I'm David Copperfield

And you're about to see
a whole lotta of magic

For me, watching this
retrospective is like looking thru

A high school yearbook

It's got some of my best illusions

Some of the worst
haircuts ever put on film

And clothing choices that kept
the '70s alive

At the end, we've added
some recent pieces,

Created for our Broadway show

So sit back and take a look
at 15 years of magic

Well, actually, 20 years of magic

I started very young

David

Okay, go

I dunno where to begin

I've been doing magic all my life

I love magic. I love magic

That's intimate
but I also love magic

That's spectacular, like the year

I decided to vanish a train

I had taken a ride
with the Orient Express

And I knew I had to do
something with it

Well, it took me a year
to find a train car

And a year to work out
the illusion

A train car from the Orient
Express

It weights 70 tons

That's 140,000 pounds

It's 85 feet of steel and iron

A million dollars was spent
just to restore it

A train on its tracks

Set on a floor of solid concrete

A group of spectators will
surround the train

Holding hands forming a circle
around it

Our camera this shot will never
cut away

No camera edits, no video effects

You'll see it at home just like
you'd see it

If you were here with me

Take a good look

'Cause in a few seconds the train
we're in right now

Hopefully won't be here anymore

Everybody, pick up your ropes

Cover cloth

Keep your hands together

There are no camera tricks?

No. All the magic is done live

What you see at home is exactly

What you'd see if you were there
with a live audience

And what's the most dangerous
thing you've ever done?

See these spikes?

For a year

I practiced hanging up side down

Bound and strapped from ropes
10 stories in the air

Then we set the ropes on fire

I had two minutes to escape
before the ropes burned thru

But on the night of the T.V.
Special

To make it a bit more interesting,

We added these spikes beneath me

I was up there in the air

And I looked down on the spikes

And that really freaked me out

I didn't wanna just do an escape

I wanna combine it with the
ritualistic challenges that took

In the jungles of African and
the Amazon

Ceremonially tests of commitment

Courage

They'll hoist me 10 stories above
the spikes

I remember looking down

And the thought of falling on them

Didn't make me very happy

I didn't wanna die that way

Don't try this at home

I hate these spikes

I do 500 show a year

And people think I'm crazy

But I really love it

What I Love the most is
interacting with the audience

You never know what to expect

It's different every night

And the weirdest thing can happen

Thank you very, very much

You know, something really weird
has been happening to me

I keep getting these premonitions

You know when you think of
something and then

It comes true later on?

Well, I've been able to predict
graffiti

Yeah, where it's gonna happen

When it's gonna happen

And what it's gonna say

In fact, I brought with me a...

Brick wall tonight

I got it from East Berlin

They weren't using it anymore

And I've made a prediction inside

This envelope here

It's on a big piece of paper

It's a big drawing that
I made before

The show. Actually it's a painting

It's got some numbers,
some colors a picture

I'm not gonna show it to
you just yet

I'm gonna leave it sealed
inside the envelope

I'm gonna hang it from this
lamp right here

And I'm not gonna touch it

I do need to borrow a lady
from the audience

And I'm gonna do that by throwing
these bricks

Maybe I should just get her myself

What's your name?

Tiffany.

Big hand for Tiffany

Have we ever met before?

No. We're gonna try to find some
other people

We've never met before We're
gonna do that with this brick

It's a rubber brick, so don't
worry it's gonna come right at you

Tiffany, you're gonna throw it
into the audience

When I tell you to Turn your back
to the audience

If it comes close to you, catch it

I need a guy to catch this brick

So show what a man you really are

Tiffany, whip it good. Go for it

Go for it?

Yep

Incredible distance there

You, sir

What is your favorite wild animal?

Not your wife

A tiger

A tiger, fine

Tiffany

Shake up these cans of paint

Shake them up real good

Sir, what's your favorite color?

Yellow

What's your favorite color, sir?

