{"id":1139,"date":"2011-03-28T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2011-03-25T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:21:47","slug":"houdini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/houdini\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of The Great Houdini!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/houdini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1144\" title=\"houdini\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/houdini-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"houdini magicians\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/houdini-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/houdini.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday saw the 137th birthday of the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Houdini\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Houdini <\/a>and 85 years after his death, plans are well underway for a brand new Broadway musical in his honour.<\/p>\n<p>The musical, set to hit Broadway next year, will star Hugh Jackman as Houdini; a magician famous for his escapology stunts such as the \u2018Chinese Water Torture Cell\u2019 escape and the \u2018Suspended Straightjacket Escape.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t wait until next year to see the tribute to Houdini&#8217;s work then you can watch a clip of the real thing below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EbvZZsYZmEY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those who want find out more about this amazing performer, The Jewish Museum has recently released a book called<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Houdini-Art-Magic-Jewish-Museum\/dp\/0300146841\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8216;Houdini: Art and Magic&#8217;<\/a>, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Houdini-Art-Magic-Jewish-Museum\/dp\/0300146841\" target=\"_blank\">available to buy on Amazon.<\/a>If you want to add a thrill to your next event we can supply <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/escapologist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Escapologists<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/illusionist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stage Illusionists<\/a> that will leave your guests astounded!<\/p>\n\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/<!--\nvar addthis_append_data = 'false';\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<div class=\"addthis_container\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\" class=\"addthis_button\" addthis:url=\"https%3A%2F%2Fmagicians.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fhoudini%2F\" addthis:title=\"In+Memory+of+The+Great+Houdini%21\"><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\"><\/script><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday saw the 137th birthday of the legendary Harry Houdini and 85 years after his death, plans are well underway for a brand new Broadway musical in his honour. The musical, set to hit Broadway next year, will star Hugh Jackman as Houdini; a magician famous for his escapology stunts such as the \u2018Chinese Water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}