Adam Jewell – Search & Affiliate Marketing

On the way back from CJU in Santa Barbara, I decided to swing through Vegas. A deal on Petitie Suite at Treasure Island was secured on Orbitz for around $100/night and since I’m not much of a gambler, I usualy try to see a few shows. I have always LOVED David Copperfield. He’s an amazing magician and I ws thrilled to see him way back int the day, maybe 20 years ago with my dad. That shows was probably at Heinze Hall in Pittsburgh.

If you are interested in going to see David Copperfield live at the MGM Grand, you can buy David Copperfield tickets at the MGM grand box office or you can get them the day of the show at Tix4Tonight which is an “outlet” of sorts that sells discounted tickets to various shows in Vegas.

So anyway, the David Copperfield show wasn’t even close to being sold out for the 10pm show on a Friday night. It might have been 50% – 60% sold. The show opened with a video highlighting the wide popularity and recognition of David Copperfield and there was a lot of video filler throughout the show. Some of it was interesting and it did add some to the show but there was to much of it or the show was to short.

He did a good job of involving the audience but the show laster an hour and fifteen minutes and maybe 15% of it was simply watching videos of David Copperfield’s past performances. There were a few card tricks, a little sleight of hand magic and he made some people vanish, some things appear and created the illusion of somehow going through a big metal plate. The stuff he did wasn’t trivial and it did take somewhat of a setup to make it all happen. He had the sidekick Quackers the duck in the routine for a little humor but that was a very small part of it. The duck peed on the audience members a few times and added a little to the show.

Overall the show wasn’t bad, there were a few neat tricks but it wasn’t good either and it is not worth $100 to go see the show. If you REALLY love David Copperfield then you might want to go see it if you are in Vegas but don’t go to far out of your way to go to see David Copperfield at the MGM Grand in Vegas.

Tonight I managed to get tickets for Jay Leno playing at the MGM Mirage right here next to the Treasure Island Resort and Casino. Hopefully Leno will be better than Copperfield and maybe the show will even go for more than an hour. I’m a huge Leno fan and hope he is even better on stage than he is on late night TV. Dave, if ya read this, you are an awesome performer but the show in Vegas was a bit of a dissapointment and not your best work.