Good choice

Come with me, Tiffany

A blue tiger, Tiffany

Above this line

Stand up here

Stand right up here

Here, I'll take that

Stand right up there

And draw a blue tiger

Charles Darwin would be proud

Take that brick and throw it
behind you as far as you can

Whip it good

Nearest adult guy

Gentleman with the beard

What are your initials?

D.G.

D.G. What's your favorite color?

Red

Great. Red D.G.

Hold on to this, Tiffany.
Come with me

I do the easy ones

D.G., where are you?

Yes. What's your phone number?

Just the first three digits

661 . OK.

Now the last four digits

Take that brick throw it
behind you as far as you can

Whip it good

Nearest adult guy. Who is got it?

You, sir, what's your name?

I'm sorry?

Richard

Richard?

What?

Richard

How do you spell that?

R-I-C-H-A-R-D

Richard

Tiffany, how are you?

Richard, the man next to you
in the glasses.

What's your name?

Harvey

Shouldn’t it be...Harvay?

Richard

Just a joke, Richard

Who is the lady nearest to you?

Judy

He's nodding his head yes

I hope you've got call waiting

Maybe it's because of the
spray paint

Put them on that table

And wait for me over there

Tiger man, where are you?

Where is the tiger man?

There you are

Now, we didn't prearrange this,
did we?

No, we didn't

Tiffany, have we ever met before?
No

D.G., where are you?
Raise your hand

Dick, Harvey, Judy, I mean,
Richard

Have we met before? In unison

Look up unison

Come over here

Stand right over here

This envelope has been hanging

In full view the entire time

I haven't touched it

If the picture I made before
the show

Matches the picture we made

That will be a miracle

Tiffany, hold on to this corner
right there. Hold it up high

A blue tiger. Check it out

Does this not impress you?

It's even new

Hold on that corner there.
Hold it up

Hold it up nice and high. D.G.
661 -9737

You chose the color red.
Check it out

And Dick Loves Judy

Sorry, Harvey

This place is amazing

It's filled with magical mystery

What do you mean?

Look inside that trunk

That's Houdini's trunk

When I got it I looked inside

And I found a piece of paper

With Houdini's own instructions

On how he was gonna do the
illusion that night

It's a classic

Of magic called Metamorphosis

Houdini would tie up his wife,
Bess

Lock her inside the trunk

And very quickly they changed
places

I've always wanna do an illusion
like that

It's taken me 1 4 years to find
a way

To make my own

When I look back over the past
15 years

I realize I spent most of that
time creating new illusions

I grew up in New Jersey

My mom was in insurance

My dad owned a men's clothing
store

Before I was in my teens

I thought it would be cool to
become a ventriloquist

It turned out this place that sold
props for ventriloquist

Is also a magic shop

So instead walking out with
a new dummy

I ended up with a bag of tricks

I started doing little shows
in my home town

When I was 1 8, I got this part

In a musical called
''The Magic Man''

I got to do my own illusions
and sing

And the longer the play ran the
more illusions I performed

And the less songs they wanted me
to do

So I guess I wasn't cut out to
be a singer

When the show closed

I starved in New York for a year

And my dad would slip me a few
bucks to pay the heating bill

I sat in my apartment, inventing
magic finding the right music

And staging the routines

I knocked on a lotta doors

And sent out a lotta videotapes

One day I got a phone call to
host a T.V. Show

I was 19 and I couldn’t believe it

My first few specials were to
music by Gershwin

My inspirations were Gene Kelly
and Fred Astaire

I thought I was really cool

I wore big collars, shiny jackets
and a bad haircut

On my fourth special, I wanna
go beyond

What had been done before

So I took that shiny jacket

And that bad haircut

And made an airplane disappear

A seven ton jet aircraft

Surrounded by scaffolding
12 feet high

This runway is a solid karmlock
base

The plane can't go down,
can't go up

This switch controls the lights
at the back of the enclosure

When the translucent front
wall is up

The lights will back up the plane,

Casting its silhouette on the wall

So you can see the plane

Right up to the moment it vanishes

The plane is locked into place

It will be surrounded by a
human chain

50 spectators linked together

The spectators are being
blindfolded

To protect the secret of
the illusion

Hold hands till I say let go

Let's do it

This shot won't cut away

You'll see it as if you were there

With absolutely no camera tricks

If you can hear me,
raise your hand

Now

Take your blinds off. We did it

I couldn’t believe it
If I had been sitting at home

I could think of some way
to get outta it

But I was right here,
and there was

No way that plane could’ve left

It's just amazing

What happened to the airplane?

