This is a unique CD released in 2001 originally by Metro Video Productions, and now under exclusive license to Lybrary.com. The studio-recorded 63-minute CD comprises 30 true stories told by Master Magician Ben Robinson on the role of synchronicity in
"John Mulholland is surely one of the most fascinating personalities in
magic history. For his work to advance conjuring as a recognized art, he
deserves tremendous respect, and no serious student of magic will want to skip this book." Michael Claxton,
This is the audio-book version of The MagiCIAn: John Mulholland's Secret Life. Listening time over 9 hours. The author, Ben Robinsion, reads the entire book. Additionally he also reads ten letters to and from Mulholland previously unpublished and
Ben Robinson Ben Robinson became enamored with magic by watching Dutch master magician
Fred Kaps follow the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Seven years later, he made his professional debut. He has since written histories of: Martinka &
Co., the oldest US magical supply house, the vanishing elephant illusion, a
pictorial history of the rabbit-in-hat icon, a short biography of the Marx
Brothers grandfather-magician Laff Schoenberg, and the cult classic history
of magicians killed attempting to catch bullets in their teeth: Twelve Have
Died (1986). His life-long study of Buster Keatonıs use of illusion was
published in 2002 by the International Buster Keaton Society, The Damfinos.
In 2008 he received a trophy from the International Brotherhood of Magicians
for his writing on Al Flosso: An American Original 1895-1976.
He was first presented as a one-man surrealist magic show (Out Of Order) by
avant-garde and Broadway producer Lyn Austin and her Music-Theatre Group in
1988. In 1989 he trekked to the Base Camp of Mount Everest with the American
Everest Team and entertained Sherpas, monks and climbers. Other one-man
shows: After Magic?, Pyschodyssey, and Time For Magic.
In 2005, he recreated John Mulhollandıs performance at Mulhollandıs alma
mater, using some of Mulhollandıs actual props. The show was presented
81-years to the day of Mulhollandıs last appearance at Horace Mann. He lives in New York.
