ReaderRecommended: ' Set in 1905, the play follows the efforts of seamstress Esther (the perfect Mildred Marie Langford) to reconcile her desire for love and marriage with her ambition to open her own business.' | Kelly Kleiman'
The backstory comes from a 1912 memoir by impresario Michael B. Leavitt, which Masterson acquired in an online auction. Leavitt outlines the battle for dominance as America’s best magician over a century ago between Alexander Herrmann and Harry Kellar.“Magicians are insanely jealous of one another,” Masterson notes.
In reality, neither Herrmann nor Kellar had it easy as kids, but they weren’t inclined to take it easy on each other. Through a series of tricks that also show off Masterson’s ease with the members of the audience he enlists as his volunteers, we see the grit and sweat and grim determination underpinning their careers. It culminates in a fabulously macabre “Dance of the Seven Fools,” involving cordial glasses and playing cards.
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