I dunno. It went

It went

Thrilling, it was shocking

You had chills

What did you think when you
when they...they drop it

And you took down your blindfold
and it was gone?

It's emphatical

We put together a brand new
illusion

We're auctioning off a brand
new illusion

The pieces I'm most proud of

The Airplane. The Train

The Flying. The Great Wall

The Burning Rope Escape

And one other is the Death Saw

Give me an example of how you
try to make your magic different

Well, there's a sensual side
to magic

That hadn't really been touched

To me, it wasn't just about
doing tricks

It was about taking the audience
to another place

A special place so they could
really suspend their disbelief

It was about relationships

Moving the audience as well as
amazing them

It was about sharing a feeling

Sometimes romantic,
sometimes funny

Sometimes grand and spectacular

Sometimes daring

And sometimes sensual

Dave

When the audience applauds
like that

You have to say something, like...

Very endearing back to them. OK

Repeat after me.
I have never felt...

Never felt

OK, a little softer now

I have never felt...

So, so much Love

So much Love

In one room before

You're a regular Wayne Newton...
Dave

It's very good

You Love your audience.
I like that

The Statue Of Liberty

Standing 305 feet high

And weighing 450,000 pounds

I was gonna make her disappear

We constructed two scaffolding
towers on Liberty Island

In front of the statue

And had a helicopter to give an
aerial view of the illusion

The audience on Liberty Island
was seated here

200 feet in front of the statue

A circle of lights surrounds the
statue and shines upon it

A curtain would be raised between
the towers

To hide the statue from view

If I successfully vanish
the statue

Searchlights would pass thru
the empty space

That was occupied just moments
before

We even had radar to show the
statue's position

In front of a live audience on
Liberty Island

The disappearance of The Statue
Of Liberty

There's that jacket again

Right about now I'm thinking

I hope this works

Entire thing. It just disappeared

What happened, where it was gone
I have no idea

No idea where it went to

It was fascinating to watch it

I tell you. If I was home
watching T.V

I'd be a little skeptical

But I was here.
I knew it was there

Now it's not there

I dunno what happened to it

When that curtain went down

And there was nothing there
I just couldn’t believe it

Your reaction?

I was amazed

I don't see it

It was there and
it's not there anymore

I've never seen a Statue

Of Liberty
disappear the way this one did

And as the audience watched

I brought her back

So David, what surprises you?

Well, I spend months of time

And energy working
on these huge illusions,

But sometimes it's
the small stuff,

The pure slight of hand
the audience really relates to

I need to borrow a gentleman
from the audience

Let me see what I can find here

Yeah, really

Oh, boy!

He can make the Statue of
Liberty disappear

But he can't walk down a
set of steps

As pulling a rabbit outta hat

But I always try to remember
my partner on stage

Could also be a romantic partner

What about the people you
work with?

It's weird, but the culture of my
craft is sometimes strange

For centuries, magicians have been
taking their assistants

And sticking swords thru them
or cutting them in half

It's as much a part of magic
history

Right now we're gonna do
something really cool

You and I are gonna do it together

So far you've been watching David
do magic before a live audience

Now it's your turn to participate

In a moment, all you have to do is
simply touch your T.V. Screen

As unbelievable as it sounds

David will try to make the magic
happen

Right in your own home

That's right.

Tonight you've seen me choose
people from the audience.

