Who: Fred Siegel, Eric Van Wie, The Rosen Sisters (Deborah Rosen and Gail Rosen)

Why: We love magic and wanted to create shows for people to see some cool tricks, have some laughs, and just unwind. If you love magic, you'll love our shows. If you hate magic, you'll still love our shows, since this is not a typical magic show.

What: Fred’s Magic World creates extraordinary performances filled with mirth, magic and comical mayhem. This is not your typical magic show. Fred’s Magic World features magic and comedy acts including a Houdini-like underwater escape, a straitjacket escape, psychic sisters, a baffling memory exhibition, communicating with the dead, showers of money, dueling magicians, dexterous displays of sleight of hand, the ultimate card trick versus silk trick smackdown, frightening feats with knives, comedy improv (like Who’s Line is it Anyway) and musical numbers. We take the classics of magic that have thrilled audiences for centuries and brings them into the 21st century.

Our shows can be customized to entertain any age group and to work within most budgets.

More Who: Fred Siegel is a magician and was a featured performer in Bradshaw's Circus of World Curiosities, a Coney Island freak show. He is also the 2002 stage magic champion and the 2004 close-up magic champion of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. The Rosen Sisters (Gail Rosen and Deborah Rosen) are psychic entertainers. The sisters won the MAES (Magicians Alliance of Eastern States) 2002 mentalism award. Eric Van Wie is a Shakespearian actor, comedy chameleon, and puppeteer who portrays a variety of bizarre characters such as Ian, the aggressive Scottish escapologist; Igor, the slavishly devoted lab assistant; Mr. Beauregard, the owner of the magic store that has everything; and The Great Magician, a pompous magic genius whose tricks never work. No show would be complete without a visit from several of these characters.

The idea behind FRED'S MAGIC WORLD was born about fifteen years ago, when Fred Siegel was working towards his Ph.D. in Performance Studies at NYU. During the summers, Fred worked ten hour days as an "inside talker" and magician at Bradshaw's Circus of World Curiosities, a Coney Island freak show. Fred received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies from NYU in 1993. His widely quoted dissertation is entitled The Vaudeville Magic Act:1880-1930. A copy was recently sold on E-Bay!

FRED'S MAGIC WORLD has been performing vaudeville-style variety acts featuring magic and comedy for the past eight years. They performed three well-received shows at the 1998-2000 Philadelphia Fringe Festivals. In 2001 they presented FRED'S MAGIC WORLD, a full length production with comedy and magic. "The wackiness of Fred's Magic World immediately caught our attention," stated The Philadelphia Inquirer (November 30, 2001). The Philadelphia Weekly wrote that it contained "...mind-boggling examples of magic and inspired bits of comedy (December 19, 2001)." The Philadelphia Daily News called it "...a production that is like no other in Philadelphia (December 21, 2001)." In 2003, they presented Halloween Magic Spooktacular. "The Rosen sisters are natural comedians...inspired lunacy," stated the Philadelphia City Paper (October 16, 2003). They rang in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 New Year with Winter Wonders. They spent most of the 2005/2006 season performing Monthly Magic. The Philadelphia City Paper advises “So be amazed already (November 24, 2005).”

For more information: email us at fredsmagicworld@comcast.net or call 215-627-6564