RickyJay/McCabe's at UCLA

[Bill Mullins]

HERE

[Magic Randy]

Thanks...

[Gord]

Finally, an event both my brother (A guitarist) and I (A magician) can enjoy together.

Gord

[Jeff Eline]

Any relation to Pete?

[Pete McCabe]

Nope.

The event could also be enjoyed by Jay Graydon, studio guitarist and producer who visits the Magic Castle every couple months.

[Pete Biro]

Funny... one of Ricky Jay's performances at McCabe's involved a comedy hypnotic spoof with four stooges. One was Dai Vernon. I was one, and unfortunatley I'm having trouble remembering the other two (one was a femle who's sister was on Sat. Nite live). It was very funny and a bit scary as a laymen came onstage and claimed, later, that he was actually hypnotized. You had to be there.

[Bill Mullins]

(one was a femle who's sister was on Sat. Nite live).

Probably Tracey Newman, who is Laraine Newman's sister. Tracey was Jay's girlfriend for a while, and was the naked woman in "Cards as Weapons." She is now a musician.

[Jim Martin]

Here's a link to her site:

http://www.tracynewman.com/

From the current photo it looks like she's about to perform Interlocked Production of Cards; obviously influenced by Ricky Jay.

[Jack Turk]

I remember seeing Ricky Jay back in the 1970s
in a little classroom at Western Michigan University
in Kalamazoo. At the time the primary comedy
magicians I'd seen had been guys like Duke Stern,
Monk Watson, and Senator Crandall -- all great...
all hits at the Abbotts' get-togethers.

However, I was totally jazzed by long-haired Ricky's
rock-n-roll, off-beat persona. One bit he did,
"sending plastic mouse and chosen card flying
through the air akimboooo...." really opened my eyes
to other comic alternatives.

Thirty years later I can't get that line out of
my head... I'm still laughing. The guy's great!

--Jack

[Pete Biro]

Bill: Right, it was Tracey Newman. The fourth "stooge" was a cardman/lawyer specializing in entertainment law... (I just can't pull names out from those days) :(