Now I'm choosing you

It's important because if you
don't play along

In the next few minutes,
it'll be totally meaningless

Here's the plan

If there are several of you
in the room

Choose one person to participate

Right now stand up and come
close to your T.V.

Close enough to actually touch
your screen

Do it now and touch my finger

That wasn't the cool part

You can let go off the screen now

But don't move away because in a
moment by touching the screen

You and I are gonna do something
really amazing

Now take a good look at these
destinations of flight

And listen carefully

Here's the idea.

Tonight you're gonna put your
finger here

And fly from place to place
around the circle

And I'm gonna find you

The amazing thing is even though
you're at home and I'm here

I'll know exactly where you are

There are many places to fly to

A star, the clouds, a moon and
so on

I want you to think a secret
number

Between 5 and 15

Any number between 5 and 15

It's your choice

I have no idea what number
you're thinking of

In a moment you're gonna move
your finger the same number

Of times as your secret number

For example, if your secret
number was nine,

You'd move nine times

1 , 2, 3, 4, 5,

6, 7, 8, 9,

Bringing you to the island.
If it were 6

1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

There are a lotta possibilities

This is your last chance to
participate

So come real close to
your T.V. So you can touch it

Stand over here so everyone
can see

Right now put your finger here

And get ready to move the amount
equal to your secret number

Move as I count. Ready?

1 , 2, 3, 4, 5,

And so on

When you reach your secret number

Stop and keep your finger there

Good

Now get ready to move
in the other direction

The same number you just moved

The amount equivalent to
your secret number

Move in this direction as I count

Ready?

1 , 2, 3, 4,

5, so on

When you finish leave
your finger on the final place

You've touched

Now I know you're not
on the rainbow

So we'll take it away

And I know you're not
in the castle

So I remove it

I know you're not in the mountains

So I take that away

And I know you're not
in the pyramids either,

So I move them, too

In a moment I'll ask you
to move four times

Either in this direction
or that direction

Whichever direction you want

Move four times. Ready?

1 , 2, 3, 4,

And keep your finger there

I know you're not

In the Eiffel Tower

Now I know you're not

In the clouds

And I know you're not

In the city either

Keep your finger touching
the screen

I'm gonna take this arrow
and put it right

Here

Remember you chose your own
secret number

And you flew at random around
the screen

But believe it or not even though
you're at home and I'm here

I'm gonna find you

Keep touching and watch

You're on the moon

Now comes the part of the show

Where I get somebody outta the
audience

And make them into a magician

Sit back

Relax

Shut that kid up

I'm just kidding

Shut him up

You've done so many different
things

Where do you get your ideas?

My library when I look thru
magical history

The recurring theme is
for people to pass thru objects

Or walk thru walls

A friend of mine suggested that

If you're gonna walk thru a wall

Why not

Walk thru The Great Wall of China

I think she was joking but...

I took her seriously

The Great Wall of China

3,000 miles long

The only man made object visible
from the moon

Built to keep armies
from getting thru

Well, I was determined
to walk thru it

This remote control camera
will never cut away

It'll start on one side
of the wall

See me enter the wall

Without cutting away

The camera will travel over
the wall and hopefully

See me emerge from the other side

Walking thru The Great Wall
of China

They even monitored my heart

I've read somewhere that magic
sometimes is based on misdirection

What does that mean?

I'll give you an example

One year I told the powers that

I wanna do a version of...
buried alive

Where I'd be locked into
a container

Covered with tons of earth

And I have to make my escape

Well, they hated the idea

They thought it was morbid

They wanna have nothing to do
with it

So I took the same idea and
put it into a bulling

That was about to implode

You know explode?

And they loved it

I don't think they ever
realized that

It was the same idea

That they said no to
in the first place

That's misdirection

In a few hours

The same thing will be happening

To that bulling behind me

The only difference is
I'll be inside

Locked in a safe, trying to escape

This is a sheet of polished
stainless steel

It's one inch thick

It'll play a very important part
in what we're about to do

I'll have 2 minutes and 30 seconds

To free myself from the safe

Inside the building

And get to this X

That we're placing
on the steel plate

From inside the building to this X

Before the building blows up

We're inside the building

Which is competed wired
with explosives

This safe was provided by
The First Security Safe

The walls are 4 inches thick

We've installed a remote
control camera

So that you at home

And the people outside

Can keep an eye on the safe
at all times

How you doing?

