Criss Angel Falls has made “Amystika” disappear. The endure execution of his Planet Hollywood magic-variety demo is Saturday, Oct. 15, according to a financial statement posted to the magician’s Instagram accounting only if a nighttime before. The show up opened inwards April and ran for only 26 weeks. According to the statement, it is “being converted to a touring show up for international locations.”
Angel’s main magic demo at Planet Hollywood, “Mindfreak,” continues its stream run, Wednesdays through and through Sundays at 7 p.m.
“Amystika” was a show up conceived of by Angel Falls with Francisco Franco Dragone, the illusionist who created “Mystere” at Treasure Island and “O” at Bellagio, the first of all II occupant Cirque du Soleil productions inward Las Vegas. After splitting from Cirque inwards 2000 to descriptor his have company, Dragone created “A New Clarence Shepard Day Jr. …” for Celine Dion at the Amphitheatrum Flavium in 2003. Two years later, he created “Le Reve” for Wynn Las Vegas.
Dragone Was the Obvious Choice
Angel was most comfortable on a Las Vegas arrange with Cirque du Soleil behindhand him. From 2008 to 2018, he starred in II Cirque-produced shows at the El-Aksur (“Believe” and and so “Mindfreak Live”). So when Angel sought-after(a) to create a indorse show at his possess house at Planet Hollywood, which was Cirque-like but not Cirque, Dragone was his obvious choice.
Originally titled “Mr. Smiles & Molly,” “Amystika” was a loosely autobiographic demo of how Angel Falls cut down inwards enjoy with magic as a teen. Billed as the prequel to “Criss Angel Falls Mindfreak,” it was performed after “Mindfreak” in the same theater.
Angel took the chance of “Amystika’s” chess opening to scarf bandage mud at his former co-collaborators, bragging to the R-J in April: “It takes Cirque deuce or threesome years to position together a exhibit of this magnitude. We set this unitedly with our have money inward less than sestet months from inception to our premiere.”
“Amystika” received mixed reviews and distinguished itself primarily for featuring an indoor twister that sent a reported $1K worth of detritus fast through and through the audience every night. Angel Falls appeared inward the production – as a hard disguised, “Joker”-like alter-ego of himself named Xristos – only if for the 1st few performances, before assigning the division to another actor.
Why It Closed
The star did non ply a intellect for the show’s closure, blaming only if “recent unforeseen events.” It is widely believed that ace of those events was the untimely decease of Dragone, 69, of cardiac check on Sept. 30. However, a to a greater extent of import case was probably, as the R-J reported, “failing to feel an audience on the Strip.”
The Instagram cloture note most “Amystika” was posted at 6 p.m. Friday. Notifying the public of risky news on a Fri eve is known as a “Friday tidings dump” by members of the media. It is through to avoid media scrutiny, since members of the press typically do work Monday to Friday.
Angel is mark to premiere a unexampled TV show, “Criss Angel’s Magic With the Stars” Oct. 22 on The CW, which will feature article celebrities (including Donny Osmond, Terry Fator, Debbie Gibson, Flavor Flav, and Genuwine) being trained by Angel Falls to perform daring thaumaturgy tricks. (Genuwine made headlines this week when he passed come out while rehearsing an underwater stunt for the show.)
Tickets purchased for “Amystika” performances from Oct. 19 through and through Dec. 30 may live refunded at the pilot repoint of purchase, Angel’s Instagram statement read.