ENTERTAINMENT

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I GOING PLACES

WEEK OF
NOV.24-NOV.30

SPECIAL EVENTS

COMEDY

MISS KITTY'S

Long Branch Restaurant
595 N. Lapeer Road,
Oxford, Tony Hayes,
through Nov. 25,
admission, 628-6500.

PALACE

Auburn Hills, Andrew
"Dice" Clay, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 26, admission,
645-6666.

THEATER

Matt Jacobson performs Hcudini's Metamorphosis.

attamorphosis!

This magician
transforms his
New York City
nightclub show
into a family
Matt-inee for
Detroiters.

STEVEN M. HARTZ

Special to The Jewish News

other 7 year
W hen
olds were busy after

111W school with piano,
lessons and Little League,
Matt Jacobson had
something else up his sleeve
.— magic.
Today, the 18-year-old
Jacobson performs as a
magician at various
nightclubs in New York and
theaters in Detroit.
"I swallow razor blades
and pull them out on a
thread," he said of one of his
nightclub tricks. "In New
York, my tricks are a little
more gruesome than the
ones I do in Detroit at family
matinees."
Jacobson's magical success
could be due to the fact that
he was born the same day as

renowned magician Harry
Blackstone Sr. and in the
same hospital where the
great Houdini died. Or
maybe fame was in his blood
because, a decade prior to his
birth, his father, Michael,
then a 19-year-old singer
known as Mike Sheldon, had
made a name for himself
when his record, "Oh, You
Beautiful Doll," climbed the
charts and became a Top-10
song.
Last month, Jacobson flew
in from New York, via his
magic carpet, to entertain a
sell-out crowd at the Birm-
ingham Community House,
where he has appeared and
disappeared — the past six
years.
Jacobson's hour-long
matinee features about 20
tricks. "Houdini inspired
me," he said. "I do two
Houdini escapes in the show,

one from a straitjacket and
one catled
`Metamorphosis.' The
latter trick is when his
father gets chained, hand-
cuffed and locked inside a
shipping crate, and Jacobson
stands on top of it. By the
time he counts to three, his
father appears on top of the
crate and Jacobson is the one
chained, handcuffed and
locked inside.
Most of the kids reacted to
Jacobson's latest magic
show the way 4-year-old Jef-
frey Rosenfeld of Farm-
ington Hills did.
"I loved his magic tricks,"
Rosenfeld said, and was
curious to learn "how did
Magical Matt get out of the
straitjacket? I hope he didn't
hurt himself."
Jacobson also performs
Las Vegas-type illusions,
such as sawing an audience

MARQUIS THEATER
135 E. Main, Northville,
Cinderella, Nov. 25
through Dec. 30,
admission,. 349-8110.
PERFORMANCE
NETWORK
408 W. Washington, Ann
Arbor, Old Times,
through Dec. 3,
admission, 663-0681.
MASONIC TEMPLE,
Detroit, Hansel and
Gretel, Nov. 25 through
Dec. 3, admission,
874-7850.
PEANUT BUTTER
PLAYERS
New Center One
Building, The Atrium
(across from Fisher
Theater), Detroit,
Miracles, through Dec. 23,
admission, 559-6PBP.
PLAYERS GUILD
OF DEARBORN
21730 Madison, Annie,
through Dec. 3,
admission, 561-TKTS.
POWER CENTER
911 N. University, Ann
Arbor, Present Laughter,
Nov. 30 through Dec. 3,
admission, 764-0450.
SOMERSET
2801 W. Big Beaver, Troy, ,,,
Somerset Dinner Theater
at Sebastians, Fridays
and Saturdays, through
Dec. 31, admission,
643-6360.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

JOE LOUIS
Joe Louis Arena, Detroit,
Torvill and Dean and the
Russian Al'stars, Nov. 26,
admission, 645-6666.
GREENFIELD
VILLAGE
"Power in Motion,"
through January; "Fifty
Years of TV," through
Jan. 2, admission,
271-1620.