The committee outside is checking
once again to make sure

That the steel plate is solid

And that the X is in place

This timer controls the detonation
of the explosives

It'll count down to 2 minutes and
30 seconds

And then you know what

These officers are here

To ensure everything is on the up
and up

Gentlemen, you examined the safe?

Yes, we have

And you searched me thoroughly?

Yes, we did

Thank you very much

Just keep in mind that

Our T.V. Audience and
our live audience

Are seeing the exact same thing

You at home will see what the
people are seeing right here

We'll simultaneously show our
remote

Controlled camera outside the safe

And our handheld camera

So you'll see everything

Gentlemen?

Guys, just one minute

I always wanna fly on stage

Not just float but really fly live

Right in front of people

Without wings, strings,
or camera tricks

Well, it took 7 years
to finally live that dream

And to make it really believable

I wanted people from the
audience on stage with me

Hello, you come with me, please

Stand over here

This gentleman right here,
come with me

Stand right over here

You can keep going back stage

What, what's your name?

Bambi

I'm sorry?

Bambi

Your name is Bambi?

Are you serious?

I'm serious

And you must be thumper

Yes. Fine

Bambi, your name is really Bambi?

Yeah

I like that. It's fun to say

See,
I'm in this big Plexiglas box

Picture it solid gold on the back
you can examine the backside

Mitch, you examine the front

I do wanna go home
with some of these props

Examine this side, go for it

You sure you're not thumper?

Come over here

I want you to examine the lid

Yeah, me, too

This is the lid of the box

Make sure it's solid

Nice, nice and strong. Lift it up

Over your head

I'm just kidding come over here

Have a seat right here

Mitch

Bambi, you too

Before you do I'm just curious

Have you ever had any dreams

Where you fly?

Perfect. Good

Have a seat right here, Bambi

Even when you were a kid you
never dreamed you could fly?

When you were a little kid. Good

Mitch, your job

Is to keep an eye on this
Plexiglas box

Make sure nobody tampers with it,
OK?

Bambi

Your job is to keep an eye
on Mitch

Make sure he doesn't break the box

Our committee from the audience is
sitting behind the curtain? Good

Did you ever just sit around
and dream?

I do all the time

When I was a kid I didn't think
I fit in at all

I was an only child and I lived
in these apartments where

There weren't any other kids
my own age

So I'd sit outside by myself

And I'd dream

So I wouldn’t feel so alone

You know my best dream?

My best dream was to fly

Not in a balloon or an airplane

But to push against the air

Ride the wind and fly

You ever fly in your dreams?

Even today when I feel lonely

Or insecure, I go back to
that dream

And it helps me leave my problems
and insecurities behind

All the answers were up there

Well, a lotta people have dreams
and

They don't do anything about them

Sometimes I'm afraid that's gonna
happen to me

See

I've been trying to fly for
a long time

I guess if like I was trying

I haven't lost

That was great. I was gonna...

This way

A lotta people think of me in
terms of grand illusion

But in my opinion the most
powerful magic happens

In the performer's hands

It's the purest form of the art

So now take a look at a light
of hand sequence

That features a little tribute
to my first magical influence

I want to...

Show you a home movie

That's me

And that's my grandfather

He's the first person to ever
teach me magic

I was about 10 years old and

He taught me a card trick with
4 aces

And the aces would appear and
disappear it was really cool

And since I was 10 years old

It took me many months to
master it

After I did

I showed it to everybody and
I decided to make magic my life

Everybody thought I was crazy

Except my grandfather

Who always gave me encouragement

I promised him if I ever had
any success

That I'd do his card trick
in my show

Well, my grandfather passed away

Before I ever did a big show

But grandpa...

