Magician is up to all kinds of tricks at Pigeon Forge theater
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. – Night after night, Terry Evanswood pulls tricks.
He makes women float in the air. He escapes from the sharp blades of a circular saw.
Evanswood also makes a duck vanish from the stage of his Pigeon Forge, Tenn., theater. Then, magically, he makes it reappear in a bucket – in the second row of the audience!
The magician’s high-energy show specializes in stunning illusions, using exotic animals and mind-boggling special effects. Evanswood performs card tricks and – “automagically,” as he says – pulls cards right out of his mouth.
LIFELONG LOVE
For Evanswood, who grew up near Chicago, making magic has been a lifelong love. The magician is not trying to trick anyone, he said.
He just wants to bring out the child in everyone who attends his show – and get them to lose themselves in the magic, he added.
“The only thing he’s ever wanted to do was to be a magician – from about 8 years old,” said Bob Evanswood, the magician’s father, during a show intermission.
Still, this is not a talent that runs in the family, Bob Evanswood said.
“I kid people to say that the only trick I could ever do was walk down the street – and turn into a bar,” Bob Evanswood added with a laugh.
‘HALF-SISTER’
Until landing at his own Magic Beyond Belief theater about three years ago, Terry Evanswood, 39, had spent much of his life on the road, performing magic tricks.
He is a member of both the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Society of American Magicians.
And today, his father said, “I’m very impressed with his comedic delivery and humor.”
On stage, for example, Evanswood the magician began to start one trick but first offered a preface:
“When I was a kid,” Terry Evanswood began, “I tried to cut my sister in half – and my parents are still mad ... And my half-sister? She won’t talk to me.”
IF YOU GO: SHOWS IN THE SMOKIES
Magic Beyond Belief: 2135 Parkway, Pigeon Forge, Tenn., near Traffic Light No. 1. Show is $29.95 (adults) and $9.95 (children). One child (ages 11 and younger) is admitted free with each paying adult. Shows at 8:15 p.m. Monday-Saturday, with 3 p.m. matinees on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Call (865) 428-5600 or (866) 492-6972. Visit www.pigeonforgemagic.com.
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