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MAGICIAN Randy Charach says he has something in
comnion with West Vancouver audiences — both he and
them favor the multiplying rabbit act.

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By KIM PEMBERTON

News Reporter

“People love it — every time |
do the illusion girls scream," he
says of the act, where sponge rab-
bits appear to multiply.

“For me it has sentimental
value. [| learned the ifusion from
my uncle, a Los Vegas magician,
when I was five.”

The 23-year-old Vancouver man
first became interested in magic
from his uncle, who was known as
King Soloman the magician.

When Charach was !2 his uncle
died, and he began his own carcer
as a professional magician.

BIRTHDAY MAGIC

At first Charach played birthday
parties before graduating to ban-
quets.

But at the age of 15, after winn-
ing a nightclub” entertainment
competition, Charach began look-
ing towards a full-time career as a
nightclub magician.

Every Thursday, from 10 p.m.

MAGICIAN Randy Charach
is a regular West Vancouver
cabaret entertainer. Beginning
in May, his talent will also be
seen at Expo °86, where the
23-year-old performer has a
contract to wander around the
site doing card tricks.

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to midnight, Charach performs his
magic tricks at West Vancouver's
On-The-Rocks.

He is also a frequent entertainer

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**.» Charach
and one of his
assistants, who is
handcuffed,
change not only
places but
costumes, within
a three-second

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Vancouver,

“Tt was fascinated when I first
saw magic and I never grew out of

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it. It just seems to be my iife,’’ he

says.

“I'm fortunate i'm doing well at

it.”
FEATURED PERFORMER

Besides performing on the North
Shore, Charach has been featured
at the PNE for the past five years.

This year he is a featured act at
the provincial fair's Kid’s World,
and along with two assistants,
Charach plans to introduce new
acts in his illusion show cailed
Spellbound.

One of the show’s acts is called
the Metamorphosis.

In this act, Charach and one of
his assistants, who is handcuffed,
change not only places but
costumes, within a three-second
time frame.

Charach said another large scale
illusion audiences favor is the cut-
ting in half of one of his assistants.

But he’s also well-known for his
smaller illusions and magic tricks.

Charach has a six-week contract
with Expo this summer to perform
tricks all over the Expo site,

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