If you're listening

Tonight I'm gonna keep my promise

Ghosts used to be a standard
theme in magic theater

Illusionists loved the idea of
invoking the other side

Personally I was never big on it

I never got into ghost stories
as a kid

I thought it was weird

And caspers really creeped me out

Way too friendly

Then I heard about an old house
of ill repute

Said to be haunted by the ghosts
of the ladies

Who made it infamous

I need some people from the
audience to verify

What we're about to do

Two guys and a girl

One of the guys needs to be
wearing a jacket that I can borrow

And the girl needs to be
wearing...

Clothes

I'm gonna show you an old newsreel

Back in 1927, the old Barkley
House

Was sold at auction to a stranger

A lady from out of state

Soon the whole town realized the
house became home to a number

Of working girls who were

Entertaining gentlemen callers
in the evening

Barkley House became the local
scandal

And none of the townsfolk ever
spoke it

Except to curse it

As if their dreams came true

A storm swept thru the state

And lightening struck the Barkley
House

And the house

And all the ladies of the night

Perished in the fire

All that was left was one piece
of the structure

The upper room somehow escaped
the destruction

I was able to get the remains
of that room

And reconstruct it here on stage
with us tonight

Just so we could see if anything
else...

Survived

We took the actual wood from the
Barkley House and built a room

That couId be opened and closed
for examination

And that's just what we're about
to do

Our folks in the audience step
right over here

What's your name?

I'm sorry Daniele

Daniele, come with me

I want you to examine the inside

In New York, this would be
a one bedroom

Right this way. I want you

To check out the inside make sure

There's nothing tricky about it

Just a bunch of walls that open
and close and nothing more. OK?

All right gentlemen step right
over here

This gentleman would you mind
standing over here?

The other gentleman can I borrow
your jacket please

If you could examine these ropes

If there's anything in this jacket

You'd like to keep

Now is the time to take it out

You see, there are no material
object

In the spirit world

So we have to provide the spirits
with objects

So they can show their presence

The jacket, these newspapers

A bell, some personal items

Some very personal items

All these things get placed
inside our empty room

Are the ropes OK?

Excellent. Good

I want you to hold on to these two

You take these two and

You're gonna tie them around
my wrists

The ends go around my wrists

Very tight with a double knot

Very, very good

Yes, yes, yes

You take this

And you take this and cross
behind me, please

Tie them in double knot very
tight on my back

Yes, that's tight

Tonight, I'm gonna be the medium

The go-Between between the spirit
world and our world

So if anything should take place
inside our room,

I want you to be sure it's the
spirits

And not me using any trickery

It's important that I can't move

The ropes go around my neck

I want you to tie them very tight
around my neck, in a double knot

Not quite as tight as you tied
around my wrists

This is the Madonna starter kit

You examined the room?

Is it free of any trickery? Fine

Why don't you stand over there

And gentlemen join me inside
the room

I want you to step up here

They're gonna hang you some ropes

Take those ropes and tie my ankles
to the bottom of the chair

The ropes go around my ankles and
the chair

With a double knot at the bottom

As quickly as you can, two knots

And after you've done that

Check the knots in my back and
my neck

Make sure they're still secure

And once you're satisfied stand
outside the room

So you can see around the sides
and behind

Making it impossible for anyone
to enter or leave the room

No self-Respecting spirit would
show themselves in the light

So we're gonna create a little
darkness with this curtain

And see if we can make the spirits

Manifest themselves inside
the room

Our next demonstration we're gonna
use a gentleman’s jacket

And show you something

You will not believe

Spirits, spirits

Take the coat

Gentlemen, step inside.
Check my arms

Are actually thru the sleeves

Ropes tied tightly at the wrists

Ropes extending out the back

Tied in a double knot

Thank you very much

Ladies, it's time

Spirits. Spirits

Remove the coat

Now is the time we invite someone
to join me inside the room

What's your name?

