Carl Seiger holds his audience in and with his sleight-of-hand via illusions, magic tricks, humor, and storytelling. He also brings his audience into most of his acts with grace and good reasons, not as a cheap way to amuse. No wonder he’s been brought back to Florida Studio Theater after being one of its entertainments in its first cabaret.
Carl Seiger’s current show is original and good enough to possibly make patrons wonder why it has taken 16 years to bring him back. His repertoire uses, not big production embellishments, but everyday objects like coins, ring, watch, cards, newspaper, egg, lemon, drawings. He amazes with what he does with them rather than effecting grandiose visuals with which to present them.
A majority of Carl Seiger’s tricks involve guessing what audience members think of something, look at in secret, choose from a given selection. He’s a real mind reader! He gets a great deal of attention and well-deserved applause but ends his show humbly, maybe because he already knows how much he’ll be liked.
