might have achieved the best type of magical causality you probably might have.’ To listen to that from him was wonderful, and it’ll keep on with me perpetually,” Abner mentioned.
Though the Citadel Pines teen has achieved mainstream success, he is nonetheless centered on native exhibits as nicely. A lot of Abner’s early performances have been with ARC Thrift Shops, bringing magic to people with developmental disabilities.
“I wish to perceive how they expertise magic and leisure,” Abner mentioned. “It’s essential to me that they expertise magic in a approach that’s significant to them.”
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So, what’s subsequent for the younger magician?
“I’ve received lots within the works. I’m planning a public present with a good friend from Canada this spring, and there are a number of extra native performances developing quickly,” Abner mentioned.
Keep tuned for his look on “Penn & Teller: Idiot Us” at 8 p.m. Friday MST. It’s certain to be a magical second.
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