Jonathan

Come over here Jonathan and
have a seat

We’ don’t want you to be scared
so we're gonna blindfold you

Take your left hand and put it
on my shoulder

And your right hand on my arm

That's not my arm

May be I should be the one
that's scared

Once again we'll try to make
the spirits manifest themselves

Inside the room

What happened to your pants?

What happened to your shoes?

Nice pumps, John

Give Jonathan a big round
of applause

Cut me loose

Everybody step down here

Check the ropes in my back

Make sure they're nice and tight

Make sure the knots are still
firmly in place

Then cut me free, please

Take the scissors and
cut the ropes

Right thru, please

Gentlemen, I need you to check
the knots around my wrists

You're enjoying this too much

I'm just kidding

Everybody give our gentlemen

A big

Round of applause

I need you to stand over there

And both of you to step over there

Make sure nothing enters or
leaves that room

Our next experiment is very
strange

We found that if you close the
doors to the empty room

And listen carefully

You can hear sounds from inside

Very strange sounds

It's as if the ladies of the house
aren't aware that they're dead

Their spirits have been trapped
inside all these years

Now they're crying to be free

Let me show you what I mean

Shall we?

Everyone be still

Open it

Open it now

Open the back

Need all of you to come down,
please

Step down here. Exactly

Because now's the time I invite
all of you to join me

Inside the room

You look really thrilled about
this whole thing

This is for you. Step right inside

This is a blindfold for you.
Step inside

And this is a parting gift for you

Step right inside

Once you're inside put on your
blindfolds, please

Because we're gonna add one more
element

These curtains were taken from
the house before the fire

They're an item the spirits are
familiar with

We're gonna use them to enclose
ourselves inside the room

Hold up your hands.
We're gonna hand you the curtains.

Very good

We're gonna lift the curtains
and try to arouse the spirits

Lift the curtains

A few years ago

I realized a lifelong dream

I got to appear on Broadway
in my own show,

''Dreams and Nightmares''

Francis Ford Coppola was our
collaborator

Working with him was another
dream come true

Although he wanted me to stuff
my cheeks with cotton

And speak with a Sicilian accent

The illusions were based on my
own dreams and nightmares

We decided to end it with a
sequence that involved

A strong childhood memory

And so from the ending of
the Broadway show

Take a look at a dream
within a dream

You've been terrific

I got one last thing
I'd like to show you

I hope you like it

I hope it works

It's kinda cool

That's it

Maybe this side of the audience
will like it better

Thank you

You see I never saw snow
when I was a kid

I mean I saw it on T.V.
And in the movies

But I never saw snow for myself

When I was a little kid

I grew up in New Jersey but
every winter, my parents and

I would drive to Florida to
visit my aunt

I never got a chance to really
experience winter

Or snow for myself when
I was growing up

When I was about 8 years old

I begged my mom and dad to stay
in New Jersey for the winter

Just so I could see snow for
the first time

And they agreed

And that was the year there
was no snow

Everyday I'd pray for it to snow

No snow

I'd sit outside waiting
for it to snow

It got closer and closer
to Christmas

Still no snow

On Christmas Eve I was up
in my window still in my room

Praying for it to snow

And I fell asleep at the window

My father came and carried me
to bed

A few hours later in the middle
of the night

There was a knock
on my bedroom door

It was my mother

She said, David wake up

And I woke up

She said, David look out
the window

I looked out the window

And it was snowing

I couldn’t believe it

And I ran outside

And I laughed

And I cried

As the snow hit my face and
my hands

That was the first magic
I ever saw

When spring came and
the snow stopped

I cut up little pieces of paper

And threw them in the air
to try to...

Recreate the feeling I felt

When I saw snow for the first time

There was paper all over my house

But it was my way

Of keeping the magic alive

All year long

Even today I realize

How important it is to keep
that sense of wonder

That childlike hope

Knowing if you believe

And you want it enough

Nothing is impossible