Christmas eve's outing to "World of Magic" Performance

The performance is "World of Magic" and it is a great performance.

Initially I thought that it is just going to be a typical magic show. But it turns up to be much more than that. It actually incorporates magic with muscial and has an asian touch to it.

The storyline goes like this:
A father and daughter magicians are happily working together. The daughter has a crush on the MC of the performing troop. The MC owes a huge sum of money to an evil man who happened to have a feud with the father magician. So the evil man decided to make use of the MC to persuade the daughter magician to leave the dad and to come to work in shanghai instead. The evil man hopes to get the daughter magician to perform a magical trick which she has yet to master, such that she will die while performing the trick.

In the end, all went well and the daughter reunited with the dad.

I think the storyline is really simple. But what was interesting was the way a storyline was interwined into a musical with all the music, dance, entertainment and so cos MAGIC. I never know that magic can be used as a tool to act special effects to a performance.

The asian touch was introduced by the stage design, costume design and the fact that a wu3 shi1 (the traditional lion that u see during chinese new year) was being conjured up instead of mebe santa on his reindeer.

Overall, i think it is quite original to mix magic and musical. After all, everyone has enough of the traditional not so entertaining magic shows on television.