{"id":1319,"date":"2011-08-15T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2011-08-15T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T08:26:25","slug":"ghost-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/ghost-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Magic to the Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/paul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1320\" title=\"paul\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/paul-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/paul-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/paul-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/paul.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reviews are in for Ghost The Musical following its West End opening, and magician Paul Kieve&#8217;s input as effects designer has been celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kieve&#8217;s work as an illusionist and magical special effects designer has been universally acclaimed in theatre, film and television across the globe. He is the only magician to advise on the Harry Potter films, and collaborated closely with legendary director Martin Scorcese on his forthcoming movie &#8220;Hugo Cabret&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best single argument for putting this film on stage is Paul Kieve&#8217;s special effects. Sam puts his hand through a door, Sam disappears into thin air, characters rise up and leave their bodies when they die.. a high concept show becomes credible.&#8221; <em>Dominic Maxwell, The Times ****<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Paul Kieve, who created the illusions, and Sharon D Clarke, playing the phoney psychic .. are two of the secret weapons of British theatre, and steal the show with their contributions &#8211; the first by stealth, the second with sass.&#8221; <em>Mark Shenton, The Stage<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our team have also been to see the show and were enchanted by the stunning illusions and gripping storyline. If you haven\u2019t yet seen Ghost The Musical it is still booking until 13th October 2012 at the Piccadilly Theatre, London.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostthemusical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.ghostthemusical.com<\/a>.<\/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%2Fghost-the-musical%2F\" addthis:title=\"Bringing+Magic+to+the+Theatre\"><\/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>The reviews are in for Ghost The Musical following its West End opening, and magician Paul Kieve&#8217;s input as effects designer has been celebrated. Paul Kieve&#8217;s work as an illusionist and magical special effects designer has been universally acclaimed in theatre, film and television across the globe. He is the only magician to advise on [&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-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319"}],"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=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}