{"id":36496,"date":"2021-03-19T01:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T08:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=36496"},"modified":"2021-03-18T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:07:01","slug":"can-vitaly-fool-penn-teller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2021\/03\/19\/can-vitaly-fool-penn-teller\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Vitaly fool Penn &#038; Teller?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Times Square in New York City, 2018. <em>(photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/eveningofwonders.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eveningofwonders.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Illusionist Vitaly Beckman fooled the famous Las Vegas duo Penn &amp; Teller on his first appearance on <em>Penn &amp; Teller: Fool Us<\/em>, in Season 3. Now, four years later, he will attempt to do it again \u2013 this time, filmed remotely from Vancouver, and with only a virtual audience. The episode airs March 19, 6 p.m. PST, on CW Network, and the appearance will later be posted online.<\/p>\n<p>The performance will be shot so as not to allow any camera trickery, and the secret of the act will be disclosed to a judge, who will be watching Vitaly\u2019s act, as well as listening to every word Penn &amp; Teller say to see if their guess is correct, or whether Vitaly will be receiving a second <em>Fool Us<\/em> trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Vitaly, most recently, had his show produced off-Broadway by Daryl Roth, whose producing credits include Tony winners such as <em>Kinky Boots <\/em>and<em> Indecent<\/em>. Vitaly was booked for a 16-week run at New York City\u2019s Westside Theatre, where Penn &amp; Teller started their careers in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>From making drawings and paintings spring to life to making audience\u2019s faces disappear from their own driver\u2019s licence photos, Vitaly\u2019s illusions have never been replicated anywhere in the world. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishindependent.ca\/a-wonder-full-evening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jewishindependent.ca\/a-wonder-full-evening<\/a> and other articles on the <em>JI<\/em> website for more on Vitaly.)<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/vitaly.beckman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facebook.com\/vitaly.beckman<\/a> for news of what happened on March 19, if you can\u2019t watch <em>Penn &amp; Teller: Fool Us<\/em> that night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Square in New York City, 2018. (photo from eveningofwonders.com) Illusionist Vitaly Beckman fooled the famous Las Vegas duo Penn &amp; Teller on his first appearance on Penn &amp; Teller: Fool Us, in Season 3. Now, four years later, he will attempt to do it again \u2013 this time, filmed remotely from Vancouver, and with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[787],"tags":[20386,20387,8072,20385,7435],"class_list":["post-36496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-film","tag-cw-network","tag-illusion","tag-magic","tag-penn-teller","tag-vitaly-beckman"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}